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Sangeeta Desai, board director, Anton; NED to Boat Rocker Media​

Sangeeta Desai

Board director, Anton; NED to Boat Rocker Media

Sangeeta Desai is an experienced investor and C-level executive, and currently serves on number of listed and private boards globally. 

She brings a unique combination of strategic, operating and financial experience to her board roles, having spent her early career in investment banking and private equity and then becoming a C-level operating executive.  

She is currently a board director at Anton, non-executive director to Boat Rocker Media and formerly a board chair at Mopar Studios and NED to Ocean Outdoor.

She previously held various C-level positions in the international media industry, most recently as Group COO and CEO of Emerging Markets at FremantleMedia, and prior to that as COO of Hit Entertainment.

She served on the Boards of both companies, as well as numerous subsidiary boards.

Prior to her executive experience, Sangeeta Desai was a private equity investor at Apax Partners, and started her career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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