Srikanth Iyengar — CEO
~ Srikanth Iyengar is an entrepreneurial Senior Management professional in Capital Markets with strong expertise in Equity Investing, Hedge Funds, Financial Derivatives and Risk Management. He is currently a long term value investor in listed and unlisted equities. ~He has an excellent strategic understanding of Indian financial services; having worked in creating the capital market infrastructure at NSE and then working closely with successful entrepreneurs in the domain since their pre IPO days. ~ Srikanth was part of the "Core Group" to set up the equity derivatives market and risk management in the country with National Stock Exchange of India. ~ Earlier he was involved in consulting assignments which included: * India Consulting: Consulted with Aditya Birla Group in India to set up a commodity hedging desk for hedging the metal price risk of their metals production * Overseas Consulting: Strategize the risk management practices for Chubb Insurance and Credit Suisse Private Banking in New York and Singapore respectively ~ After the start of the derivatives market in India, Srikanth has been leading the initiation and management of alternative investment management desks with P& L responsibilities managing a team of 30+ professionals from Ivy league colleges. ~ He ran a Multi Strategy fund for over a decade encompassing Algo trading, quantitative long/short, relative value, gamma trading, special situation trades et al. The fund had an impressive track record without a negative quarter over the tenure(2003-14). ~ He won the HFM week award for "Single Manager long term performance (3 years & more) in Asia -2012. His business was a leading market maker for listed ETF's in India with over 70% market share.He also ran the portfolio analytics and math works for "Value Investing" portfolio of over $500M. ~ Currently, he is involved in running an absolute return fund and investing in startups,Energy Transition and BESS businesses.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned professional in Fintech and Capital Markets with a focus on alternative investments.
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 22 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Alternative Investments
- Energy Transition
- Multi Strategy Fund Management
- Portfolio Analytics
Career Highlights
- Led the establishment of India's equity derivatives market.
- Managed a Multi Strategy fund with consistent double-digit alpha.
- Consulted for top firms like Credit Suisse and Chubb Insurance.
Work Experience
Five Capital LLP
Managing Partner (11 yrs 5 mos)
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd
CEO & Director - Principal Strategies Group (6 yrs 6 mos)
Sharekhan Ltd.
Senior Vice President - Multi Strategy Fund (1 yr 7 mos)
ING
Chief Investment Officer (8 mos)
Edelweiss Capital
Vice President and Director (2 yrs 3 mos)
Education
FE & RM at Columbia University
Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Welingkar Institute of Management
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom at University of Mumbai