Senior Private Banker turned entrepreneur/ a transformative business leader having 20 years of experience in Private Banking with banks such as HSBC Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and HDFC Bank.
A Senior Vice President with HSBC Private Bank, Sanchita co-founded Blue Edge along with the top team in HSBC Private Bank in 2015. Blue Edge, now one of the largest family offices in India, is essentially an India focused Multi Family Investment Office, Blue Edge is an ‘execution’ platform, an AMFI registered mutual fund distributor that deals in execution and distribution of mutual fund products, consulting on various corporate banking and business requirements for its clients, sourcing merger and acquisition transactions etc. Blue Edge team works alongside the respective family to assist them in achieving their core objectives by providing a robust investment execution architecture. An entrepreneur at heart who learnt the ropes of the financial industry from a career spanning over two decades in a variety of roles across both domestic and multinational banks, she is passionate about capital markets and investments with a clear view of applying theories and achieving results in the real world.
Never shy off sharing her learnings with the world she regularly participates as a panelist in various media channels, both financial and general (NDTV, ETNow, BBC etc.), as well in various intelligentsia forums of organisations like ISB, DMA, FICCI, AIMA etc. She has been recognised as one of the ‘Entrepreneurs of the Year 2020″ by CEO Insights, a notable business magazine and felicitated as a Leading Top 100 Women in Finance in India 2020 by AIWMI.
The sheer drive to increase financial literacy and understanding has her regularly participating as presenter and panelist with learning facilitation and consulting organisations like White Ladder, WCRC, Open Brackets etc. She has now founded her second company in 2022 named Talk The Walk, a pro-bono consulting firm focused on Mentoring young men and women through the nuances of Corporate Life, The Important of Saving and Financial independence, Personal Branding, Interview Preparedness and Communication Skills.
A business consultancy and a strategy leader for corporates, she has also been actively involved in Philanthropy as a formal financial goal for the UHNI and Contribution of Wealth to Society and Nation Building. She is passionate about the trickle-down effect of wealth creation through capital market participation and its role in the empowerment of youth and women. She conducts major pro-bono workshops in this arena.
She is a proud mother of a 15 year old, is an avid reader, traveler, yoga and theatre enthusiast and a PADI certified scuba diver.