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Anju Patwardhan
Board Diretor, Fintech VC
H2O.ai, GIB, Xapo Bank
Anju Patwardhan serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the boards of Gulf International Bank (Saudi Arabia), Xapo Bank (Gibraltar), Upgrade Inc. (San Francisco), H2O.ai (Singapore and Deep Future Analytics.ai (USA). She is also on the Global Advisory Council of Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI) at Stanford University.
She is a globally experienced Fintech Venture Capital (VC) investor and a former banking executive. She has lived and worked in Singapore, San Francisco, and India. She is one of the 22 global leaders featured in McKinsey’s book titled The Journey of Leadership, published in 2024. She is an alumna of IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University.
She was Managing Director at CE Innovation Capital VC Fund, with an AUM of over USD 1 billion, until October 2024. She has invested in over 75 Fintech companies and Funds in the US, the UK and Israel. Before that, she worked in banking for over two decades at Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), based in Singapore in senior leadership roles.
She has been on the World Economic Forum (WEF) fintech steering committee and was a member of its Global Future Council on Blockchain. She was a guest faculty member for the FinTech course at Stanford GSB and served on the e-Residency advisory board of the Government of Estonia.
