Sonu Bhasin

Sonu Bhasin is part of the Founding Team of FAB – Families and Business. She is also an Advisor to Boards/Top Management, and Non-Executive Director on Boards and has her own consulting firm BlueWaters Advisorie.

Currently, she is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of PNB Metlife India, Max Speciality Films, Whirlpool of India, Mahindra First Choice Services Limited, Vodafone Mobile Services Limited, Sutlej Textiles and Industries Limited and Transcorp International Limited. Additionally, she is on the advisory board of CIEL: Centre for Investment Education and Learning, Dharma Life and My Mobile Magazine.

Ms. Bhasin has headed the retail bank and branch banking for two of the top five private sector banks in India as President, Axis Bank and Group President, Yes Bank. Her last employment was as Chief Operating Officer at Tata Capital overseeing Travel Forex and Cards | e-Nxt Financials Limited. Tata Capital Limited is a subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited.

Her foray into banking was as one of the first private bankers in India and she headed the North and East regions of the country for ING Barings Private Bank. Before that, she started her career as a TAS Officer with the TATA Group. She worked as a TAS officer for 13 years wherein she worked in multiple roles in Tata Housing Development Company Limited, Rallis India, Tata Press and National Council of Applied Economic Research.

Subsequently, she joined ING Barings Private Bank & ING Vysya Bank and worked there as Head: Investment and Third Party Product Development and Head Marketing: Wealth Management. She then joined Axis Bank and worked there in multiple roles such as: Senior Vice President and Business Head of Wealth Management, Private Banking and Personal Investment Products; President Retail Financial Services and President Retail Banking. She then joined Yes Bank as Group President – Branch Banking before joining Tata Capital.

She has spent a large part of her professional life working closely with the Owners of Family Businesses. As a Banker she helped many Family Business Owners work their way successfully within the family related complexities. She has personally worked with Family Business Owners and helped resolve matters such as bringing the Inheritors to the Business, organizing the Governance of the Business and the Family and dealing with cultural issues in the Families. She is also author of The Inheritors -Stories of Entrepreneurship and Success – Published by Penguin Random House. It is scheduled to release in November 2017.