ICICI Prudential AMC Ltd

Mr Anand Shah has more than two decades of rich fund management experience in the Asset Management industry. Anand joined ICICI Prudential AMC in February 2021. In his previous role, he was CEO of NJ Asset Management. Prior to this stint, he was Deputy CEO and Head of Investments at BNP Paribas Asset Management India Pvt. Ltd, responsible for investments and overseeing both onshore and offshore mandates sub-advised and sales. Prior to joining BNP Paribas, he was the Head of Equities at Canara Robeco AMC Ltd for a period of three years starting March 2008. He was previously associated with ICICI Prudential AMC Ltd in the capacity of Co-Head Equities and as Vice President Investments at Kotak Mutual Fund for a period of six years from May 2000 to December 2006.

Anand has previously won multiple laurels and prestigious awards for his fund management. He was the recipient of ‘The CIO of the Year Award 2014-15’ from Asia Asset Management and has also won multiple other fund level awards for his investment performance. By qualification, he is a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and holds a B.E. degree from Regional Engineering College, Surat.

Mr. Chockalingam Narayanan has over 17 years of extensive experience in Fund Management, Investment Research and Market Analysis. He has been instrumental in analysing business fundamentals to derive relevant and actionable analysis that has portfolio growth. He is consistently relied upon for providing detailed analysis of the macro-economy, financial markets and ESG that serve as some of the key foundation pillars for the various investment strategies that he has worked with in his career. In his career, he has earlier worked with leading organisations like Baroda BNP Paribas Asset Management India Pvt Ltd, Deutsche Equities India Private Limited and Batlivala & Karani Securities. Academically, Mr Chockalingam Narayanan has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal and a Bachelor of Commerce from G.R.Damodaran College of Science. He has also passed the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, USA. 

Ms Geetika Gupta is Fund Manager – Portfolio Management Services at ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Ltd (IPAMC), having joined the company in August 2021. She has over a decade of experience in investments, both in sell-side equity research and buy-side research. Prior to joining IPAMC, she was Vice President at First Voyager Advisors for six years, where she was responsible for the fund's investments in Indian equities.  Prior to that, Ms Gupta was a research analyst at Kotak Institutional Equities for four years (2011-15), covering the Banking and Financial Services (BFSI) space. She began her career in 2007 at Lehman Brothers covering US Equities and later interned with Morgan Stanley, Singapore in the Investment Banking Division in 2010. She comes with deep understanding of the BFSI sector, as well as in B2C businesses in the consumer and technology space. She is an alumnus of IIT Delhi (B.Tech, Chemical Engineering) and IIM, Ahmedabad.

Mr. Rohit Karan joined ICICI Prudential AMC Ltd (IPAMC) as Associate Vice President in the Investments team for Alternate products. He has over 12 years of experience in Indian equities and fixed income markets. At IPAMC his role includes investment research, analyzing macro and devising investment strategies for equity-oriented funds.

Rohit graduated from IIT Kanpur with a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering in 2007 and completed his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 2009. Since then he has been in the Investment management business managing Equity derivative and Fixed Income portfolios. He has vast experience in Quantitative modelling and Macroeconomics, which has become a core part of his experience through the years.

From 2010 to 2015, Rohit worked with Reliance Industries Limited in their corporate treasury as a fixed income portfolio manager. He traded Indian Government Bonds and Interest Rates Swaps and consistently outperformed targeted returns. He was briefly with Indusind Bank as a fixed income trader and in DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund from 2016 till 2018 in a similar role.

He joined Franklin Templeton as a Senior Equity Derivatives trader in 2018. He generated trade ideas based on fundamental, quantitative and technical analysis of derivative markets.

At IPAMC, Rohit has been a key member of the investment team for Long Short strategies for over a year. He is also the fund manager for the ICICI Prudential Enhanced Dynamic Equity Fund.

Mr Suraj Nanda joined ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Ltd (IPAMC) in May 2016, as an Investment Analyst under the Investment Team. Here he was covering the Capital Goods and Chemicals sector. Prior to joining IPAMC, Mr Nanda was associated with IBM India Pvt Ltd as a SAP Basis Consultant between August 2011 and June 2014. Mr Nanda has completed his Post-graduate Diploma in Management (Finance), from SP Jain Institute of Management, Mumbai and Bachelor in Electronics, from Jadavpur University, West Bengal. He has cleared all 3 levels of CFA (US) examination and is awaiting charter.