SATURDAY, MAY 04, 2024
Team Herald
PANJIM: 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 “Fortune India” magazine as one of the “Most Powerful Women” in India for the past four years (2012–2015). She was 50.
Daughter of former Member of Parliament Erasmo de Sequeira and Maureen, she was also the granddaughter of Goa’s first leader of the Opposition Dr Jack de Sequeira. Her husband Roy de Souza is a founder and CEO of Zedo, an internet advertising technology company and they have three young sons.
Deeply rooted in Goa, Aisha was proud of being a Goan and often visited the State with her family.
Aisha had her Masters’ degree 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 GEC, Aisha 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 she 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 and 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 and 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 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 20 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.
