Motilal Oswal is the Chairman and Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. (MOFSL). He is a Chartered Accountant and started the business along with co-promoter, Raamdeo Agrawal in 1987.He has served on the Governing Board of the BSE, Indian Merchant’s Chamber (IMC) and has also served on various committees of BSE, NSE, SEBI and CDSL. For his work and contribution to the capital markets, Mr. Oswal has been felicitated with several awards and accolades including Excellent Business Achiever in Financial Services’ Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Special Contribution award to Indian Capital Markets’ Award by Zee Business, The Hall of Fame for Excellence in Franchising’ by Franchising World Magazine and many more. He has authored two books of quotations on ‘The Essence of Business & Management’ and ‘The Essence of Life’.
One of the prominent faces of Indian Mutual fund industry, Mr. Sankaran Naren is the Chief Investment Officer of Equities ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company Limited since February 2008 and its Executive Director since April 22, 2016. Mr. Naren joined the firm in October 2004 and oversees the entire investment function across the mutual fund and the international advisory business. Mr. Naren has several years of experience in almost all spectrum of the financial services industry His core competency lies in being involved in the entire gamut of equity market space with extensive knowledge of Indian equities and the economy. Mr. Naren served as the Chief Executive Officer at Yoha Securities from December 1995 to September 2000. He had also worked at Refco Sify Securities India Pvt. Ltd.& HDFC Securities Ltd Mr. Naren earned an MBA in Finance from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and a B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Mr. Navneet Munot, CFA is an Executive Director at SBI Funds Management Private Limited and has been its Chief Investment Officer since joining the firm in December 2008. Mr. Munot is responsible for managing Indian multi-strategy products at the firm. He has a vast experience in financial markets. Previously, Mr. Munot was an Executive Director and Head of Multi-Strategy at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Mr. Munot had been associated with the financial services business of the firm for over 13 years. Mr. Munot is a CFA charter & a qualified Chartered Accountant. He is also an FRM charter holder .
Ashish Gumastha is currently the Managing Director of Julius Baer and is associated with the organisation for the last two years. Prior to this he was the Managing Director – Investments at DSP Merrill Lynch. With 16 years of experience in the wealth management business, Ashish has been a founder member of the Global Private Client business at DSP Merrill Lynch; and is also a part of the Merrill Lynch ‘Circle of Champions’ a title assigned to only the most outperforming Advisors of Merrill Lynch from across the world
Harsha Bhogle is widely acknowledged to be not just the voice, but the face of Indian cricket. He brings a fresh perspective to cricket and is seen as a voice of reason which makes him acceptable across all cultures. His interesting background, a chemical engineer and an alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad, India’s premier business school, has made him a role model for many. Bhogle is perhaps in a class of one” Adam Gilchrist called him “India’s Richie Benaud equivalent and the guru of cricket from India”.
Abhinav Aggarwal is the CEO and Founder of Fluid AI (www.fluid.ai. He was a part of the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list for 2017. Abhinav's a Chartered Accountant, however, he always had a passion for coding and is a self-taught coder, who was a winner at one of the world’s biggest 24 hour coding competitions, the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York.
Revolutionizing the Artificial Intelligence space his company Fluid AI provides AI based solutions for one of the largest banks in the USA.They were recently featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine for Asia’s 30 under 30 list. And also telecasted by the BBC World News across 70 countries .They were also selected as the top 35 start-ups in India by Indian Prime Minster Narendra Modi's StartupIndia campaign. He has also been a TedX speaker on Artificial Intelligence and keynote speaker at the Intel International Conference in Taiwan.
One of the most popular & leading Fund Managers in the country, Mr. Madhusudan Kela has been Chief Investment Strategist at Reliance Capital Limited since August 2010. Mr. Kela served as the Chief Investment Officer of Reliance Capital. He served as the Head of Equity Investments for Reliance Capital Asset Management Limited since June 8, 2006. Mr Kela holds a Masters Degree in Management (Year 1991) from Mumbai University and has more than 20 years of valuable experience in stock markets.
Vijay Goyal is a qualified Chartered Accountant (Rank holder) and also a Cost Accountant. He started his career as a management trainee with Birla Global Finance. He spent 11 years with Aditya Birla Group Financial Services where he worked with Birla Global Finance, Birla Mutual Fund and Birla Sun Life Distribution Company. He was the head of insurance distribution from 2002 to 2004. He then moved to head the PCG and Direct Retail group of Birla Sun Life Distribution. He is a veteran in the Industry and brings in an ocean of experience and ideas with himself. Vijay joined MOFSL in 2007 and heads the Private Wealth Management business of MOFSL.
