Mr Nilesh Shah
Fund Manager
Nilesh Shah is the Founder of Envision Capital, a leading investment management institution focused on providing Portfolio Management Services (PMS). He is highly regarded for his stock picking skills and for identifying growth-oriented capital efficient businesses with a long-term perspective.Nilesh has over 33 years of experience in Indian credit and equity markets, with about 15 years of working with two of India’s leading home grown financial institutions – HDFC group and Kotak group. He joined Kotak group as an Executive and soon became Executive Director at Kotak Securities and President, Kotak Asset Management. He also became the youngest member of the Kotak Leadership Team comprised of the group’s top 30 employees. During this period, Kotak Securities became India’s leading brokerage and PMS house and Kotak Asset Management received several awards. Nilesh holds a CFA from The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI), where he ranked all-India 1st in CFA Preliminary Levels, and a post graduate in management from IRMA, where he was valedictorian. He is also a recipient of several academic and professional awards. Nilesh, also in his capacity as CEO, has been successfully managing the Envision India Value Portfolio since 2010 and Envision India Opportunities Portfolio since 2021, outperforming the Benchmark since inception.
