Sheinal is a Senior Portfolio Director at JG Digital Equity Ventures (JG DEV), the venture capital arm of JG Summit, a leading diversified conglomerate in the Philippines. JG DEV focuses on investing in early-to-mid stage startups in Southeast Asia across fintech, supply chain & logistics, and e-commerce/new retail. Sheinal has spent the majority of his career across a variety of roles in financial services. Prior to his move into fintech and now venture capital, Sheinal was previously in equity capital markets, most lately as Country Head and CEO of CLSA in Indonesia, a top-ranked equities-focused house in Asia, responsible for Equity Research, Sales, Sales-Trading and Operations. He was also a Director of PT CLSA Indonesia. Post CLSA, Sheinal was the Managing Director of Asia and Africa at the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL), a fintech company spun out of Harvard Kennedy School, and was responsible for sales and customer success across a wide portfolio of financial institution clients. EFL subsequently merged with Lenddo, where he became CFO of the newly combined company and a member of the Executive Committee with direct responsibilities including capital raising, strategic planning, budgeting and performance management, business intelligence, finance and accounting, legal, and tax. He also assumed the role of VP of Lending Partnerships, responsible for building out direct-lending capabilities. He was also on the Board of Accial Capital, a private debt-focused asset management company that was subsequently spun out of LenddoEFL. He is a graduate of MIT (Sloan Fellow, MBA), The London School of Economics (PGD Finance and Accounting), and King's College London (M. Sci. Chemistry) and is also a CFA Charterholder. Sheinal is a member of the MIT Committee of Singapore. Read more about JG Digital Equity Ventures here https://www.jgdev.ph/ and connect with Sheinal on Linkedin here https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheinalbhuralal/ If you enjoyed this podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 30 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince new guests to come on the show, and on top of that, I love reading the reviews! Follow Andrew: Website: https://andrewsenduk.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrew.senduk/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-senduk-1980/