Falguni Desai
Falguni Desai — Managing Director, Strategy, Banking & Capital Markets at Microsoft. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.
Managing Director, Strategy, Banking & Capital Markets
As a corporate strategy, transformation, and M&A leader, Falguni has over 25 years of global experience in the financial services sector. She serves some of the largest financial institutions on Wall Street in their transformation, innovation and growth plays. She works with C-suite leaders to build business cases and narratives that drive revenue growth and efficiency, as they look to implement new technologies that enable their strategic goals.
Falguni has worked at bulge bracket banks leading large scale transformations & strategy. Her work spans talent upskilling, new technology adoption, operating model changes, restructuring and culture change initiatives. As a corporate strategist she has also led acquisitions, divestitures, organic growth plans, design thinking and new market entry. Falguni started her career as an M&A investment banker and consultant to large banks.
As an active author and speaker, she has written over 50 articles for Forbes on topics ranging from fintech, financial inclusion, robo advisors, marketplace lending and startup accelerators to digital innovation and corporate strategy. Her work has been cited in media outlets including, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post, Business Insider and many others.
