Shashank Singh

Partner & Head of India Office
Apax Partners

Shashank Singh is a partner and Head of the India office, having helped to start it in 2007. He also serves as a Trustee of the Apax Foundation. Shashank joined Apax in 2004 in London, where he specialised in Tech & Telecom deals. Shashank has led or participated in a number of deals at Apax including Zensar Technologies, Shriram City Union Finance, Chola, GlobalLogic, iGATE, Apollo Hospitals, TIM Hellas, Weather Investments, TDC, Bezeq and Synetrix. He is currently on the Boards of GlobalLogic, Shriram City Union Finance and Zensar Technologies.

Prior to joining Apax Partners, Shashank was a strategy consultant with Monitor Company, where he advised clients in the telecoms and high technology sectors.

Shashank has an MBA from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar), a first class MA in economics from Cambridge University and a BA (Honours) with distinction from St. Stephen’s College (University of Delhi).

Ashwini Agarwal

Partner
Ashmore Investment Management India LLP

Ashwini Agarwal is a partner at Ashmore Investment Management India LLP, an affiliate of the Ashmore Group plc. Ashwini is responsible for advising Ashmore Group plc for their equity investments in India and is a sponsor and manager for Ashmore India Opportunities Fund, a category-III AIF in India. Ashwini started working in the Indian equity markets in 1992 when he joined SBI Mutual Fund, and subsequently held positions of investment analyst, equities sales and senior management roles at SSKI Securities, UBS Securities and Kotak Securities between 1994-2006. He has been employed with the Ashmore Group since June 2006. Ashwini holds a PGDM from IIM Bangalore and a B. Com (Hons) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University.

Raamdeo Agrawal

Joint Managing Director
Motilal Oswal Financial Services

Mr. Raamdeo Agrawal is the Jt. Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited (MOFSL). MOFSL is a well-diversified financial services firm offering a range of products and services in securities, commodities, investment banking, asset management and venture capital. He is also the co-founder of Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd. (MOSL) along with Mr. Motilal Oswal. MOSL is the subsidiary of MOFSL engaged in stock broking and retail wealth management, has been consistently rated by Asia Money Broker’s Poll as one of the leading equity research houses in India. Mr. Agrawal is the key driving force behind MOSL’s strong research capability.

Mr. Agrawal is an Associate of Institute of Chartered Accountant of India. He is a member of the National Committee on Capital Markets of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He has been authoring the annual Motilal Oswal Wealth Creation Study since its inception in 1996. He has also featured on ‘Wizards of Dalal Street on CNBC TV 18’. In 1986, he wrote the book Corporate Numbers Game, along with co-author Mr. Ram K Piparia. Research & Stock picking is Mr. Agrawal’s passion.

Shiv Puri

Founder & Managing Director
TVF Capital Advisors

Shiv Puri is the Founder and Managing Director of TVF Capital Advisors. The TVF Fund is one of the leading foreign portfolio investors in public equities in India. The Fund has consistently ranked near the top of its peer set over the last 1,3,5 years. Puri has 15 years of investing experience in global equity markets including 12 years in Indian equity markets. He has appeared on CNBC, ET Now, Bloomberg TV and Zee TV. He has been quoted in the Economic Times and the Singapore Business Times. Mr. Puri holds a B.S. degree with honors in Finance at the Wharton School and a B.S. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to being an entrepreneur, Puri has had extensive experience in finance by working at leading institutions such as Brookside Capital in Boston, Crescendo Ventures in Silicon Valley and Morgan Stanley in New York. At Brookside Capital, he was responsible for making investments primarily in the technology sector for the $4 billion public equity fund. Prior to that, he worked at Crescendo Ventures, a $600 million venture capital firm investing in early stage companies. He started his career at Morgan Stanley in New York in their Real Estate private equity group.

Puri is a member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO) in Mumbai and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He is on the management council of Indian Business Leaders Roundtable along with several other Asian business leaders. He is one of the founders of Ashoka University in Sonepat and lifetime benefactor of the Singapore India Education Trust. He is passionate about education related philanthropic causes.
Puri works and resides in Singapore. He is an avid golfer and was a member of Penn’s golf team that won the Ivy League golf championship in 1997. For his contribution, he was awarded the prestigious Academic All American award.

Shankar Sharma

Founder & Head of Global Strategy
First Global

Mr. Sharma is the founder of First Global and heads it global strategy group. First Global is a full-service securities house, servicing primarily an institutional client base, across the US, UK, Europe and India. Within the institutional set, First Global deals primarily with global hedge funds devising trading strategies for them globally, including long/short combinations. Mr. Sharma began his career at Citibank in its investment banking division in Mumbai.

Mr. Sharma has an MBA from Asian Institute of Management, Manila where he finished on the Dean’s List and has been widely quoted in the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Financial Times, and has been featured on shows like The Mind of The Market on NDTV Profit, in addition to being a guest on several shows on finance and the markets on several channels and at events both in India and abroad.

Sunil Singhania

Founder
Abakkus Asset Managers LLP

Sunil Singhania is the Founder of Abakkus Asset Managers LLP, an India focused Asset Management Company he has set up in 2018.

Prior to this, in his role as Global Head – Equities at Reliance Capital Ltd., he oversaw equity assets and provided strategic inputs across Reliance Capital Group of companies including asset management, insurance, AIF and offshore assets. And as CIO – Equities, Sunil led Reliance Mutual Fund equity schemes to be rated amongst the best. Reliance Growth Fund grew over 100 times in less than 22 years under Sunil’s leadership. Furthermore, he leads Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Ltd.’s international efforts and has been instrumental in launching India funds in Japan, South Korea, and the UK, besides managing mandates from institutional investors based in the US, Singapore, and other countries.

Sunil graduated in commerce from the Bombay University and completed his Chartered Accountancy from the ICAI, Delhi with an all India rank. He has also earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, conferred by CFA Institute, USA. Sunil is first from India, to be elected as the Director of the Global Board of Governors of CFA Institute, USA. Sunil is also the Chairman of the Investment Committee of the CFA Institute and also sits on its Nomination Committee.

Sunil was the promoter of The Association of NSE Members of India; a body of stockbrokers. He also sat on the Standards and Practice Council of the CFA Institute, USA, for 6 years. Sunil was the founder of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals, the CFA India society and was its president for a continuous period of eight years. Having traveled extensively across the world, Sunil has attended many global investment conferences and seminars.

Navneet Munot

Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer
SBI Mutual Fund

Navneet joined SBI Funds Management Private Limited as Chief Investment Officer in December 2008. He brings with him over 21 years of rich experience in Financial Markets. In his previous assignment, he was the Executive Director & head – multi – strategy boutique with Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley Investment Management, he worked as the Chief Investment Officer – Fixed Income and Hybrid Funds at Birla Sun Life Asset Management Company Ltd. Several funds managed by Navneet got recognition for their consistent superior risk-adjusted performance and won several awards from independent agencies such as CRISIL-CNBC TV 18, ICRA, Reuters Lipper and got top ranking in Value Research.

Navneet had been associated with the financial services business of the group for over 18 years and worked in various areas such as fixed income, equities and foreign exchange. His articles on matters related to financial markets have widely been published. Navneet is a postgraduate in accountancy and business statistics and a qualified Chartered Accountant. He is also a charter holder of the CFA Institute USA and CAIA Institute USA. He is also an FRM charter holder of Global Association of Risk professionals (GARP).