Bala Deshpande
Senior Managing Director
Economics and Business Administration
Quadrangle
India
Biography
Bala Deshpande is working (since 2008) as Senior Managing Director with New Enterprise Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd based in Mumbai. Prior to this, she was Director of Investments at ICICI Ventures where she had been since 2000. At ICICI Venture, she used her operational experience to identify opportunities for investment and to play a strategic role in shaping the future of investee companies. She launched leading e-commerce ventures like Traveljini and BillJunction and was a Director at Subhiksha, Pantaloon Retail, Air Deccan, Nagarjuna Construction, Welspun, TechProcess Solutions and Info Edge (India) Ltd. Her private equity experience has seen the full cycle from nurturing young companies to executing over ten exits including IPO, buy-back, strategic sale, and capital market divestments. Prior to ICICI Venture, Ms. Deshpande worked with leading multi national companies such as Bestfoods, Cadburys, and ICI. She was a part of the Strategic Planning Team at Bestfoods and was also nominated for the Women Leadership Forum held at Bestfoods, New York. Ms. Deshpande has a master's degree in Economics and Business Administration from Jamnalal Bajaj, Mumbai.
Research Interest
business development
