Mr. Bharat Shah, is an Executive Director of ASK Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Bombay and a post-graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. He has been on the Board since 2008. He has over 32 years of experience in the field of investment management and has previously worked at Birla Capital International AMC Limited and Asian Paints (India) Limited.

Vikaas M Sachdeva has over 25 years of work experience across the financial services industry, of which, for close to a decade he has served as a Chief Executive Officer across organizations. He is the former CEO of EMKAY Investment Managers Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Emkay Global Financial Services Limited (EGFSL). He was previously associated with ENAM Asset Management, Edelweiss Asset Management, BOI AXA Investment Management, ING Investment Management and Birla Sun Life AMC. Mr Vikaas has been an erstwhile member on the Mutual Fund Advisory Committee (MFAC), a high-powered committee appointed by SEBI. He also served as a director on the board of the Association of Mutual Funds of India (AMFI) for over half a decade and had led the Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) committee. More recently, Mr Vikaas was associated with the Asset Managers Roundtable of India (AMRI), the nodal body for FPIs in the country. He is a Commerce Graduate and holds a Master’s in Management Studies (Marketing) from CRKIMR, Mumbai.

Rushabh Sheth is the Co-Founder, Director and Co CIO at Karma Capital with almost three decades of experience in Investment management industry. In his engagements prior to Karma Capital, Rushabh was CIO (Equities) at Kotak Mutual Fund, and Portfolio Manager, Investment Analyst, etc. with ASK Raymond James. At Kotak, he established excellent track records for two of the funds that he managed and they were top performers in their respective categories in 2003-05 and assets for the fund grew eightfold. Rushabh was a part of the core team Involved in setting up the investment management business for ASK Raymond James. Rushabh holds a graduate degree in Commerce from University of Mumbai at Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics and is a qualified Cost Accountant.

"Ravi is Founder & Chief Investment Officer at ValueQuest Investment Advisors Pvt. Ltd. ValueQuest is more than a decade old PMS firm.

ValueQuest manages AUM of 5000crs+ and have generated an XIRR of over 20% over the past 10 years. According to study done by PMS AIF World, It has been ranked recently as one of the top PMS firm in 10+ year performance category. He is managing VQ Platinum scheme, which has recently been awarded 5-star PMS rating by PMS Bazaar powered by Crisil, which is the highest possible rating.

Ravi has an MBA in Finance from McCallum Business School, Bentley University, USA. He has been associated with the Indian stock markets for over 23 years. After graduating, he worked his way up through the stock market business, spending four years at RARE Enterprises, Late Shri Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s Family Office. where he was involved with research, private equity deals and value creation activities before moving to ValueQuest and taking charge of research."

Saurabh is the former CEO of Ambit Capital and played a key role in Ambit’s rise as a broker and a wealth manager. When Saurabh left Ambit in June 2018, assets under advisory were $800mn. Saurabh has written three bestselling books: Gurus of Chaos (2014), The Unusual Billionaires (2016) and "Coffee Can Investing: The low risk route to stupendous returns" (2018). Prior to turning around Ambit, Saurabh was a co-founder of Clear Capital, a London based small-cap equity research firm which he and his co-founders created in 2003 and sold in 2008. Qualifications : Saurabh is a CFA charter holder with a BSc in Economics (with First Class Honours) from the London School of Economics. He also has a MSc in Economics (with distinction in Macroeconomics & Microeconomics) from the same institution. In India, Saurabh is a SEBI-registered Research Analyst and he has also passed the SEBI’s approved exams for Investment Advisors. In 2018, upon SEBI’s invitation, Saurabh joined SEBI’s Asset Management Advisory Committee.

• 1986-88: MBA from Asian Institute of Management, Manila. Finished on Dean’s List (Top 10 percent of Class).
• 1988-1989: Citibank NA, in its Investment Bank, Mumbai. Worked in its Investment Banking Division.
• 1990: Quit Citibank, to start First Global and now GQuant Investech.
• 1999 onwards: Set out to globalize First Global’s operations to international.
• 2000: Gained membership of the prestigious London Stock Exchange
• 2001: Gained membership of the NASD, US, enabling First Global to start trading in theUS market.
• 2002 onward: First Global built its research coverage of global companies and economies around the world. First Global’s research independence, unbiased stance, and ability to discern trends ahead of the street, have made its global research gain tremendous following among institutional investors worldwide.
• Mr. Sharma was part of the core Investment Management team in First Global' Asset Management Business, worldwide.
• In 2022, Founded GQuant Investech, a global Fintech and Asset Management company.

Mr. Madanagopal Ramu is Head - Equities and Fund Manager, with over 15 years of experience in the Indian Financial Markets. He currently manages an Assets Under Management (AUM) of around Rs. 3400 crores and has over 6 years of experience in managing funds. He manages Sundaram India Secular Opportunities Portfolio (SISOP), Sundaram Emerging Leadership Fund (S.E.L.F.) and Voyager PMS strategies which recently won awards at PMS Bazaar’s PMS Rankings FY 21-22 event. Madan joined Sundaram Mutual fund in 2010 as a Research Analyst from Centrum Broking and has made rapid progress during his tenure in Sundaram AMC. He became the Head of Equity Research in April 2015 and started actively managing funds from January 2016. He comes with strong academic qualifications, as a qualified Cost Accountant and a Management degree from BIM Trichy.

