Sonu Bhasin

Sonu Bhasin is one of the early and senior women professionals in the industry. In her career of over 30 years, she set up and managed large businesses, and diverse teams, across financial and non-financial sectors in India and overseas.

Sonu led various businesses in senior leadership positions during her corporate career. She began as a TAS (Tata Administrative Service) Officer with the Tata Group and spent 13 years with the Group before becoming a Banker. As a Banker, she was a Director at ING Barings, President Axis Bank, Group President Yes Bank before going back to the Tatas as COO Tata Capital Limited.

Sonu is an Independent Director on Boards of well-known and reputed domestic and multinational companies.

She now focuses on family businesses and is the Founder of FAB – Families And Business. She is a family business historian and is the Editor-in-Chief of Families & Business magazine – India’s only stand – alone magazine that addresses the concerns of family business owners/promoters/entrepreneurs. Sonu has worked extensively with both, the patriarchs and the inheritors of family businesses and has enabled them to focus on building multi-generational businesses.

Sonu is also a Business Author and her first book The Inheritors – Stories of Entrepreneurship and Success, published by Penguin Random House, is a bestseller in the business books category. Her second book, Unstoppable – Kuldip Singh Dhingra and the Rise of Berger Paints, published by Penguin Random House is the biography of the owner and promoter of Berger Paints. Sonu is also a columnist with The Economic Times, the leading financial daily of India.

She has been named as one of the Global 100 most Influential individuals for family enterprises in 2020.

Sonu has a degree in B.Sc (Hons) Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University and a MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.