Who is Bhartesh Shah? You really can't answer that question adequately when you sit with the man for under an hour. Sure, he's the CEO of SBM Bank after 29 years in financial services, holding executive positions at I&M Group, Equity Group Holdings, Standard Chartered Bank, Citibank, and Midland Bank (HSBC) across Eastern Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.
He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School. His children are now adults, his nest empty. His wife, Shruti, is a banker turned life coach. He plays padel three times a week. He's 52, but not interrogating life with any particular question in this season that he calls his summer season. Winter, he says, hasn’t come.
