Priya Panse, CFA
Who they are
Priya Panse is Strategic Accounts Leader at Spectrum Consulting — she founded the firm in January 2026 after a decade-plus at BlackRock, where she also co-founded and globally co-chaired the Asian and Middle Eastern Professional Network.
Person
Priya graduated from Singapore Management University with a Bachelor of Accountancy in 2013, with an exchange year at HEC Montréal in 2012 — a classically rigorous start for someone who'd spend the next decade in financial services. She cut her teeth in Singapore banking at Standard Chartered and Citicorp Investment Bank before moving into BlackRock's Aladdin business, also from Singapore. Over time she climbed into ETF sales, then Director of iShares ETF, then Vice President of ETF Sales — a long arc inside one of the world's largest asset managers. Alongside that employed track she co-founded and globally co-chaired BlackRock's Asian and Middle Eastern Professional Network, which signals she builds institutions inside institutions. In January 2026 she stepped out to found Spectrum Consulting, building AI-enabled workflows across sales, product strategy, and investor relations. Possibly — her long tenure at BlackRock and her public writing on AI adoption in regulated environments suggests she left with a clear thesis: that financial services firms are under-equipped to operationalize AI, and she wants to be the person who fixes that.
How they likely show up
- Long tenure at BlackRock across multiple roles (Aladdin associate → VP of ETF Sales → Director) → thinks in long relationship cycles, not transactional wins.
- Founded Spectrum Consulting in January 2026 while still fresh from a major institution → high agency; wasn't waiting for permission to move.
- Co-founded and globally co-chaired an internal professional network at BlackRock → comfortable building community structures inside complex organizations, not just delivering outputs.
- Hybrid role-type pattern spanning sales, strategy, and investor relations → likely bridges technical and commercial conversations rather than living in one lane.
- Possibly — public writing on AI adoption in regulated environments → frames herself as a practitioner-translator, not a technologist, which suggests she leads with use cases over theory.
Conversation tips
- → Reference the BlackRock-to-founder jump specifically — she made a deliberate bet leaving a prestigious institution to go independent, and she'll have a clear story about why.
- → Ask about the AI-in-regulated-environments angle concretely — she writes about adoption challenges, so she has real opinions on where firms stall.
- → Don't treat her primarily as a sales person; her background spans product strategy and investor relations, and she responds to the full strategic picture.
- → If you have a Singapore or Asia connection, surface it — her early career was entirely Singapore-based and she co-chaired a pan-Asian professional network.
Toolbox
Openers
- Open on founding Spectrum Consulting in January 2026 — she left BlackRock after building an entire internal professional network there, so the decision to go independent is a specific, deliberate move worth asking about.
- Reference her co-founding of BlackRock's Asian and Middle Eastern Professional Network — she built a global employee institution inside one of the world's largest asset managers, which is a distinct credential most sales or ETF directors don't have.
- Bring up her public writing on AI-enabled workflows in regulated environments — she's staked out a specific position on practical adoption challenges, not just AI hype, and she'll engage sharply if you've read it.
Discovery questions
- What's the specific workflow breakdown you kept seeing at BlackRock that made you confident there was a consulting business to build around AI adoption in financial services?
- Running the Asian and Middle Eastern Professional Network globally — how did you build buy-in across regions inside a firm like BlackRock, and does that playbook translate to what you're doing now with clients?
- You've worked across Aladdin, ETF sales, and now go-to-market strategy — where do you see the sharpest gap between how asset managers think about product and how they actually sell it?
Avoid
Don't treat Spectrum Consulting as a generic boutique consultancy — she founded it with a specific AI-and-financial-services thesis and will disengage quickly if the conversation stays at a generic 'AI transformation' level.
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