Surabhi is a Senior Investment Manager on the private markets impact investment team at Snowball. Her responsibilities include sourcing, screening and conducting due diligence on new investments for the Snowball portfolio; and managing the portfolio which includes engaging with fund managers on financial and impact performance. She also contributes towards investor communications and reporting and wider sector engagement initiatives.
Surabhi has over 15 years of experience across financial markets, impact investment and international development. She spent the first half of her career as a fixed income futures broker in firms like Barclays Capital and ICAP Plc. In 2019 she transitioned into impact investment through the On Purpose programme, working at organisations like Better Society Capital and Nesta’s Arts and Culture Impact Fund.
Prior to joining Snowball, she worked at Opportunity International, a global non-profit supporting financial institutions in emerging markets to develop and grow sustainable education lending portfolios. Surabhi holds a Post Graduate Degree in Management from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a Masters in International Politics from SOAS, University of London.
Outside of work, she enjoys reading, hiking, blogging about her travels and tries to keep up a weekly meditation and yoga practice.
I’d be working as a historian or an archaeologist, from an early age I’ve always been fascinated by ancient civilizations. My favourite fiction genre of late is feminist retellings of ancient myths.
Working with arts and culture organizations during my time at Nesta. We worked with theatres, independent music venues, affordable artist studio providers, dance companies – and came across the most creative, resilient, enterprising people consistently delivering positive social and artistic outcomes amidst very challenging funding environments.
Surabhi’s ImpactDNATM
Surabhi’s values are most closely aligned with sustainable communities – in particular Goal 5 (Gender Equality) and Goal 10 (Reduced Inequalities).
Surabhi is deeply interested in initiatives that seek to drive better education and economic outcomes for women and other groups that have historically faced barriers to access, through better representation in decision-making processes. She believes this is essential to building a more just and equitable society.
Sustainable Communities focuses on the social fabric needed to ensure everyone thrives.
UN Sustainable development goals