Anup Bhasin

CEO, Star NRI Services & Managing Partner, Quagmire Consulting

Anup is a business leader with a strong amalgam of business, commercial, financial, legal and operations expertise built over 35 years of diverse exposurein the banking, financial services and legal/business process outsourcing industries.

Anup is the CEO of Star NRI Services and Managing Partner of Quagmire Consulting, both co-founded by him. In the latter, he works with organizations in the areas of Business/Operations Management and Transactional activities like Fund Raising from PE/Other investors, Shareholder agreements, Contracting and related legal support. He also provides guidance to MaxMax Chambers of Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration as a Director. Besides, Anup is involved in the start-up ecosystem in India as an Angel investor, mentor and guide, apart from supporting philanthropic work as co-founder Director of BlueKare Foundation.

Prior, from May 2007 until March 2019, Anup was the Chief Operating Officer, India at UnitedLex Corporation, a global legal solutions and outsourcing company. As part of the founding team, he helped establish and grow the company into an important player in the industry. He participated/led in various corporate activities like fund raising, finalizing shareholder agreements, due diligence, company acquisition and ESOP management. He also helped UnitedLex complete a majority shareholding change. 

Anup started his career with Standard Chartered Bank (1986 – 1995) and mostly worked in corporate banking. He then switched to the business process outsourcing industry, joining the Global Inhouse Financial Center of American Express (1995 – 2002) wherein he played a key role in the growth of the Center by transitioning various accounting and back-office processes from several worldwide locations to India. Subsequently, from August 2002 until April 2007, he worked with Daksh eServices (later acquired by IBM Global Services), a company providing customer service operations to Fortune 500 companies where Mr. Bhasin held a range of leadership roles with P&L responsibility leading teams of up to 5000 employees and executing large projects. In these roles, he was responsible for delivering services to multiple clients with responsibility of Operations, Transitioning, Training, Quality, Human Resources, Administration, IT and Finance functions.

Anup is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and Lawyer.