Goa’s leading star in the world of finance and investment, investment banker Aisha de Sequeira, Co-Country Head and Head of Investment Banking – India at Morgan Stanley passed away in New York on Thursday morning, India time. Aisha de Sequeira had been named by the “Fortune India” magazine as one of the “Most Powerful Women” in India for the past four years (2012–2015). She was 50.
She had her master’s in public and private management from the Yale School of Management and a bachelor’s in engineering in electronics and telecommunications from Goa Engineering College (GEC). After completing her engineering from the Goa Engineering College, Aisha de Sequiera left for the United States to do her management studies at the Yale Business School in 1993. Thereafter, began a 13-year ride with Morgan Stanley in New York.
In the summer of 1994 Aisha De Sequeira joined as an intern in the investment banking division. By 1995, when she graduated from Yale, she was an associate. A year later, she moved into the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) group. She was dealing with CEOs of large companies at a very young age and was in M&A team at a very early stage of her career. Morgan Stanley’s Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) group in New York and executed a broad range of financial advisory assignments including cross-border, mergers, buy-side, sell-side and restructuring mandates.
In November 2007, Aisha de Sequeira had moved to Mumbai to head Morgan Stanley’s investment group in India. In the past several years, under her leadership, Morgan Stanley has been the dominant M&A franchise in India, with approximately twenty per cent of all cross-border deals, and has been the number one IPO Bank in India. In May 2013, Aisha de Sequeira had been appointed as co-country head for Morgan Stanley in India, in addition to her role as head of investment banking in India.
Her husband Roy de Souza is a founder and CEO of Zedo, an internet advertising technology company and they have three young sons.
