Pia Sawhney
Cofounder and Partner Emeritus
Joined ASV in 2014
During her tenure, Pia helped direct ASV’s core operations. Doing as such, since the company’s inception, she advised the ASV team and portfolio companies on fundraising, hiring and developing new businesses. In that role, she served as Head of Strategy.
Before joining ASV, Pia Sawhney was a serial media entrepreneur, former investment banker and biologist. As a journalist and documentary filmmaker, her films and media projects were featured and/or published in the New York Times, Variety, the Washington Post and the Huffington Post, and distributed to university libraries nationwide including at Bowdoin College, Stanford, Princeton and Northwestern. She also previously worked with PBS FRONTLINE, the Los Angeles Times, Radio Free Europe, Voice of America and other outlets; and her films screened at a range of prestigious festivals at home and abroad. Pia began her career in finance at JP Morgan Chase in 1999.
Currently, she serves on the board of a nonprofit organization in Vermont. She is also Cofounder of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation, an initiative to remedy the stark disparities in literary translation worldwide for translators and authors working with South Asian languages.
“I am as passionate about growing and realizing healthy returns for our investors as I am about elevating small business entrepreneurs in our region. It is an enormous privilege to work with such industrious and committed people. They inspire all of us at ASV to think more deeply, beyond ourselves, about how to materially improve the lives and businesses of our CEOs, their employees and our portfolio companies.”
— Pia Sawhney