Welcome to SQN Partners

Shawn Runacres, Director, has lived in Delhi for 6 years. Shawn’s professional expertise is in corporate events and she has a background in marketing and brand management. Shawn spent many years with the Walt Disney Company starting with them in Paris prior to the Opening of Disneyland Paris. After 4 years in Paris, she moved to London and established the Walt Disney Special Events Office (WDSEG) covering events across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. A veteran diplomatic spouse of 17 years, Shawn and her family decided, after many years and several postings, to settle in New Delhi. Entrepreneurial by nature, she has established two companies in India and spends her spare time sitting on the advisory board of various NGO’s, helping them to create successful fundraising events.

Sushmita Jha brings experience in people development and enabling professional excellence in individuals. This has proven long term impact on organisations. Through her work in India, South East Asia and the Middle East, she has developed innovative policies and systems while ensuring people development in a caring way. Her methods have led to talent retention and delivery of client services by a motivated team. With McKinsey & Company, she has wide experience in instituting a high-performing and nurturing culture and its support systems, to empower individuals to operate in a global market place.

Katrina Koffler has a background that spans the areas of media, sustainable development, incubators and innovation. For companies such as Virgin and NTL, she focussed on business development; this involved working across media platforms with international partners to develop and launch new products and services to targeted audiences within the UK. She shifted focus to co-found Meltwater Ventures, working in strategic partnership with Oxford University to establish an incubator, creating profitable fast growth businesses that provide solutions to the problems of climate change. Her focus is on the opportunities presented by sustainable development to drive innovation, value creation and growth.