Bhavna is a global business leader and has extensive experience in advising C-Suites and boards in making financial decisions that create long term value for all stakeholders, keeping core purpose and sustainable values aligned with profitability. As an independent director, Bhavna is a trusted advisor to companies with a proven ability to analyze their growth strategy, deal with complexity, enhance their capital raising initiatives, M&A opportunities, strategic alliances and artificial intelligence and business transformation strategy.
She has a proven track record of leveraging her relationships with global public market investors, sovereign wealth funds and global private capital providers to diversify pools of liquidity. Her global experience, extensive network, cultural dexterity, and ability to be a sound advisor results in her reputation for integrity, accountability and excellence.
She has led multi billion dollars of private financings, project and structured finance, lPOs and raised debt and equity capital on major global stock exchanges, i.e. NASDAQ, NYSE, NSE & BSE, LSE, Euronext, HKSE and SGX. She has lived and worked in New York, London, Hong Kong and Mumbai. She has a unique blend of deep transactional and cross-border experience as a lawyer, banker, investor and now an entrepreneur.
Currently Bhavna is the Chief Operating Officer of Tifin.ai which is an innovator in technology and AI solving problems at scale in the wealth management industry. At Tifin, she is building companies powered by conversation Ai offering intelligence as a service and transforming financial futures. She is leading the mandate to build companies powered by Ai in India as well as the U.S. Previously, Bhavna was Managing Director and heads Exits and Capital Markets at Everstone Capital Advisors, a leading institutional platform in SE Asia and India with $6bn in AUM across private equity, real estate, credit, green infrastructure and venture. She has a 23+ year career in corporate finance, starting off as an M&A and capital markets lawyer at Davis Polk and Wardwell and Paul Weiss, respectively, in New York and London, followed by a career as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong and India after which she ran Citi India’s Capital Markets business raising more than 30bn+ for India’s C-suite and Companies. She was also the Chair of the Diversity Committee for Citigroup’s India business and assisted in drafting the Indian laws on Women Directors on Boards.
Bhavna currently serves on the boards of Just Dial Limited, (JUSTDIAL) (google search of India), Kinara Capital Limited and the Drama School, Mumbai. She serves on Audit Committees, Corporate Social Responsibility Committees, Stakeholder Relationship Committees and Compensation and Renumeration Committees.
Bhavna studied law at the National Law School, Bangalore and Columbia University in New York. She lives between Mumbai and Boulder, Co with her young daughter, Ahilya, and is committed to creating a better world for future generations.
