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Aritra Sarkhel

Captain · DISC type DS
Head - Legal, Compliance, Partnerships, Investments, Public Policy at ANQ
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Aritra is a Founding Partner at ANQ Finance, focusing on CeFi-DeFi banking, asset tokenization, and Web3 public policy. With a background in technology journalism and media startups, colleagues describe him as "innovative", "passionate", and "detail-oriented". He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in TV Journalism.

He has a keen interest in personal investment strategies, sharing anecdotes comparing his crypto investments against traditional assets like gold and silver. Aritra actively engages with the developer community, participating as a judge in blockchain hackathons.

Unique fact: While at WazirX, he created Indias first government-backed educational course on Web3 and Blockchain.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Head - Legal, Compliance, Partnerships, Investments, Public Policy
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How Aritra shows up

Long-Term Thinker
Output-Driven
Planner & Achiever

They are very professional in their approach and can weigh multiple perspectives together. Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time.

Priorities

Topics Aritra cares about

Web3 Regulation
He has extensive experience in public policy for crypto, having led these initiatives at WazirX, India's largest exchange, and now focuses on them at ANQ.
Future of Money
He actively discusses the evolution of finance, particularly advocating for an INR-backed stablecoin to fix broken cross-border payment rails.
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Career

Work history

9-2022
Head - Legal, Compliance, Partnerships, Investments, Public Policy
ANQ
8-2021 - 8-2022
Director, Public Policy & Government Affairs
WazirX
9-2019 - 7-2021
Founding Team
Lokal
1-2018 - 8-2019
Founding Team ( TheBigScope & SparkTV )
Homescreen Network
6-2016 - 1-2018
Special Correspondent Investigations
The Economic Times
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
2010 - 2011
Post Graduate Diploma in TV Journalism
Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media
2009 - 2010
Diploma
The School of Chinese Language
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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