Advisors

Bhandari is the principal founder and a leading shareholder of London-based Monument Bank, which is a digital-first platform focused on providing financial services (with a Bank of England full-banking license) providing digital access to high-value services and technology solutions in various geographies around the world. Prior to founding Monument, Bhandari was senior partner of Apollo Global Management and senior partner and managing director of Apollo’s India vehicles: AGM India Advisors and AION Capital Partners.

He began his investing career at the Harvard Management Company (which manages the endowment of Harvard University) and was later a member of a Harvard-affiliated team providing advice on privatization, enterprise restructuring and the sourcing of foreign direct investment in Russia and other emerging markets. Mr. Bhandari is also currently active in various charitable and social impact initiatives including as strategic advisor to Kailash Satyarthi, chairman of the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation, and co-founder of the Freedom Fellows Scholarship Program.

Bhandari is a graduate with distinction of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mech Eng, S.B. ’87) and the Harvard Business School (MBA ’92). He has published numerous articles and speaks frequently regarding banking, fintech, macro-economic, finance and investment topics. He lives in London, England with his wife and two daughters.

Dr. Anthony Dias is a highly experienced physician executive with a progressive 28-year track record of leading healthcare innovation at the intersection of public health, healthcare management and policy, informatics and clinical medicine. He developed and implemented business strategies to improve patient safety, healthcare quality, access to care, and to reduce costs in the national healthcare markets.

Dr. Dias has been actively involved with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Alumni Association since 2004, serving in leadership roles including President of the Alumni Council, Appointed Director on the Harvard Alumni Association Board, and currently as a member of the Alumni Giving Committee. He has led statewide initiatives in advocacy, patient safety, health policy, community health equity, and data-driven performance improvement.

He has held executive leadership roles at Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations, advancing business informatics to improve quality, access, and cost of care. His experience spans community health operations, mental health consulting, and psychiatric crisis care, and he began his career in India as a healthcare entrepreneur and physician. Dr. Dias holds an MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University Health Services, earned his medical degree from Goa Medical College & Hospital, and completed his psychiatry residency in Goa, India.

Dr. Rati Godrej graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine in 1988. She completed her training in Internal Medicine from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She has been living in Mumbai, India since 1991. Her professional experience in India has included being a clinical consultant for the U.S. Consulate Medical Unit in Mumbai India from 1994 till 2014 and a deputy medical director for the Asian Heart Hospital from 2009 to 2011. She has served on the Ethics Committee of the Tata Memorial Hospital and served as a board member for IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health (ICTPH), a public health organization committed to creating innovations to improve the access and quality of health care in rural India. She is a trustee for the Foundation for Research in Community Health. She is also on the board of trustees for the Framjee Cawasjee Institute in Mumbai, an institute founded in 1862 which provides financial assistance to low-income students in local schools and colleges, to support them in achieving their educational and professional goals.

Dr. Swati Piramal, Vice Chairperson, Piramal Group, is amongst India’s leading scientists and industrialists whose contributions to innovations, new medicines and public health services have touched many lives. As the Director of Piramal Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Piramal Group, Dr. Piramal is deeply involved in creating innovative solutions and establishing avenues that promote primary health care in rural India through Health Management and Research Institute (HMRI) – a mobile health service, women’s empowerment projects and enabling transformation of India’s education system across public schools to unlock the potential of the young leaders of tomorrow through the Piramal Gandhi Fellowship Programme.

Dr. Piramal founded the Gopikrishna Piramal Memorial Hospital in Mumbai and was instrumental in launching several pan-India public health campaigns against chronic diseases, osteoporosis, malaria, TB, epilepsy and polio. She has served as the first woman president of India’s Apex Chamber of Commerce (ASSOCHAM), and has served on the Scientific Advisory Council and the Council of Trade of the Prime Minister of India. Dr. Piramal is the Dean’s Advisor to Harvard Business School and Public Health and she holds a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Harvard Chan School and a Medical Degree (M.B.B.S) from Mumbai University.

Anupa Sahney is the founder of Origami Consultants, a small specialized consulting company focusing on change management and strategic advisory work. She started her consulting career with McKinsey & Co in 1993 and then moved on to do advisory and entry strategy work for international companies such as AIG and Capital One. In 2001, she saw a clear need for more implementation-based consulting services and started Origami Consultants to serve clients in a more longer-term and impactful way. Anupa serves on a number of Company Boards and is also a member of the advisory board for the Harvard South Asia Institute and the BALCO Medical Centre. Anupa is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW), has a strong academic interest in Indian art history and is a keen tennis player.

Sheila Sarma is president of the SRS Family Foundation which focuses on improving the lives of disadvantaged youth by supporting a broad range of programs on health, education, spirituality, and the arts. She previously worked as a researcher at Gynuity Health Projects, an organization dedicated to ensuring individuals have access to safe and effective reproductive and maternal health care. Sheila graduated from Wellesley College and earned her master’s degree from Harvard Chan School.

Padmini Sekhsaria is a principal at the Narotam Sekhsaria Family Office where she leads several investment and philanthropic activities. She oversees businesses in technology, education, FMCG, agriculture, construction materials, commodities and financial services, that directly employ over 3600 employees. Her development experience in youth education, health and vocational skilling spans over 20 years. Padmini heads the Narotam Sekhsaria Foundation, a family philanthropy that is engaged in health, education and livelihood programmes, with interventions in rural and urban areas focused on community health, preventive and promotive health care, capacity building, policy advocacy and systemic change. In 2002, she started the Salaam Bombay Foundation, today one of the largest school-based preventive health programs in India. She serves on various boards of other non-profit organizations, including Ambuja Cement Foundation, Vassar College, and the India Youth Fund in New York. Padmini is an alumna of the London School of Economics and has an MSc. in Financial Economics.