Mr. Arun Malhotra has more than 25 years of experience in the Indian Capital markets. He gained trading and research experience with BLB Ltd. in early 1990s and moved to DBS Securities in the year 1997 to set up their Indian equity broking operations right from scratch. He was an experienced analyst for the life sciences fund at Manning & Napier, New York – a $26 Bn Asset Management firm. Thereafter, he came back to India and ran a U.S hedge fund (2005 -2013) in Mumbai. This fund was promoted by Randal Smith, a pioneer in distressed investing. The peak corpus size was $300 Mn and was invested across the capital structure of the firms. The fund performance was well above the benchmark indices through various cycles. Arun was involved as a consultant to a European Investment Bank for their business in India and managed/invested his money in listed equities. The performance of the proprietary portfolio exceeded the benchmarks with complete focus on quality stocks and special situation investing. Arun has completed his executive MBA from FMS Delhi (1997-2000) and his full-time two-year M.B.A (2001-03) from one of the top business schools in Finance - Simon Business School, University of Rochester, New York.

Mr. Abhisar Jain has completed his MBA in Finance from SP Jain Centre of Global Management and is a CFA charter holder (US). He has over 13 years of experience in the equity markets with specialization in equity research and niche in identifying high quality businesses. He earned several accolades in his earlier stint as lead analyst for Metals & allied sectors including Best analyst award from renowned Reuters analyst awards for two consecutive years, Top 10 ranking from prestigious Asiamoney polls for Best analyst in small cap category and Best stock idea selection thrice from HDFC MF. He has also worked at Centrum Broking, ICICI securities and TCS earlier in his career.

Mr. Karthik Athreya, Director and Head of Strategy for Alternative Credit, is a financial services professional with over 22 years of experience across principal investing, funds management, investment banking, corporate finance, assurance and transaction diligence services. He heads Sundaram Alternates’ (SA) private credit team which manages Assets over $170 million across real estate and private credit. Prior to SA, Karthik led the India business of Clearwater Capital Partners, a pan Asian special situations fund since 2007 and oversaw over a billion dollars of investment in India across secured lending, offshore private credit, deep restructurings, private equity and real estate investing. He was instrumental in the set up and build out of Clearwater’s high yield Assets-backed lending NBFC platform that built close to USD 400 million balance sheet profitably. Prior to Clearwater, Karthik was a founder employee and a Director of Investment Banking at YES Bank. He worked as a Director in the Investment Banking business of Rabo India Finance, a subsidiary of Rabobank Nederlands. Prior to this, Karthik worked in the Corporate Finance group of Arthur Andersen and with PricewaterhouseCoopers in their assurance & transaction advisory business.

Vineet is the Founder and CEO of Vivriti Asset Management Limited, an AMC that was incorporated in 2019. Vineet is also the co-founder of Vivriti Group which was founded in 2017 and comprises of the India’s largest debt platform ‘CredAvenue’ along with a NBFC. Vivriti Group – backed by marquee investors Creation Investments and LGT Lightrock, – is recognised as a “Soonicorn” owning to its phenomenal growth, innovation and leadership position in the BFSI space. Vineet has close to 20 years of experience in financial services and is an industry expert in debt capital markets, performing credit, financial inclusion and fund management. Prior to Vivriti, Vineet led IFMR Investment Managers as its CEO and IFMR Capital as its CFO for over 7 years, contributing to its growth from near-inception to over US$ 7.5 bn of business. Vineet earlier worked with the Tata Group and Standard Chartered Bank across roles in investment banking, strategy and capital markets.

Ram Goyal is the Senior Executive Officer at Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd, Dubai. Ram joined the Aditya Birla Group in 2008 as Head – East Zone, based at Kolkata, West Bengal, India. In this role, he transformed the zone into one of the largest contributors to overall organization’s assets under management (AUM) as well as profits. He moved to Dubai in 2011 as head of GCC. Since then, he has led the organization’s business in Middle East. In these last twelve years that Ram has led the AMC business in Middle East, the organization has grown from strength to strength and today is one of the most successful Indian AMCs in the region.

Ram’s experience in the financial services industry spans across 2 decades, with 10 years of being in a middle level leadership role. He has a track record of managing large teams, diverse geographies a middle level leadership role. He has a track record of managing large teams, diverse geographies and successfully scaling businesses in his various roles. Before joining the Aditya Birla Group, Ram was heading North Zone of India for Edelweiss AMC. He has also worked for ICICI Prudential AMC, Cholamandalam AMC, and Indiainfoline in India in various roles.

