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Asha has close to 20 years of principal investment experience across private equity, credit and venture capital. Over the course of her career, she has underwritten over US$15 billion transactions. Her particular focus as a generalist investor is creating new and growing business units and entering new product strategies and markets.
Asha co-founded Anabeya in July 2023 and formally launched in October 2023. Previously, Asha served as Chief Investment Officer at Conduit Capital, where she lead product incubation and strategic growth. Prior to this, she was at VĂ€rde Partners, building a pioneering research and execution team, expanding global operations, and driving ESG and philanthropic initiatives.
Earlier, at Accenture, Asha was part of IMACâa mobile-centric business unit that became a major revenue driver. She led M&A, strategic investments, and joint ventures. Before that, she co-founded Avetio, a mobile tech startup, taking it from concept to revenue and securing angel funding.
Her career began in real estate private equity at Lehman Brothers, followed by a leadership role at HSBC, where she managed a $200M mandate to build a global direct investment portfolio. Throughout her journey, Asha has consistently combined innovation, strategy, and impact across industries and markets.
Asha holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics from the London School of Economics. She is Capital Markets Group Co-Chair at Urban Ovation, a community focused on creating solutions for a better built environment. Asha was a member of the global real estate investment committee at VaÌrde Partners, GP board and IC observer at PiLabs, Chair and voting member of The Conduit EIS Impact Fund, voting member for the RuralWorks investment committee. She was a strategic advisor to Tidal Impact, a global impact management and investment firm and The Conduit impact investing champion from 2021-2024, for which she co-created and hosted a podcast series called âHumanising Investmentâ, sharing stories of institutional investing entrepreneurs including Sir Ronald Cohen and Liesel Pritzker Simmons. Asha is a member of Nexus Global, a network of next gen philanthropists, impact investors and social entrepreneurs.