Emmy Silva holds a graduation degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering in Trivandrum. He boasts of over 40 years of experience in varied engineering, sales and purchase with multinationals and Indian companies.

Silva has worked with the US multinational EVEREADY as part of the sales and purchase team of the Managerial cadre. He also has 15 years of experience working with India's leading language publication Malayala Manorama to his name, where he specialized in setting up systems and ERP implementation.

He was responsible for major cost-cutting measures at Hyderabad’s Administrative Staff College. Silva negotiated with international suppliers of newsprint through consortium, ensuring competitive pricing and reliability, and maintained quality and consistency of supply in times of shortage.