The Women's World Banking Team

Sanjay Sehgal

Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, WAM

Bio

Sanjay has been in venture capital and private equity for over 30 years.

He was a Partner and member of the investment committee at Symphony Capital Partners (Asia) (f.k.a Schroder Capital Partners) which managed in excess of US$860 million. While at SCP, Sanjay was based in Hong Kong and Singapore. He represented the Funds’ interests on the Boards and committees of several portfolio companies, both listed and unlisted, across the world. Sanjay has served as the elected Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Secretary of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association. He is an accomplished speaker and has spoken at over 40 different private equity and healthcare conferences across the world.

He is the founder of East West Capital Partners, a private equity advisory firm operating out of Singapore, Bangalore, Penang, London and Princeton which is focused on life sciences and healthcare. Before joining SCP, Sanjay was a Manager in the Boston office of LEK Consulting, an international strategy consulting firm.  He also worked as a researcher at GTE Laboratories (now Verizon Corporation) in Waltham, Massachusetts. Sanjay obtained his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and a Master of Science (M.S.) from Columbia University, New York. He received his MBA, with distinction, in finance and multinational management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.