Aman has over 17 years of Indian equity experience. Prior to joining Abakkus he was Portfolio manager for all local and offshore schemes for PMS division of Reliance Asset Management (now Nippon Life India Asset Management). Having worked at Singapore office of Reliance, Aman brings along a regional and global perspective in investing and has strong track record across – benchmark, absolute long and long-short strategies. Before joining Reliance in 2005 he was associated as research analyst with TAIB securities, Tata TD waterhouse and other brokerage firms. Aman holds an MBA degree from Mumbai University

Vishal is a Director at Varanium Capital and looks after the Global Investments Business, besides helping the firm to raise funds for its domestic funds in the Equity and Alternate space. Starting his career as a stockbroker, Vishal has 24 years of experience spanning into Wealth and Asset Management businesses, working at distribution, advisory, and portfolio management roles. Prior to Varanium, he was head of Investment business in India at Deutsche Bank for its International Private Banking division. He worked with HSBC, ICICI Bank, Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund, and Motilal Oswal Securities in past.

He is a CFA Charter holder from the CFA Institute, USA and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Devi Ahilya University, Indore.

A Chartered Accountant by qualification, Krishnan has more than 30 years of varied and extensive experience in a wide spectrum of businesses in Financial Services including Wealth Management, Merchant Banking, M&A, Private Equity, & Corporate Finance. Since 2006 he is the CEO of Barjeel Geojit Financial Services LLC, Dubai, a leading financial intermediary, operating and dealing in a wide range of financial markets, offering attractive investment solutions & products. He also oversees the various GCC joint ventures of his parent company Geojit Financial Services Ltd.

Barjeel Geojit, under his tenure, has been awarded by UTI-CNBC TV18, as the best ‘Financial Advisor Award’ (NRI Category) for 8 years in a row (2010 to 2017) and were also the proud recipient of their Grand Jury Award for ‘Financial Inclusion & Education’ in 2013. In recognition of the contribution to the financial advisory space over the past decade, UTI-CNBC TV18 has inducted Barjeel Geojit into their ‘Hall of Fame’ for the years 2018-19 & 2019-20
At Finalyca, he is a board member and an advisor to the executive team.

Krishnan has been recognized by International Advisor in their global listing ‘IA 100 – The Industry’s Most Influential’ for 2019-20. IA 100 shines a light on those individuals who are meeting the investment advisory challenges head on, quickening the pace of change and leading by example.
In 2021 Economic Times recognized and awarded Barjeel Geojit as one among the ‘Best Brands’ in UAE

Krishnan has over these years led many initiatives to promote India as an attractive investment destination, and has had the opportunity to work in tandem with many, experts, organizations, professional organizations and in particular with Indian government bodies like the Ministry of Finance, SEBI, RBI, NSE / BSE etc.

He is a regular contributor to media publications in UAE & India by way of articles, interviews and opinions on investments, policy issues and macro-economic trends and has spoken in a number of public forums articulating these themes.

He was also a Lead Assessor for the prestigious Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MRM) Business Awards for 5 years.

He is a member of ICAT Toastmasters, have served for 2 years as Executive Member of ICAI Dubai Chapter; and member of IBPC.

Reading, movies, watching TV, music etc. are his hobbies. Loves to travel and see historical places.

Mr. Akhil Chaturvedi is the Chief Business Officer and currently heads Sales & Operations, International Business, Product and Business development at Motilal Oswal Asset Management Co. Ltd. He has been with the Motilal Oswal AMC for the over 9 years and has over all 22 years of rich experience across organizations such as Birla Sun Life Asset Management Ltd., Birla Global Finance Ltd., and Daiwa Asset Management Pvt. Ltd.

His last assignment was with Daiwa Asset Management Pvt Ltd. as Head – Retail Sales where he was responsible for setting up Sales & Distribution function and was actively involved in Product Development and launch strategies for Mutual Fund Schemes.

Mr. Chaturvedi holds MBA in Marketing and MA in Finance from the University of Leeds, UK. He is also a certified Financial Planner.

Milan Ganatra is a serial entrepreneur and investor in the fintech space in India. In 1999, he co-founded Miles Software and lead the organisation as a CEO for two decades. Miles Software was recognised as the number one private banking solution provider for four years in a row by IBS Intelligence and attracted a customer base of over 400 thousand users. Milan has successfully exited Miles Software to further leverage his technical expertise and knowledge to explore pathbreaking ideas in the fintech space. At Finalyca, he is a board member and an advisor to the executive team. Besides, Milan is a member of the Advocacy & Knowledge Management Committee for the Indian Institute of Alternative Investments funds. As a dedicated professional, he is always keen on welcoming interesting ideas, investing in new projects and offering innovative solutions.

Richard was Vice Chairman of Standard Chartered Private Bank from 2014 to 2019, focusing on global philanthropy, family office and next generation programmes, in addition to UK and Commonwealth investment opportunities for Ultra High Net Worth families across Asia, Africa and Middle East and Europe. In particular, he conceived and delivered the award-winning Future Global Leaders’ Programme, which ran from 2015 to 2019 and has 150 alumni from the world’s leading families. Richard joined the Bank from the British Royal Household, where he was Master of the Household of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. Richard spent his first 18 years as a battlefield helicopter pilot, and in this capacity he served alongside the Indian Armed Forces for one year in Tamil Nadu.