Nawal Roy

Nawal Roy is founder and chief executive of Holmusk, a global digital health and big data platform. Mr Roy has deep operating experience in North America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and South Africa in the financial and health-care sectors. He has significant P&L and operations experience, coupled with more than ten years in top-tier consulting with C-suite executives globally. Mr Roy has been deeply involved in business development and platform building throughout Asia and North America.

Before founding Holmusk, Mr Roy was founder and chief executive of fintech ventures at Rocket Internet. Before that he was a junior partner leading the banking and risk practice service line at McKinsey & Company Singapore. Before joining McKinsey, he was managing partner of Shobhit Capital Group, an independent advisory and capital investment firm in New York.

Earlier in his career, Mr Roy was a vice-president at Moody’s Investors Service covering financial institutions globally. He also has experience at the KPMG capital markets practice in New York City and has worked as a trading strategist and global risk manager at Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Bank.

Mr Roy has been actively supporting and mentoring social entrepreneurs in the US, Singapore and India. He is an adviser and mentor for Singapore International Foundation's Young Social Entrepreneurs programme. He is one of the founders of Professional Risk Managers' International Association. Mr Roy has master’s degrees from both the US (MA in economics and MS in quantitative finance) and India (MA in economics).