Anjali Bansal is the founder of Avaana Capital, a platform that invests in the scaling up of growth stage businesses. She has been appointed non-executive chairperson of Dena Bank. She also chairs NITI Aayog Women Entrepreneurship Platform Investment Council. She was previously global partner and managing director with TPG Growth PE, Spencer Stuart India Founder CEO, and strategy consultant with McKinsey and Co. in New York and India. She has also been an angel investor in various early and growth stage consumer companies in India. She started her career as an engineer. She serves as an independent non-executive director on the public boards of GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals India, Bata India Limited, Tata Power, as well as Delhivery. She is on the advisory board of Columbia University Gl