Saloni Kumari is a finance professional with a background spanning audit and risk, private equity research, and capital markets operations. She holds a BCom from Hansraj College, Delhi University, and an MBA in Finance from IIM Kashipur.

She currently works as an Associate at BNP Paribas, where she manages equity deal settlement and reconciliation, acting as the operational link between front-office traders and counterparties to ensure accurate, timely resolution of trade breaks.

At PwC India, she spent two years in risk consulting and internal audit, where she surfaced a material payroll irregularity in the aviation sector and presented findings directly to client CXOs, resulting in a structured recovery process.

At Kaizenvest, a private equity firm focused on impact investing, she conducted comparative research on underperforming portfolio schools across the Middle East and Asia, identifying curriculum, technology, and infrastructure gaps that informed management decisions.

Her MBA dissertation examined how PE and VC-backed Indian firms deploy capital, combining financial ratio analysis, GARCH volatility models, and sentiment analysis to show that governance quality and capital efficiency matter more to market outcomes than funding size.