MUMBAI: Devashish Dasgupta began his career at Arthur Andersen in the business a& tax advisory services in 1994. In 2024, he is corporate relations director & member of the executive committee at spirits major Diageo India, a position he took up in early December 2024.It his second innings with the firm.  He has been on the Ficci national executive committee for the past four years or so.

Along the way, he has been mainly involved in corporate, government affairs and relations over the past 34 years. He even  founded a management and entry strategy consulting firm Corporate Catalyst which he ran for 10 years from 1995 to 2005.

Dasgupta then moved on to APCO as managing director of the public affairs & government consulting firm for three years. What followed was a two-year stint with Diageo india as executive director corporate relations. The next placement was at Google India as country head public policy and advocacy for eight months.

A little over two-year assignments each with MNCs like Yum Restaurants, SAB Miller, GSK Consumer Healthcare, came next in a corporate relations and government affairs role.

Just prior to re-joining Diageo, Devashish was at Hindustan Unilever as corporate and government affairs head for a good five years.