Sandeep Ghosh
Chief Executive Officer
Overview
As Trilegal’s CEO, Sandeep helps execute the firm’s strategic priorities, build stronger client relationships, strengthen alignment across practices and offices, and support innovation and growth. His focus spans across private equity and the broader banking and financial services ecosystem, including insurance, NBFCs, payments, and wealth and asset management, as well as strategic relationships across investment banks and key cross-border corridors.
With over 3 decades of experience, Sandeep has driven transformative growth across markets by integrating strategy, innovation, and operational excellence.
He brings diverse experience from the banking and finance ecosystem, having worked across multiple global markets. His roles have spanned business development, brand marketing, strategy, and general management across FMCG, Banking, Insurance, Consulting and Payments.
Before joining Trilegal, Sandeep was Visa’s Group Country Manager India & South Asia. He was responsible for the organisation’s growth strategy and market leadership across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, and Bhutan. Sandeep focused on Visa’s growth and expansion through innovative strategies to open new business avenues, help build and scale a trusted payments ecosystem, and drive financial inclusion by developing a less-cash society across each market.
Prior to Visa, Sandeep led EY’s Financial Services Consulting practice in India. He has also served as Managing Director at Bharti AXA Life Insurance and Country Manager at AXA India, where he helped build a strong franchise for the brand.
Sandeep was the Asia Pacific Head of Commercial Banking at ANZ and RBS. He spent nearly a decade at Citibank, heading Commercial Banking in India, prior to which he was the Category Head – Marketing, South Asia with PepsiCo.
Education
- B.Com (Accountancy & Financial Management), Sydenham College, University of Mumbai
- MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Recognition
- Recipient of the AXA Chairman’s Award (2014) for Outstanding Contributions
- Elected by fellow industry CEOs as founding member of the Life Insurance Committee constituted by IRDAI [Insurance Regulator]
- IIM Ahmedabad Dean’s List for Academic Excellence
