Daw Khine Sandar Min @ Sandra

Founder and Managing Partner | Burgundy Hills Company Limited

Sandra is an experienced senior executive, bringing years of successful leadership in financial services, start-ups, business development, and client management in both developed and emerging markets. She has worked extensively on corporate and transaction banking solutions, strategic partnerships with financial institutions, business and operational restructuring, commercial and multi-lateral debt and equity deals, private equity, risk and compliance management, business strategies and solutions for both affluent corporate, individual high-net-worth stakeholders, and start-ups. Sandra founded the Burgundy Hills Company in 2016, an agribusiness and food venture focused on Myanmar. Since then, she has successfully set up operations facilities across Myanmar, expanded trade deals in both volume and market, lead a growing team of local employees, growers, aggregators, and trading partners, and secured grant and equity investment from well-regarded local and international funders. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Global Women Corporate Directors – Myanmar Chapter, an independent board director and an audit committee chair of a microfinance Institute, a board of director and an audit committee member of Myanmar Institute of Directors, a board member of local private energy startup, a committee member of the Myanmar Corn Industrial Association. She is also a certified project management professional, and a member and trainer of Myanmar Institute of Directors. In addition to founding and managing the Burgundy Hills Company, she had/has worked and consulted for Yoma Strategic Holdings in Singapore, KBZ Group and Yoma Bank in Myanmar, and Fortune 100 financial and franchise companies in the U.S. Sandra is an alumnus of the University of California.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandramin/

Educational Background

  • University of California Los Angeles B.S. Biochemistry, Minor In Entrepreneurship

Directorship Certification

  • Myanmar Institute of Directors, DCP1, 2019

Employment History

  • Founder and Managing Partner – Burgundy Hills Company
  • Advisor – KBZ Group
  • Group Head of Corporate Development and Affairs – Yoma Strategic Holdings
  • Head of Corporate Banking and Financial Institution – Yoma Bank
  • VP Business Banking – Wells Fargo Bank
  • AVP Retail Banking – Wells Fargo Bank

Directorship History

  • IFC Nominee Director (Current)
  • Myanmar Institute of Directors (Current)
  • Thisar Ooyin Microfinance (Current)
  • Burgundy Hills Company Limited (Current)
  • Pure Energy Company Limited (Current)
  • American Chamber of Commerce (Past)
  • Pyit Tain Taung Non-Profit Foundation (Past)
  • India-Myanmar Chamber of Commerce (Past)

Functional Area

  • Consulting
  • Emerging Markets
  • Financial Expertise/CFO
  • Governance
  • Manufacturing
  • New Product/Service Development
  • Operations
  • Risk Management
  • Strategic Alliances, Partnerships and/or Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Strategic Planning
  • Technology