Jury Member

Dimple Sahni

Managing Director at Multi Asset Impact Investing

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EUROPE

DIMPLE SAHNI

Netherlands

A global investor and board member who has worked across finance, social entrepreneurship and is a long time advocate of diversity, inclusion and sustainability.

Originally from India, Dimple is an experienced investment professional – with over 20 years of experience in impact investing, investment banking, technology, emerging markets, and venture capital – who began her career in finance working for Goldman Sachs. She then launched a social enterprise focused on education, Epylon, which was later sold to Accenture. After working at L Capital Partners in its technology, energy and environment practice where she was a Kauffman Fellow, she shifted to impact investing at the Omidyar Network, Pierre Omiydar’s philanthropic investment arm. She continued her impact investing career with Unilever Corporate Ventures on its exploration of emerging Asia. Most recently she was a fund principal at the Hattery, an early stage impact investing and design firm which was sold to Google.

Currently, Dimple Sahni is a Managing Director Impact Funds Portfolios at Anthos Fund and Asset Management, a values-based asset manager, rooted in a century old single family office. She is responsible for originating investments, managing relationships, and helping to execute strategies for the fund portfolios at Anthos Asset Management dedicated to impact investing across all asset classes including private, listed and real assets. In this defacto Mixed Asset Impact CIO role, she leads the firm's strategy on impact portfolio construction and asset allocation. In addition to the many Limited Partner and Impact Advisory roles within her own portfolio, Dimple also serves on the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation in support of 100% mission-aligned investing. She is passionate about moving forward the discourse on diversity and inclusion and mentoring female entrepreneurs and investors. She is a frequent speaker on topics including impact investing, diversity and inclusion as well as family offices. In 2021, she was recognized in PEI's inaugural global list as one of the ten most influential women investing across asset classes. In 2022/23, she was on the list of top 50 women in the Netherlands that work in Sustainable Finance.

Dimple holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. Based in Amsterdam, she is an EU permanent resident, US citizen and Indian citizen. She speaks English, Hindi and Dutch.