Suri has been a driving force in championing women inside and outside of HSBC.
Despite males dominating Financial Quantitative Modelling roles, Suri has been able to make a change within his team to involve women who are often reluctant to embark on such careers. Today, while over 40% of his team are women, more importantly they hold leadership positions. This representation has been a great head turner for the industry. Suri assesses team members purely on achievements to ensure that there is no pay review bias against gender or other characteristics. The unmasked pay review saw more females promoted and compensated purely as a result of performance in his team!
Suri is an executive sponsor in D&I and oversees six Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Suri has helped to setup chair roles equally across genders to benefit the business from diverse talent and gender neutral inclusivity for its 6000 members. Suri has often supported women in helping them balance family or personal needs around work. For one female team member, multiple life events (pregnancy/move to new country) taking place at the same time made her feel that there was no option but to resign, as the easy way out. Instead, Suri worked closely to plan various routes to either return to work or not, with no strings attached. Eventually, since the former was preferred, a new role was arranged and in a new country to show how HSBC goes the extra mile to not only support motherhood but meet the changing needs of the family. Through these examples Suri shows how one can spontaneously thrive from providing equal opportunities to women. As a Managing Director in HSBC, Suri sets an example of why it is can be so easy and natural to champion women for life inside and outside work.