Witad Awards 2020: EDM Professional of the Year (Vendor)—Mansi Bagga, Oxane Partners

Mansi Bagga, winner of EDM professional of the year (vendor) category in this year’s Women in Technology and Data Awards, has, for the majority of her career, been involved in the alternative investment sector.

She joined Oxane Partners in 2015, prior to which she held roles at BlackRock and Evalueserve. Her varied background has given her experience in a range of asset classes, such as structured credit, real estate, loan portfolios, specialty finance and direct lending. “I was basically the end-user of the technology product in the beginning of my career,” she says. “That is how I transitioned into having insights into what an end-user might require.”

Oxane Partners specializes in technology offerings for the alternative investment industry. In her role as vice president within the firm’s Platform Solutions Group, she is involved in general management duties, as well as collaborating with the technology team, including its database architects and software developers.

Among her successes was her role in dealing with a large US-based alternative credit manager with $100 billion under management. “These are always long-term projects,” she says. “They always involve multiple people and stakeholders, in addition to the original sponsors.”  

Bagga dealt directly with the client in addition to receiving support from her team. “I am at the forefront and I understand my clients’ requirements,” she says. “I give them advice and I guide them about how they should translate all their scattered things into a single good source of data.”   

Bagga says her company is highly merit-based and sees herself as a strong advocate of equality and empowerment for women. “I have never felt disadvantaged or singled out just because I am a woman,” she says.

Her future plans are to use the knowledge she has gained from her previous projects and implementations to land additional clients, while at the same time ensuring the ongoing satisfaction of current ones.