100+ countries

Wander the lane less traveled

Hi! I'm Sasha – My mom is Indian, and my dad is Russian, Polish, and German so my nickname growing up was “the Hinjew." In my family, this basically meant I came out of the womb negotiating and traveling with 50+ people for family vacations. At age five, I packed a suitcase, told my parents I was off to go travel the world, and went to the street corner holding a sign that said “take me anywhere.” Thankfully no one picked me up but I vowed to eventually go somewhere. As of today, I have been to more than 100 countries.

First, a little about me and how I've been able to marry my work with my love for luxury travel and event planning

I started my career working in finance as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers where I did M&A and IPOs for tech companies. My passion for those innovative businesses is what led me to being an operator the last decade focused on strategy, product, GTM and business development in the consumer tech, fintech, mobility and travel tech industries. Over the course of my career, I’ve been able to do some really cool things like lead a team that built the world's first semi-autonomous robot that follows you, ran one of the biggest loyalty and subscription programs in the world at Uber, and invest in women-led companies that are changing beverage, beauty and more. Nowadays I spent most of my time at an investment firm but take on a select number of clients per year to plan amazing retreats and conferences for.

 

 

 

Taking all my learnings and network, I started investing, advising and planning events

I’ve served as a keynote speaker at the WSJ Future of Everything Festival, Skift, Collision, CES, and more, was a former Global Ambassador for Women in Travel, named one of the top 35 leaders under the age 35 to watch in the travel industry by Phocuswright and been in Wired, Bloomberg, Techcrunch and more.

 

My business background is one of my most useful superpowers when it comes to planning trips

Because of my inside look into the travel industry, I know exactly how to utilize loyalty programs, strategically plan itineraries, utilize my network to get access to private experiences and villas, and finagle deals to make your money go as far as possible when you’re adventuring abroad. Thanks to my prior roles, I've had the pleasure of building an incredible network of executives across disciplines and backgrounds — many of them who want to plan out-of-the box adventures for clients, employees or themselves, but didn't have the bandwidth or know-how to plan. I use my talents to partner with them to bring incredible five-star experiences to life.

 

If ballin’ on a budget was an art, you could call me Picasso

I started planning luxury group adventures in college because I realized the power of numbers and how I could have infinitely nicer trips if I traveled in a group. Now, I plan trips for curated groups where we do purpose based travel such as learning a skill (sailing in Bora Bora), exploring remote places (fly-in safari in Namibia) and long-weekend getaways in the Caribbean at insta-worthy villas. I only host a handful of these a year but we go all-out.