Sunita Naik

Sunita Naik is Senior Managing Director & Country Lead for State Street Global Advisors India. In her role, Sunita provides leadership and management oversight to a bright and diverse team of ~700 professionals spanning across Investment Research, Technology, Operations, Sales & Marketing Support,  Market Surveillance, Trade Analytics, Investment/Ops Risk Management, Compliance, Billing and Finance functions in Bangalore Hub.

With nearly 30 years of work experience, Sunita is a seasoned organizational leader having been based out of Bangalore and London partnering with counterparts across Asia, EMEA and US with global organizations like Deutsche Bank and Thomson Reuters prior to SSGA. Sunita is skilled at managing, complex, globally distributed initiatives and believes in generating holistic business value and the best client experience technology can deliver. She has been instrumental in building the culture of innovation & collaboration across functions, locally and globally.

Sunita is passionate about Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and strongly believes in harnessing the power of “Collective Intelligence” to solve business problems and creating value for clients. Sunita was the co-chair for Professional Women’s Network within State Street India and continues to play an active role on this and other employee networks. She was co-sponsor at State Street India for CFA Institute India’s ‘Young Women in Investing’ program when it was first piloted. Sunita is a member of SSGA’s Executive Management Group and currently serves on the State Street Talent Council and is a Director on State Street Foundation Board. Prior to her current role, Sunita was Head of Technology for Global Advisors in India.

Sunita has a Master’s degree in Computer Applications (MCA) from Sardar Patel University, Gujarat, India.