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LEADER TALK: Strategic Integration - HR as a Catalyst for M&A Value Realization | Tina Vas, CHRO, Sagility

nasscom Insights

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September 1, 2025

Leader Talk

"Successful HR leadership in M&A is about balancing strategic foresight with human empathy. By fostering trust, ensuring clarity, and championing cultural integration, HR can play a transformative role in turning acquisitions into sustainable growth stories."

Q1. While considering mergers and acquisitions, how are you evaluating and leveraging strengths from both organizations in order to build a more scalable and future-ready workforce?

While considering mergers and acquisitions, our focus has been on creating a deliberate and balanced integration that draws on the strongest capabilities of both Sagility and BroadPath. From the start, we set out to identify complementary strengths-not to compare, but to combine and to build a unified model that enhances employee experience, operational efficiency, and scalability.

Sagility contributed global scale, robust processes, and the infrastructure needed to amplify and adapt innovations for a wider market.
BroadPath, with its pioneering remote-first work model, the Beehive gamified engagement platform, and deep expertise in offshoring practices, brought proven innovations that set new benchmarks for agility and employee engagement.
Together, these complementary strengths create a powerful foundation for delivering at scale while remaining agile and innovative.

We undertook comprehensive capability assessments, blending data analytics with leader insights to map current skills, potential scalability, and future-readiness. Cross-functional integration teams were established to align talent deployment, role harmonization, and benefit structures executed with transparency and cultural sensitivity to preserve trust.

By deliberately embedding the best practices from both organizations whether it’s scaling BroadPath’s remote engagement methods through Sagility’s infrastructure or extending Sagility’s global reach to BroadPath’s innovative models we are shaping a workforce that is globally agile, digitally enabled, and future ready. This approach ensures that the combined strengths of both organizations deliver not just immediate synergies, but long-term competitive advantage.

Q2. As acquisitions remain a key growth strategy in the technology space, what lessons would you like to share with other CHROs about leading HR through acquisitions to achieve both strategic and human capital goals?

From an HR leadership perspective, managing acquisitions successfully requires a deep commitment to ownership, communication, and people-centric integration. A foundational lesson is to secure strong ownership and buy-in from business leaders who will anchor the acquisition within the broader organization. Without that, efforts to drive cultural alignment and integration often falter.

Culture cannot be underestimated. It’s important to approach M&A as a journey akin to a marriage, blending diverse cultures, respecting differences, and acting as a change agent while maintaining empathy throughout the process. We must actively communicate the ‘why’ behind the acquisition clearly and repeatedly to reduce anxiety and ambiguity. Transparency about goals, expected benefits, and new ways of working helps build trust and engagement.

HR must also focus on a long-term view of success. It is not enough to celebrate early; consistent momentum over 12 to 24 months is critical to embedding strategic and human capital goals. Having a structured roadmap and ongoing measurement through KPIs such as talent retention, leadership alignment, and adoption of new practices is crucial.

Ultimately, successful HR leadership in M&A is about balancing strategic foresight with human empathy. By fostering trust, ensuring clarity, and championing cultural integration, HR can play a transformative role in turning acquisitions into sustainable growth stories.

Q3. What are Sagility’s core CSR focus areas, and how do they align with your business values?

At Sagility, moving in step with society is a core part of our culture, reflecting our commitment to inclusive growth, community empowerment, and contributing to ethical healthcare transformation. Our CSR strategy is anchored in three themes: Tech-Enabled Skilling, Inclusive Access to Healthcare, and Local Community Projects each aligned with our business values and designed to create meaningful, measurable impact. These dedicated focus areas also enable us to drive impact assessment with greater precision, ensuring that our efforts remain both targeted and sustainable.

Volunteering at Sagility stands as a cornerstone of our purpose-driven culture, fostering empathy, collaboration, and community impact. It is enabled through a strong ecosystem of recognition programs like VolunCheers, supported further by a formal Volunteering Leave Policy. Flexible models allow employees to participate in both virtual and in-person formats, making it easier to contribute meaningfully alongside their professional commitments. Over the past year, Sagility achieved its highest global workforce participation in volunteering, with 55% of our global workforce actively engaged, demonstrating deep alignment with our values and commitment to societal good.

Our newly launched CSR Ambassador Program, where two senior leaders champion initiatives across each of the three CSR themes, empowers employees to co-create region-specific impact while also providing leadership with a sense of contribution and success. Signature campaigns like Ride for a Cause and Leaders as Teachers further strengthen this culture of engagement. In India, volunteering is deeply embedded in employee experience, with thousands contributing to school upgrades, health awareness drives, and youth development programs.

Across geographies, Sagility’s volunteering is tailored to local needs from coastal cleanups and HIV awareness in the Philippines, to school renovations and cancer awareness in Jamaica, beach cleanups and donation drives in Colombia, and fundraising for shelters and food banks in North America. In the US, where our workforce is 100% work-from-home, virtual volunteering setups have enabled employees to stay engaged and contribute meaningfully in the post-COVID era.

What sets Sagility apart is its employee-led, locally relevant approach. Regional CSR Champions and geo SPOCs co-create initiatives that resonate with cultural contexts and community needs. Every employee is encouraged to contribute at least eight hours annually to volunteering, reinforcing a shared sense of responsibility and purpose. This decentralized model fosters ownership, empathy, and sustained impact, making volunteering a powerful driver of both social change and employee engagement. With over 63,000 hours contributed globally in FY’25 and a projected 54,000+ beneficiaries in FY’26, Sagility continues to scale its purpose-driven impact across borders.

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