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Mr. Manish Gunwani serves as the Chief Investment Officer – Equity at Bandhan AMC. He brings rich fund management experience and an excellent track record of wealth creation for investors. Mr. Gunwani’s proven expertise and successful track record has helped further enhance the equity franchise of the fund house.Mr. Gunwani has over 30 years of rich experience, covering the entire gamut of equity research as well as fund management. In his previous assignment, Mr. Gunwani was the Chief Investment Officer – Equities at Nippon India Mutual Fund where he was responsible for equity AUM exceeding Rs 1.2 lakh crores. Under his leadership, equity funds saw broad-based and steady improvement in performance. Before this, he was the Deputy CIO (Equities) at ICICI Prudential AMC, where he was instrumental in scaling up two flagship funds to a cumulative AUM of over Rs. 35,000 crores.An alumnus of IIT Madras, Mr. Gunwani also holds a postgraduate diploma in management from IIM Bangalore. Beyond his professional sphere, Manish takes a keen interest in reading about historic events and follows football.

Jatin Khemani is the Managing Partner & CIO at Stalwart Investment Advisors LLP, a SEBI-registered Portfolio Management Services Firm. Jatin has 15 years of experience in investment analysis and portfolio management. Prior to founding Stalwart Advisors in 2014, Jatin was working with a Delhi-based family office as the head of research. He is a CFA (US) Charter holder, and also holds an MBA in Finance.
Jatin has a passion for teaching – he is an instructor at the FLAME Investment Lab, Pune and also hosts Indian Investing Conclave, a pioneer in online investing conference. As a way of giving back to society, he has been an active volunteer with The Art of Living since 2006, where he has led multiple state level fund-raising campaigns.

Swanand is the Managing Partner of Breakout Capital Advisors which manages about USD 1.7 bn. in public equities across India and Emerging Markets . Before co-founding Breakout, Swanand worked at Morgan Stanley Investment Management for 14 years overseeing the firm’s Indian public investments. He joined Morgan Stanley as an Analyst in 2007 and rose through the ranks to become Managing Director in 2017. Funds advised by Swanand had top decile performance between 2014 and 2018 and won the best fund award in Citywire rankings in 2017. Before Morgan Stanley, Swanand has worked with Fidelity International and HSBC Asset Management Swanand is a Chartered Accountant and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. He has been an op-ed contributor to Mint, Bloomberg and Money Control writing on investing, emerging markets and macro.In 2020 Swanand took a one-year sabbatical from his corporate job.  During that year he became a qualified yoga teacher certified by World Yoga Alliance, published short stories, trained at the Gary Kirsten cricket academy in Cape Town and learnt how to cook a five-course meal. Swanand supports a grassroots initiative for women cricketers and a school for the underprivileged in Mumbai.  

Vikrant Gupta is Founder and Partner at Apricus Wealth Investment Managers LLP, a SEBI-registered portfolio management and investment advisory firm. He has more than 15 years of experience across portfolio management, equity research and investment consulting. Prior to founding Apricus Wealth, Vikrant spent close to a decade with Antares Equities in Melbourne, as part of the Australian equities team managing $6 billion in assets, where he focused on company research and active portfolio management. He began his professional career with Russell Investments, advising institutional clients on strategic asset allocation. Vikrant is a CFA Charterholder and holds a Master of Financial Analysis and a Master of Accounting from Melbourne, along with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Delhi. Outside investing, he enjoys playing poker and scuba diving

Sanjay Bakshi is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Finance at Flame University in Pune, where he teaches behavioral economics and business and investment analysis to undergraduate students and experienced investors in executive programs. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor at Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, where he taught behavioral finance and business valuation for 21 years. He is also a Managing Partner at ValueQuest Capital LLP, a SEBI-registered investment adviser that advises its onshore and offshore clients on their public-market investments in India. The firm is also the investment manager of an Alternative Investment Fund. Sanjay has been advising family offices on their public market investments for 32 years. Sanjay received an M.Sc. (Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a B.Com. (Hons.) from the University of Delhi. He is also a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is 60 years old and lives in New Delhi.

