Omniscience Capital Advisiors Private Limited

Varun is a co-founder at OmniScience Capital. He heads the quantitative research and analysis function at OmniScience Capital tracking and analysing nearly 5000 companies across US, EU, UK and India. He is responsible for translating the Scientific Investing philosophy and framework into quantitative models. These models are used to create the SuperNormal investment universe and the SuperNormal portfolios. He started his career with ING in Hong Kong working on quantitative modelling of their business across APAC. As an Equity Analyst, he got a rigorous experience of analysing listed equities at Trefis—a firm focused on providing insights & recommendations on major US-listed equities. He was responsible for covering US Tech and Defense stocks; including preparing DCF valuation models for firms, such as, Boeing, Lockheed Marting, Google, Amazon, among others. He wrote over 200 company & sector-specific articles published and syndicated to international publications such as Forbes & E-Trade; Initiated coverage for major tech IPOs such as Facebook & Groupon and made detailed DCF models for the same.Before founding OmniScience Capital, he was heading the quant-research at another global investment management firm; preparing detailed backtests for their proprietary global and domestic investment strategies and also responsible for creating, rebalancing and monitoring performance of all in-house investment strategies. He co-developed dozens of investment strategies across developed markets, US, EU, UK, Japan and emerging markets, such as, India, GCC etc. He worked with NYSE and Reuters in implementing several of them as live strategies on their platforms.He has a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Roorkee, Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Bangalore and EDHEC France.

Vikas founded OmniScience Capital to provide a scientific approach to Global and India listed-equity investments. Together with his team, he formulated the proprietary Scientific Investing Framework Scientific Investing Framework is the outcome of rebuilding investment management from first principles based on the combination of deep understanding of the 100+ years of investment research and the trial-by-fire over nearly two decades of investment experience across various global markets & market cycles. Deconstructing and reconstructing the above research and experience was the fundamental insight providing the foundations for Scientific Investing: In a risky asset class, such as equity, while, everyone is chasing alpha and getting risks, you could chase safety and get alpha.He filed for various patents, trademarks and copyrights to monetize intangible assets in various jurisdictions and initiated multiple academic partnerships with global institutions of research excellence such as LBS, CASS, ETFGI, Montclair State Univ., etc. He has a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and has earned his Masters and Doctorate from an Ivy League University—Columbia University, New York. He later served as a Research Scientist and Professor at University of California, Irvine, and IIT Kharagpur respectively. Vikas has been invited to write for global and India publications, such as, The Street (USA) and Seeking Alpha (USA), Moneycontrol, Mint, and Economic Times. He has been frequently quoted and interviewed in various publications on Indian and Global markets, such as Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Gulf News, Economic Times, CNBC, ETNow, Channel News Asia and others. He has co-authored a book on Corporate Governance in the context of Sarbanes-Oxley.