Maninder Bhandari

Director, Derby Group

Maninder Bhandari has 35+ years of multi–national experience across Latin America and the Caribbean, Miami, Hong Kong, Singapore and the MENA region in regional leadership roles, board positions and as the CEO of multiple businesses. Throughout his years at HSBC, ABN AMRO and the Bank of New York Mellon in regional and global positions, he has seen multiple downturns and crises yet has steered the businesses to strategic growth. At the Bank of New York Mellon, Maninder had responsibility for over 30 countries in the MENA region. 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 and 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, he was also partner and director in a group providing non–core back office services. This group now has 13 companies and 3,000 staff. Maninder sold his interests to a US-based Nasdaq listed multi–national. Concurrently he was an advisor to an UAE financial institution and spearheaded a team to set up a new onshore bank in the UAE to promote trade with Africa and Eastern Europe – the new frontiers of growth. Currently, as CEO of a four company group, Maninder has led the group to financial stability despite trying circumstances requiring a strategic turn around. He 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 and continues to be a speaker at and chair of trade conferences. Maninder is a Singaporean citizen and has an MBA. 

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