Ms. Debanshi Basu
Nominee Director
Ms. Debanshi Basu has over 21 years of experience encompassing private equity, investment banking and audit and assurance services. She serves as a Partner at Baring Private Equity India, and leads investments and portfolio management in Financial Services, FinTech, Agri-inputs and other sectors. She has been actively involved with investments and portfolio management of companies such as SK Finance, Nivara Home Finance, Acko, Manappuram Finance and Muthoot Fincorp, among others. She is currently a Board member of SK Finance, Nivara Home Finance, Nehat Technologies, Infrasoft Technologies and has served on other Boards in the past. She joined Baring in 2009.
In her prior position, Debanshi was part of the original team of the Investment Banking practice at Goldman Sachs in Mumbai, where she spent 6 years scross sectors like healthcare, general manufacturing, large industrial, IT and commercial banks. She was involved in execution of several M&A and fund-raising efforts both in the equity and debt markets.Prior to this, she was with Ernst & Young, involved in conducting statutory audits and internal control assessments for mid-cap listed and private companies. Debanshi is a qualified Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Osmania University.