Board of Directors
Sushil Kedia, 1969, has been traversing the Indian Equity markets for close to last two decades with a career that has spanned varied roles as a successful analyst, trader, broker, strategist, and investment manager. He has worked in the past for companies such as ING Barings, Standard Chartered Bank, and Devonshire Capital as well as with a few of the best Indian financial services names.
He is a qualified Chartered Market Technician as well as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. He brings to the table a unique faculty at blending fundamental value assessments with Technical & Quantitative Market timing frameworks.
He is a Post Graduate in Business Management from the XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business. He has continued to pursue varied learning programs and recently earned the FRM certification from GARP. He is writing the Level III exam of the CFA program and is also pursuing a Masters in Financial Engineering from The National University of Singapore.
He is one of the earliest Alternative Investment professionals in the Indian markets and has done significant work in the arenas of market timing, derivatives strategy, quantitative trading, and investing in the Indian context.
His focus is India and his keen interest is in every other liquid and tradable market on the globe from across commodities, currencies, and equity indices.
He has been a regular columnist, market commentator in the various media, regular speaker at various industry conferences in India and overseas, and a highly networked professional who brings multi-faceted holistic perspectives on Indian markets with global inter-market analytics across time spans ranging from intraday to multi-year time fractals.
Sushil has been married for fourteen years and has two daughters. His hobbies include playing chess, swimming, studying crowds, cookery, writing and reading.
Nitesh Khandelwal started his professional career in India's leading private sector bank's treasury. He dealt with FX and interest rate derivative products before moving to a proprietary trading desk trading across various asset classes. He is currently running his own algorithmic trading and technology services firm.
Nitesh is pursuing CMT program and completed his level 2 exam. He did his Bachelors in Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur before doing his Post graduation in Management from IIM Lucknow. He has been a student of technical analysis since early college days and also managed India's biggest student investment fund.
He is also an avid trekking enthusiast and had gone backpacking for several peaks in the Great Himalayas during past years.
Dr. Regan Firdosh Homavazir started his trading career at the age of eighteen while he was studying in college. Although he understood very little of the stock markets then, he decided to make a career in this field. His father has been very instrumental in encouraging his initiative and supported his endeavor. He still believes that he is a student of the market and continues to learn more.
His focus spans across Commodities, Currencies, G-Sec & the Equity Market although his core research competence revolves around the Equity Asset Class.
Regan in his search for excellence has progressed from being a Management Trainee to an Associate Vice President for Darashaw & Co. Pvt. Ltd. with his experience traversing from being a Core Research Associate graduating to being a Fund Manager.
He is a Graduate in Business Management and an MBA in Finance. He has also completed his Doctorate. He is a level III candidate of the Chartered Market Technician program. He believes that his People Management skills have been his greatest asset.
His career objective is to gain knowledge and position, to become a guiding force in the future of an organisation. To work as part of a high profile team in a growing and innovative environment, where his skill set, experience and academic background can be positively deployed, thus allowing him the opportunities for technical excellence and growth.
An Electronics Engineer from IT-BHU and an MBA from IIM Bangalore, Sanjeev is a dynamic & visionary entrepreneur. He last promoted Dynamix Research & Capital Management Private Limited with a focus on generating superlative returns for its clients irrespective of market conditions. Decoding the mystery of market movements always interested him immensely. After starting as a Fundamental Analyst he was completely enamored by the charm of Technical analysis. More than 19 years in the Indian Stock market in various roles have given him a deep understanding of the market pulse.
A firm believer in traditional Indian values, he loves to spend time with his joint family. He is blessed with a lovely daughter & a doting son. His fondness for reading & travelling has imbibed in him the zeal to keep re-inventing strategies to reap maximum benefits. An avid philanthropist at heart, he actively works for the welfare of the weaker sections of society. He has also been conferred the "Paul Harris Fellowship" by Rotary International.
Ujjwal is an FX trader with Standard Chartered Bank since 2007. He actively uses technical analysis, especially trend following and momentum indicators, in his field of work.
