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.

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).

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.

Kenneth Andrade

Founder & CIO
Old Bridge Capital Management

Kenneth Andrade is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Old Bridge Capital Management. Old Bridge Capital was founded on Dec2015. Kenneth manages the investment process and leads investment ideation. Along with over 25 years of experience in Indian Capital Markets, portfolio management and investment research he has a 13-year track record managing some of India’s most successful equity funds.

Kenneth’s experience in includes the 10 years as the CIO at IDFC Asset Management Company, which was ranked amongst the top 8 in the Mutual Fund industry in India, Year 2005 – 2015 and a three year assignment as a portfolio manager with the Kotak Mutual Fund between 2002-2005.

At IDFC Mutual Fund, he managed the firm’s flagship fund, IDFC Premier Equity Fund which delivered a CAGR growth of 22.3% over the ten-year period. Currently at Old Bridge Capital Management, he over looks a corpus of $170mn with a team of 3 investment professionals.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Partner
Rare Enterprises

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala manages his own portfolio as a partner in his asset management firm, Rare Enterprises. Mr. Jhunjhunwala is the chairman of Aptech and Hungama Digital Media and sits on the board of directors of various Indian companies including Prime Focus, Geojit BNP Paribas Financial Services, Bilcare, Praj Industries, Provogue, Concord Biotech, Innovasynth, Mid Day Multimedia, Nagarjuna Construction, Viceroy Hotels and Tops Security.

Mr. Jhunjhunwala is a graduate of Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Sankaran Naren

Chief Investment Officer
ICICI Prudential Asset Management

Sankaran Naren, the Chief Investment Officer of ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company (AMC) is known for being a contrarian and value investor. An interesting facet of his investing style is he will invest against the tide and stick to his convictions.

Naren is a leading voice on the Indian capital markets and his views on macro and markets feature prominently across media locally and globally.

With more than two and half decades of experience in capital markets, Naren has been instrumental in the overall investment strategy development and execution at ICICI Prudential AMC. He currently manages some of the flagship schemes for the fund house delivering an impeccable track record.

By qualification, he holds a B-Tech degree from IIT Madras and PGDM from IIM Kolkata.

Akash Prakash

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Amansa Capital

Akash Prakash is the Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Amansa Capital Pte. Ltd., an India focused fund. He also manages the overall market risk and acts as the Chief Investment Officer for Amansa Funds’ investment portfolio.

Prior to establishing Amansa Capital in end 2006, Akash was Director of Investments for Temasek Holdings (India). He was responsible for coordinating all of Temasek’s public market and private equity investments in India.

Before joining Temasek, Akash spent 6 years as a Portfolio Manager for GIC – The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation where he managed US, Pan-Asian and Indian investment portfolios.

Akash also spent 6 years in the 1990s with Morgan Stanley Asset Management where he was an Executive Director and Portfolio Manager of the Morgan Stanley Growth Fund. He also had responsibility over the India Investment Fund. MSAM was one of India’s largest foreign investors during this period.

Shiv Puri

Founder and Managing Director
TVF Capital Advisors

Shiv Puri is the Founder and Managing Director of TVF Capital Advisors. The TVF Fund is one the leading foreign portfolio investors in public equities in India. 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 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 other several 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 and 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.

Rukhshad Shroff

Portfolio Manager and India Country Specialist
J.P. Morgan Asset Management

Rukhshad Shroff, managing director, is a country specialist for Indian Equities and head of the India Team within the Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific (EMAP) Equities Team based in Hong Kong. He leads the India-dedicated equity portfolio management teams in Hong Kong and Mumbai. Rukhshad joined the firm in 1994 as a strategist and equity analyst in India.

Prior to joining the firm, he spent two years with Securities Analysis India Private as an equity analyst. Rukhshad obtained a B.Com. and a M.Com. from the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics in India. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Sunil Singhania

CIO Equity Investments
Reliance Mutual Fund

Sunil Singhania is CIO – Equity Investments at Reliance Mutual Fund. Sunil graduated in commerce from the Bombay University and completed his Chartered Accountancy from 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 has a total experience of over 21 years. Before his association with Reliance Mutual Fund, Sunil gained considerable experience on sell side in Indian equity market.

Hiren Ved

Co-Founder
Alchemy Capital Management

Mr. Hiren Ved joined the Alchemy team in 1999, spearheading and setting up the firm’s wealth management business. With over two decades of experience in the Indian equity markets, he has created a solid foundation in bottom-up research and stock picking with extensive coverage of companies across sectors through management meetings. A qualified cost accountant, Mr. Ved also holds a Diploma in Banking & Finance.

Saurabh Mukherjea

CEO of the Institutional Equities Business
Ambit

Saurabh Mukherjea is the CEO of the Institutional Equities business at Ambit. One of the top three analysts in India according to Asiamoney 2013, Saurabh has spent most of the past decade making sense of the chaos that surrounds the Indian stock market. A London School of Economics alumnus and a CFA charterholder, Saurabh lives in Mumbai with his wife and two children.

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).