Abhijit Naik , CFA® (Director, Owner & Founder)

P.G.D.M. (M.B.A.): IIM Ahmedabad, India.
B.TECH.: IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India.
P.G. DIPLOMA : King’s College, London, UK.

Abhijit brings well over a decade of experience in asset management and close to four years of experience in engineering consulting. He has substantial portfolio management experience at Nomura where he managed an AUM of over $315 million in quantitative strategies and $35 million (gross AUM $245 million) in an equity volatility strategy. Prior to that, he also managed a $140 million equity portfolio at Barclays employing semi-discretionary quantitative strategies. He has also work at American Express in credit and fraud risk management, with CCO responsibilities for Netherlands.

He is a director and investment committee member at Sun Hill Investment Management (Malta) Ltd., a fully regulated asset management company specialising in innovative real estate products. He also acts as an advisor to early stage ventures such as FundFina and Finvisage. Abhijit is a thought leader in non-financial value drivers and machine learning, having contributed articles in Forbes, Harvard Working Knowledge, and Harvard Business Review, using data from sports teams and employing cutting edge machine learning techniques.

Mr. Venkatesan Sukumar Iyer

Mr. Iyer is a Chartered Accountant and the CEO of Global 9 Resources Pte. Ltd. With over 43 years of experience in Accounting, Auditing, International Human Resource, Corporate Taxation, and HR Administration; his expertise spans across administration, planning, and compliance of district offices in Asia-Pacific, and managing businesses in over 15 countries in the region.

Having completed his graduation and Chartered Accountancy in India, he is a fellow member at Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore, ACCA Institute in UK, and FCPA in Australia.

A thorough-bred professional, he started his career in 1976 as an Audit Manager in F.A Ferguson & Co, Chartered Accountants and later grew into the role of Audit Senior in Touche Ross, Singapore.