Aug 2022 – Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Started from scratch the hedge fund business for InCred focused on systematic/quant/long-short strategies

Jun 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• I started the quant investing division at Avendus within their hedge fund unit and helped them to launch a couple of quant-based long-short strategies for the Indian markets

Jan 2012 – May 2021 · 9 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Me and my quant team got carved-off from Suyash to an independent firm called ProAlpha Systematic Capital which was a partnership between me and Monsoon Capital and I remained the portfolio manager of Monsoon's systematic quant funds for global offshore investors - Monsoon India Opportunity Fund which was focused on India and Monsoon Asia-Pacific Systematic which was focussed on Asia. We started the first Indian managed futures quant strategy for onshore local Indian investors and created the longest ever track record in the space for India with attractive returns. Subsequently, we created a new Monsoon subsidiary called ProAlpha Capital where we started the first fundamental factor oriented investment strategy in 2014 and among the first volatility-arbitrage focused strategy for India in 2020. I was the CIO of all these quant investment products at ProAlpha and managed a close-knit loyal and hard-working team that stuck together through good and bad times from the start till the end!

Aug 2007 – Dec 2011 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• I was the Portfolio Manager of India's first systematic quantitative hedge fund which was an idea and model i developed that was seeded by one of the largest India-only alternative investment firms based out of the US called Monsoon Capital. The model and my small team took 2 years to test and build and the fund went live from September 2009. It was great fun to play around with numbers and use probability in interesting ways to structure a robust model and portfolio. Managed a $40mn FPI equity multi-strat quant fund in this period and also started India's first managed futures focused hedge fund product for local onshore Indian investors in 2011.

Feb 2004 – Jul 2007 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• I started the insitutional equity derivatives broking desk for SSKI in February 2004. Starting from scratch and despite us being the last large brokerages among foreign and domestic names to start the derivatives business, i quickly built it into one of the leading equity F&O brokers with >5% market-share by the time i left in 2007. I was responsible for many industry-firsts like starting dedicated options research and quant research and focusing on directional and options-based trading ideas to large hedge fund and foreign bank owned prop desk clients rather than just stock-futures arbitrage which was the main flavor for most of the industry then. Did some of the largest options trades in those years with the first $1bn 4-legged Nifty options trade in 2006!

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• I was part of the 3-member equity derivatives institutional broking desk which was responsible for getting most of the initial FII equity derivatives trades in the country making us the top equity derivatives broker in India. Was responsible for derivatives research. Also helped manage a small equity prop-desk before moving full time to the derivatives broking desk.