He has done B. Tech (Hons) in Electrical Engg from N.I.T. Jamshedpur. He went on to complete his MBA (Finance) from FMS, Delhi University. He is a certified FRM from GARP institute. He has successfuly passed all the three levels of CMT and has applied for membership. He also happens to be a Level 3 candidate for CFA program.
He takes active interest in teaching. His hobbies include playing chess and listening to music. He is a foodie and loves seafood.
Ashish Kyal, born in 1981, started his career as a Business Analyst with NSE.iT - a 100% subsidiary of National Stock Exchange of India. For one of the projects, Ashish was on deputation at National Commodity and Derivative Exchange (NCDEX) of India, where his responsibilities involved assisting in designing and developing a road map for Risk Management model for Futures and Options commodity market. He is currently associated with one of the leading Investment Banks and is heading a team of Risk / Quantitative Analysts within Capital Markets division. He is responsible for quantifying and evaluating risk on Portfolios of Global Hedge Funds. He has also lead a project to carry out Short Interest analysis for Security Lending and Borrowing, developed a tool that can be used as a Sentiment indicator and can analyze likelihood of Short Squeeze. He has more than four years of Capital Market's experience dealing with derivatives and global assets. He has been highly appreciated for effective team management and exceeding the expectations, increasing the productivity and operating standards of the team.
Ashish has done his Masters of Management Studies from Somaiya Institute of Management Studies & Research and did his Bachelor of Engineering from Mumbai University. He has cleared all 3 levels of Chartered Market Technician. He has done NCFM Certification in Derivatives Module - 91.5%.
Ashish has written a few articles for "Technically Speaking" (MTA Newsletter USA). He actively blog his views on Equity markets using orthodox as well as advanced technical tools like Elliott wave analysis and Time Cycles. He has written extensively on a host of Global assets including Metals, Alternative Energy, Agro Commodities, Bonds, across multiple time frames for Orpheus Capitals - European Alternative Research firm.
He has given lectures and has also been a guest speaker at a host of colleges under Mumbai University and conducted orientation to spread awareness and importance of Technical Analysis.
Ashish is very passionate about technical analysis and his hobbies are traveling, writing poems and listening to music.
Suvarna is a Technical Analyst at Darashaw & Co. Pvt. Ltd. since 2006. She has a Bachelors in Management Studies from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. Her journey in Technical Research has evolved from being a Graduate Trainee to an Asst. Vice President, thus far. Her responsibilities include tracking Domestic Markets as well as Various Asset Classes, identifying the Flow of Funds. She extensively uses Price & Indicator patterns, Candlesticks and Momentum Indicators.
She is currently pursuing Chartered Market Technician program and enrolled for the level III examination.
Besides Technical Analysis, Suvarna is passionate about Photography & Sailing.
Vishal Prakash Dalvi is an MBA from N.L.Dalmia Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He has done his B.E. in Electronics & Telecommunication, from VasantDada Patil College, Mumbai.
He is an Affiliate member of the reputed Market Technicians Association. He has passed his CMT Level 1.
He is an Affiliate member of Chartered Financial Analyst Institute. He has passed his CFA Level 1 examination and appeared for CFA Level 2 examination in June 2010.
Currently he works in the Commodities & FOREX Advisory department of ANAND RATHI as a Technical Analyst. He worked as a Research Analyst with Commtrendz Risk Management Services, looking into the trading and advisory role for its Clients in asset classes like Commodities & FOREX before joining ANAND RATHI.
Prior to his MBA, he worked with Infosys Technologies Ltd. for 2 years and worked for Clients like Atena & Daimler Chrysler.
He has spoken as a guest speaker at the Cotton Association of India, teaching Technical Analysis to their members. He has also conducted courses on Technical Analysis in few MBA and BFM colleges under Mumbai University and also conducted orientation lectures to educate students the importance of Technical Analysis.
Vishal actively blog his views on various asset classes like Equities, Commodities & FOREX using Elliott Wave Principle and other classical technical tools.
