Sanjay Sehgal Founder and Managing Partner
East West Capital Partners
Sanjay Sehgal is a founder and Managing Partner & CEO of East West Capital Partners (EWCP), a private equity firm based out of Singapore and Bangalore. EWCP seeks to invest only in the healthcare industry, and focuses on late-stage expansion capital and buyout opportunities throughout the Asia Pacific region, with an emphasis on India.
Prior to EWCP, Sanjay was a Partner and member of the investment committee at Symphony Capital Partners (Asia) (f.k.a Schroder Capital Partners), a private equity firm, which managed in excess of US$860 million in institutional money aimed at development capital and buy-outs throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Sanjay joined Schroder Capital Partners in 1994 in Hong Kong and then moved to Singapore in 1997 to help establish the group's presence there. While at Schroder Capital, Sanjay represented the Funds' interests on the board and committees of several portfolio companies, both listed and unlisted, throughout the region and focused on investments in the healthcare sector. Prior to joining SCP in 1994, Sanjay was a Manager in the Boston office of LEK Consulting, an international strategy consulting firm focusing on management strategy and mergers & acquisitions. He has also worked as a researcher at GTE Laboratories in Waltham, Massachusetts (now Verizon Corporation).
Sanjay has served as the elected Hon. Treasurer and Hon. Secretary of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association.
He obtained his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and his Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, New York. He received his MBA, with distinction, in finance and multinational management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.