The people mentioned below are a few of the who’s who of the financial world. They conduct lectures at our coaching institute as CFA industry experts, to equip the candidates with real life implications of the concepts learnt.
Our CFA Industry expert, Ankit shah has experience of more than 10 years in Finance industry. Currently (for about 5 years now) employed with North American Equity Sales Desk at Edelweiss Securities. His primary responsibilities include putting in place a strategy to increase the width in the coverage universe across US & Canada based funds, conducting road shows & executing conferences in US.
Prior to this Ankit was part of another startup Violet Arch Securities where again he was responsible to set up the Domestic Institutional Desk right from Zero. Before Violet Arch he was part of Darashaw and was responsible for setting up the institutional sales desk right from scratch. Ankit has also experience in IT domain where he was working as Software Engineer at Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Ankit Shah has done his MBA from MDI, Gurgaon with a specialisation in Finance & Marketing. Ankit also holds Bachelors in Engg. (IT) & Masters in Business Economics from Mumbai University. Ankit has also completed CFA professional certification and am currently a charter holder & a member of the local India society.
Our CFA Industry expert, Jigar Jani has over 14 years of experience with more than 10 years of experience across the financial domain in equity research, investment banking and consultancy.
Jigar is currently employed at Edelweiss and has also worked blue chip companies like Cognizant, Morgan Stanley, IL&FS. Jigar holds a Bachelor's of Engineering degree from Mumbai University and an MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management and has cleared all three levels of CFA and holds a CFA charter.
Our CFA Industry expert, Shrinivas Kasar is Co-Founder at Cashinvoice, a Digital Supply Chain Finance Platform. Prior to this he was working as Vice President at Strategy & New Initiatives Team at Axis Bank. Before Axis Bank, he was heading Product for Commercial Finance at Tata Capital’s corporate finance division.
Shrinivas has overall experience of 11 years in areas of corporate finance, supply chain finance, trade finance, asset finance and retail banking having worked with organisations such as Standard Chartered Bank and ICICI Bank.
Our CFA Industry expert, Ashish Kalani has work experience of more than 13 years. He is currently Head Treasury for Clix Group. Prior to becoming Head Treasury, he was involved in corporate lending, debt capital markets and treasury.
Prior to joining Clix Capital in July 2017, he worked for 3 years in the Debt Capital Markets team of Axis Bank from September 2014 and was looking after corporate origination and structuring for corporate bonds. Prior to Axis he spent 7 years with ICICI Bank in various roles and responsibilities in Financial Institutions and Syndication Group.
He was a core member to set up credit bond desk at ICICI bank over and above his experience of selling other products to domestic institutional market.
Our CFA Industry expert, Ankit has more than a decade of work experience in financial services industry and is responsible for institutional partnerships, finance, process improvements and sales and marketing strategy. He has worked with companies such as Morgan Stanley, HSBC and India Infoline. Currently he is at the position of Chief Operating Officer at Rapipay Fintech Pvt Ltd.
Ankit is an IT engineer from University of Mumbai, MBA from Melbourne Business School and has completed CFA level 2 from CFA Institute USA.