Question 1

Akshay Bhor

Accepted Answer

Akshay currently works as buy-side analyst with Goldman Sachs Investment Partners and covers Industrials, Materials and Energy sectors. 
He is a CFA level 3 candidate and is a graduate in Production Engineering from College of Engineering Pune. He has worked with John Deere for 2 years in Corporate finance and manufacturing division. During his tenure in Credence Capital his main focus was on Automobiles and Pharmaceutical spaces.

Question 2

Ashish Krishna

Accepted Answer

Ashish is graduate of IIT Madras. His passion has always been numbers and is more into quantitative analysis and technical trading. His area of expertise is mathematics, mathematicals modelling and algorithms. He is an Indian National Mathematical Olympiad awardee. He was one of the 2 students all over India to qualify the Olympiad in Class IX, and youngest and the only one to do so from Delhi region in 2004.

One of the very few in India to be invited to International mathematical Olympiad training camp for four years. He is an NBHM (National Board for higher mathematics) scholar in mathematics. Apart from number crunching, He is also coding enthusiast and was ranked AIR 10 in google AI Contest. He loves playing the classic AOE, Poker and hockey.

Question 3

Atul Bhatia

Accepted Answer

Atul graduated in B.E (CS) from NSIT, Delhi in 2010. After graduation, he worked for 2 years with the investment banking arm of J.P Morgan based out of Mumbai. As part of the Debt Capital Market team of J.P Morgan, Atul worked on bond transaction for some of the biggest institutions in Asia-Ex-Japan. His responsibilities included working on bond RFPS and Pitchbooks for corporate, Financial Institution and Sovereign clients across high grade yield spectrum. 
He was a member of the deal execution team on couple of big multi billion bond transactions out of Asia in the last two years.As part of his recent stint in the company, he worked on the newly developed offshore RMB bond market in Hong Kong market and Singapore Dollar perpetual Bond issue. To further his interest in financial market, he cleared his CFA level I examination in 2011.

Question 4

Ketan Parmar

Accepted Answer

Ketan is a graduate in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Gujrat. He has worked with Patni Computer System ltd for three years. 
He has been trading in the stock market for more than eight years. He has handled multiple portfolios with capital of around 22 Lacs at peak. He doesn't follow particular sector for trading But goes for the best performing stock of any sector. He is good in judging the market momentum and has made great profits during 2009 general elections and in period of operators play in IPO last year.

Question 5

Mohit Agarwal

Accepted Answer

Mohit is a rank holding Chartered Accountant and a commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. Mohit worked in the valuation & business modelling team of Ernst & Young. During his stint, he has valued enterprises, financial instruments & assets and advised renowned PE firms in finding investment opportunities in real estate, healthcare & education space.
He also worked with BMR advisors advising fortune 500 companies on cross border transactions and transaction advisory services in the M7A space. He has been tracking market since 2010 and has personal portfolio of around INR 80,000 with 18% yoy returns. His key focus area is healthcare and metals.

Question 6

Shilpa Agarwal

Accepted Answer

Shilpa is a CA and economics graduate from Shri Shikshyatan College, Kolkata. Before joining IIM Lucknow, she has worked with reputed CA firm in Kolkata on taxation and audit assignments of clients operating across diverse sectors like textiles, banking, construction & education. She has also worked on valuation assignments of companies undergoing demergers.
She has been tracking the derivatives markets keenly to identify arbitrage opportunity and make riskless profits. Apart from the markets, she is passionate about karate (Holds a 1st degree brown belt) and underwater diving (is a trained swimmer). She was awarded the best student all-rounder award in college.

Question 7

Shraddha Gupta

Accepted Answer

Shraddha studied economics at St Stephen's College, Delhi University, and was ranked in top 3 in her department for two consecutive years. She is passionate about macroeconomics and keenly follows the global economy, In college she was selected to be member of the financial and investment club where she got her first exposure to investing.
Where she got her first exposure to investing. She is also big fan Warren Buffet and considered time meeting with him in her final year of college as one of the best things to have ever happened to her. In college she received a campus placement offer from Citi Bank.

Question 8

Vishwas Chandra

Accepted Answer

Vishwas is a computer science engineer from PESIT, Bangalore. After his engineering, he worked with Infosys, Bangalore.
He has been tracking the equity market since 2003, which was the time when a major bull run was underway. Since then, he has been an active investor and trader and has handled multiple portfolios. His key focus area is banking and infrastructure.

Fund Managers 2012-14