Jitendra Chawla brings over 25 years of experience in investment management, asset allocation, portfolio structuring, and relationship management. He currently serves as the Business Head (North) at PPFAS AMC. Prior to this, he held key positions at Deutsche Private Wealth, Citi Wealth Advisors, Kotak Private Wealth, ABN AMRO Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank. Jitendra holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Delhi University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management, and is a CFA charterholder. Additionally, he has been an active volunteer with CFA Society India for the past 15 years and previously served as a Director on the society’s board.

Maran is one of Unifi’s co-founders and currently holds the position of Executive Director. Starting his journey in capital market in early 90s, he has worked with some of the leading names in the financial markets. He currently manages some of Unifi’s key client relationships and has also been instrumental in spearheading Unifi’s initiatives into niche investment strategies and new geographies. His passion for granular details about Indian economy and consumption pattern helped to develop thematic investing styles far ahead of time. He generously shares his thoughts with data as a sought after speaker in academic and industry forums.

Gaurav is currently Director on the Board of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (CFA India Society). He also serves as Executive Director at Avendus Wealth Management. He has over 22 years of experience in Wealth management in India managing and advising Ultra high net-worth clients on end-to-end advisory including portfolio management, offshore investments, estate planning and family office solutions. Previously he had a successful 19 year stint at Kotak Wealth Management (now Kotak Private) working in various roles in family office advisory and client relations.

He has been an active member of the CFA Society India since 2012 and served as Co-Chair, Professional learning committee, leading the Delhi chapter.

He completed his BBS (Finance) from Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Delhi University in 2004 and attained his CFA Charter in 2011.

Anshul Saigal has spent over 26 years in Indian capital markets. Most recently he served as the Principal Officer at Kotak AMC PMS until November 2023. Over 16 years at Kotak PMS, Anshul helped set investment strategy and managed portfolios through multiple market cycles. He now invests full-time through his family office, Saigal Capital Advisors LLP. Before Kotak, he worked in equity research and corporate credit at JP Morgan, ICICI Bank, and Standard Chartered Bank, which gave him grounding in equity analysis, portfolio management, and credit evaluation.

Ashwini Damani is Associate Vice President, Investments & Risk at Ratnabali Group in Kolkata, where he leads sector-agnostic equity research and heads the risk function.

He brings 17 years of experience with financial statements. He began in audit at Deloitte and EY, working on clients such as Reliance Industries and Siemens. He then moved into financial reporting at Lafarge Cement, where he closed the books for a ₹6,000 crore business, and later at GE T&D, where he was Finance Controller. In 2019 he turned his long-standing passion for investing into his profession, and along the way he helped build the research desk at Manyavar’s family office.

His hallmark is forensic analysis. Every company he considers is tested for earnings quality, cash conversion and governance before any capital goes in.

Ashwini is Co-Chair of CFA Society India’s Advocacy & Research Committee and a familiar face at our chapters, where he presents his “Forensics in Investing” session. He is a CFA charterholder, a first-attempt Chartered Accountant, and a university topper from St. Xavier’s, Kolkata.

Vidhu Shekhar is the former Country Head, India for CFA Institute. Mr. Shekhar had a career spanning more than three decades in India and abroad, including the National Stock Exchange of India, IDBI Capital Markets, and as Managing Director of E*Trade Systems (India) Pvt Ltd. He is a CFA charter holder and the founding member of CFA Society India. He was also the Vice President and a member of the Board of CFA Society India for several years.

Mr. Shekhar has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a degree in Physics from Delhi University. He has contributed extensively to policy advocacy and research throughout his career and has been a member of several industry and regulatory committees during his career. He is currently a visiting professor at several business schools and teaches courses related to corporate governance, sustainability, and ethics.