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About the partner
Sandhya Vasudevan is also a Strategic External Partnerships and Funding Committee Member at SVP India. She currently serves as a Governor on the Board of IIIT, Delhi; a strategic advisory and Business Management Consultant with several start-ups – including one from Israel. She has been a Global leader with Deutsche Bank, Thomson Reuters, AXA / Guardian Royal Exchange, and the TVS Group. Her experience of over three decades covers Financial Services; Off-Shoring / Shared Services; Operations; Technology; Risk, Regulatory Governance; Strategy, Innovation & Digitalisation, and Social Impact initiatives across India and Asia Pac.
Strategy, innovation, business transformation, and digitalization have been part of Sandhya’s remit throughout her career. Sandhya has been personally committed to social causes, both professionally and personally. At Deutsche Bank, she established the CSR program and was an active sponsor of various NGOs cutting across education, healthcare, and environmental issues. She was a NASSCOM Foundation Trustee and the CSR Chair with Swiss Re. She is a Core Committee member of Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital & Research center.
Sandhya has a Master’s in History; Marketing is an Independent Director with IOD and the Ministry of Corp Affairs. She is involved with Sonders Connect, which supports women start-ups, and AnitaB.org advisory body supporting women in technology. She is also a member of the Young President’s Organisation Gold & TiE Bangalore.
My Journey at SVP
Partner since 2018
SVP has been a wonderful experience – it is a platform to get engaged.
Initially, it was to understand what was happening in the NGO sector so that I could cross-pollinate with what I was doing at work. This was done by attending the partner sessions.
Then I joined a couple of groups – healthcare, etc. I found it very time intensive and it gave me a good idea of the challenges of scaling. Which I again took back to my workplace.
Last year I became part of the India-level Fast Pitch program – as part of steerco, the framework for judging, coaching NGOs, and getting more people to attend. Currently one of the lead partners’ for Make a Difference.