Amrita Sabnavis Founder of Daily Roti

A dynamic individual with proven leadership and management qualities, Amrita Sabnavis, is the Founder and driving force behind the successful business of Daily Roti in India.

Amrita Sabnavis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Xavier’s College and a Master degree in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai University.

As a senior investor relations executive with Reliance Private Equity, Sabnavis quit her job in December 2015 to start an entrepreneurial venture in the ready-to-cook segment.  She started her entrepreneurial venture in January 2016. Sabnavis started the hardest business that she could find. She says, “I wanted a real challenge.” It was her interest in food anthropology that fueled her entrepreneurial venture of a very tough business ready-to-cook as it has to take yet off in India and investors are yet to show their interest in investment, but the Sabnavis took the initiative and accepted the challenge.

Amrita Sabnavis funding the venture on her own with her gratuity and PF money and she says, as long as she could, she will sustain the business on her own.

Due to distribution challenges in perishable products, the fresh food space is a minefield. So far Sabnavis understands what works for the consumer in food and its preparation context. The response time, when the consumer wants food is also very important and key factors in ready-to-cook business.

Before starting her entrepreneurial venture, Sabnavis was serving with Reliance Private Equity as Vice President – Fundraising with the Advisory Team. She worked very smartly and proved her expertise among her other team members & management. She has total 16 years of diversified experience.

Before joining Reliance Private Equity, Sabnavis worked with HDFS Bank as Vice President where she headed a product management team responsible for delivery of banking products and services to high net worth clients of the bank. She very successfully and smartly completed her responsibilities and played her role in successful operations of the bank. Remember, Sabnavis always worked hard but smartly because there is a difference only to work hard and smarter. Being smart, Sabnavis saved time and achieved her objectives with optimum results.

Before HDFC Bank, Sabnavis worked with JM Morgan Stanley’s wealth management business and was responsible for providing specific financial advisory services. She also worked Standard Chartered Bank and ANZ Grind lays Bank, where she was briefly involved with a rural microfinance and supply chain firm, where she helped set up livelihoods vertical.

Amrita Sabnavis has well equipped with management knowledge, rich and diversified experience and lots of qualities and skills like business strategy, relationship management, banking, retail banking and wealth management. With all the qualities and abilities, the Sabnavis is doing her business and taking a big challenge as she says, “I wanted a real challenge.”