2nd India Alternative Investments Conference

Rajesh Bhatia is the Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer - AIF III. Mr. Bhatia has 30+ years of investment experience in Indian equities; Last 14 years in Alternative Investments (Long-Short fund management). Prior to this he was a CIO, Simto Investments, a subsidiary of Tata Investments; proprietary book and a Co-founder & CIO, Heritage India Advisors, Indian advisor to New York based, Heritage Capital, an India long-short equity fund; The Heritage Fund was nominated as among the Top 5 funds in India for its performance in 2010, by Eureka Hedge, an independent international data provider and alternate research firm. He was also Senior VP & Head, Portfolio Management Services (PMS), Reliance Capital Asset Management; started the business unit for the firm in 2004. His other projects involved, Corporate Database, SBC Warburg and IL&FS Private Equity. Mr. Bhatia is Commerce graduate, H.R. College of Commerce & Economics; ACMA (cost and management accounting); Completed the CFA program conducted by CFA Institute, USA.

Cofounder, and Chief Business Officer

Sandeep Gupta, CFA is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of BHIVE Alternatives Inc (Fintech Platform) & BHIVE Fund (Cat II AIF). BHIVE is democratizing investments in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) by harnessing the power of technology to make buying and selling CRE easy and convenient online with the entire process being digital. Sandeep has over two decades of Real Estate transactions and investment experience. He has earlier worked for marquee corporates like Magicbricks, Britannia / BBTCL (Wadia Group), New Chennai Township, GMR, Cinepolis etc., Sandeep is a Charter Holder from the CFA institute USA with a Post Graduation in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad. He is a Certified Investment Performance Measurement professional

Satish Betadpur, CFA   is the Managing Director, Head of Investments – India for State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). Satish provides leadership to the Investment Research, Investment Strategy, Macroeconomics  and other investment related functions across all asset classes. SSGA has about $4 Trillion Assets under Management. Satish is a member of the senior leadership team at SSGA. Satish has over 30 years of investment industry experience working in the United States, United Kingdom and India. Satish worked at TIAA Investment Management for over 15 years in New York and San Francisco in various portfolio management roles covering fixed income, equities and alternatives in all global markets. After his tenure at TIAA, Satish set up and managed research, advisory and investment management firms in US, UK & India. Satish has dual masters in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering specializing in Robotics, AI & Pattern Recognition and a MBA in Finance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Satish also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.