Maninder Bhandari

Director, Derby Group

Mr Maninder Bhandari has 40+ years of multinational experience gathered from his work in Latin America/Caribbean (Sao Paulo, Brazil), North America (Miami), Far East (Hong Kong & Singapore) & Middle East/Africa (Dubai) with regional leadership roles, board positions and as CEO of multiple businesses.  

Via his years at HSBC, ABN AMRO and The Bank of New York Mellon in regional and global positions – he had specific responsibility for the respective regions, Mr Bhandari has seen multiple downturns and crisis (Thailand, Indonesia, Argentina, USA) yet steered the businesses to strategic growth. At the Bank of New York Mellon, Mr Bhandari had regional responsibility of over 30 countries in Middle East & Africa.

His quest for inorganic growth and leadership, led him to be a founding partner of a Private Equity fund, investing in mid cap companies in the IT/Education/Health care sectors. He was a board member of the investee companies prior to his sale of his interests in the fund. Whilst growing the fund via raising growth capital and investing in cross border deals, Mr Bhandari was also partner/director in a group providing non core back office services, which group now has 13 companies and 5000 staff. Mr Bhandari sold his interests to a USA Nasdaq listed multinational.

Concurrent to the above, Mr Bhandari was an advisor to an UAE financial institution and spear headed a team to set up a new on shore bank in the UAE to promote trade with Africa & East Europe – the new frontiers of growth.

Subsequently, as CEO of a 4-company group, Mr Bhandari nursed the group to financial stability despite trying circumstances which required a strategic turn around.  

He currently is an independent advisor to Ernst & Young as well a Director on multiple entities involving FinTech, Back Office Services, International Operations.

Mr Bhandari enjoys public speaking and has written articles (published in finance magazines and in daily newspapers) on wide ranging commercial subjects. He remains on the editorial board of a global trade publication based out of London (UK) and continues to be a Speaker/Chair of trade conferences.

Mr Bhandari is a Citizen of Singapore and has an MBA. 

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