Mr. Somaiyaa holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Polymer Science and a Masters in Management Studies in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai. Aashish brings with him rich and varied experience - with more than 13 years in sales and distribution, channel management, product development and institutional sales from ICICI Prudential AMC and a brief stint at project management with Bharti AXA Investment Managers. Mr. Somaiyaa joined Motilal Oswal Group in 2013 and is the Managing Director & CEO at Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company Ltd.
Raamdeo Agrawal is the man behind the strong research capabilities at Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. He is the Joint Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited (MOFSL) and also the co-founder of Motilal Oswal Securities Limited (MOSL). A keen believer of Warren Buffets Investment philosophy and practitioner of the QGLP philosophy, his wealth creation insights and decades-rich experience have played a pivotal role in MOFSL, transforming it from a small stock broking firm to a well-diversified financial services company. Mr. Agarwal is also known as the Warren Buffet of India in the industry. Mr. Agrawal specializes in equity research. He has been authoring the annual Motilal Oswal Wealth Creation Study since 1996. In 1986, he wrote the book ‘Corporate Numbers Game’, along with co-author, Ram K Piparia. He has featured on `Wizards of Dalal Street on CNBC TV 18` and also compiled a book of investing insights called ‘Wealth Creation Thoughts’.
Ajay Menon is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He started his career with Sesa Seat Information Systems and joined MOSL in 1998 as a Manager. With his experience of over 18 years in Capital Markets, he currently is the CEO – MOSL and heads the Broking & Distribution business. He is also the Whole Time Director of MOSL.
Navin Agarwal is the Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited. He is responsible for the Institutional Broking and Investment Banking Businesses and has been instrumental in building a market leading position in the Institutional Broking business. Under his leadership, the firm has been rated as The Best Indian Brokerage House by Asia money. He started his career as a Senior Analyst with Insight Asset Management in 1994. In the year 1996, he was appointed the Head of Research & subsequently took up the additional responsibility of Portfolio Management in 1998. He has also co-authored a Book ‘India’s Money Monarchs’ featuring interactions with India’s leading investment managers. His hobbies are reading and travelling.
Mr. Gautam Duggad has been associated with Motilal Oswal for close to two years now. Graduated from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and did his B.Tech from UDCT. He brings with him over 11 years of experience. He has worked with P&G and his last stint was with Prabhudas Lilladher. He heads a team of 24 research analysts covering over 200 companies across 27 sectors and 16 commodities at MOFSL. He is rated highly amongst clients for his coverage on various Sectors & companies
His Ability to think in patterns of the market is unparalled. Approaching the markets with incisive logic, a deep understanding of the various schools of thought, and an uncanny knack of cracking the most difficult codes , he has found a ground breaking approach to the eternal problem of the Financial markets – the Trend Reversal patterns of the Markets. Anant has worked extensively with the leading lights of the financial markets. His work with Elliott Wave Guru. RicharSwannell, to develop the world’s only Pattern Recognizing Software , is very well documented and recognized. He has also worked extensively with the World’s Most Successful Traders and Technician. His clients span across 4 countries and include some of the wealthiest people in the world. He has presented exciting and informative Workshops and Seminars in New York , Los Angeles , Las Vegas = Singapore, London, Sydney and Macau.
Mr Amitabh Kant is presently CEO, NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India). NITI is a Government of India institution for catalysing the development process, nurturing an overall enabling environment by working in partnership with States, by being a Knowledge hub and a Think Tank by facilitating implementation. Amitabh Kant is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 Batch). He is the author of “Branding India – An Incredible Story” and has been a key driver of “Make in India”, Startup India, “Incredible India” and “God’s Own Country” initiatives which positioned and branded India and Kerala State as leading manufacturing tourism destinations. Kant also conceptualized and executive the “AtithiDevoBhavah” – “Guest is God” campaign to train Taxi Drivers, Guides, immigration officials and make them stake holders in the tourism development process..
He has been the recipient of Economic Time Policy Change Agent of the Year Award, the Bloomberg TV Personality of the year Award, the NDTV Administrator of the year Award and the Distinguished Fellowship of the Institute of Directors. He is the recipient of One Globe Award-2016 for leadership in Transforming Governance for the 21st Century. He is a Member of the Steering Board of “Shaping the Future of Production Systems” of World Economic Forum.