Lashit Sanghvi
Founder partner of Alchemy, possesses over 15 years of equity market experience. Key strengths-trading and ability to call market direction. Was featured in "Wizards of Dalal Street - Gen Next" a series on the most successful investors in Indian Stock Market by CNBC India.

Ashwin Kedia
Co-founder partner of Alchemy, possesses over 15 years of equity market experience. Key strengths- stock picking and developing a network of corporate relationships. Was featured in "Wizards of Dalal Street - Gen Next" a series on the most successful investors in Indian Stock Market by CNBC India.

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
Founder investor of Alchemy, is one of the most successful proprietary value investor and trader in the Indian equity markets. Was featured in "Wizards of Dalal Street" a series on the most successful investors in Indian Stock Market by CNBC India.

Hiren Ved
Director and Chief Investment Officer at Alchemy Capital Management and has over 15 years of equity market experience in research and investment management. Key strengths - stock picking.

Hiren Ved - Chief Investment Officer
Experience
Alchemy Capital Management Pvt. Ltd.: January 1999- till date
Set up the asset management business of the group and currently heads the fund management function of the firm as a CIO with c. $100 mn AUM. Also co-managed the private equity investments of the group from 1999 to 2001.

Prime Securities Ltd.: June 1994-December 1998
Joined Prime Securities Ltd a leading investment bank as part of the fund management team responsible for investing the proprietary funds of the firm. The firm’s equity asset book size grew from USD 6 million to USD 40 million during that period. Was involved in actively investing and managing the firm’s asset book in both listed ands private equity investments. Worked with the investment banking team of the firm for deal origination in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions.

K R Choksey & Co.: February 1991 - May 1994
Started the career with K R Choksey & Co., a large securities firm as part of the research team. Was designated as Head of Research in 1993. Created a solid foundation in bottom up research with extensive coverage of companies across sectors through management/company meetings.

Education Qualification
• Post Graduate in Management Accounting from ICWAI
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting - Bombay University

Chandraprakash Padiyar, CFA
Vice President
Chandraprakash has over 7 years of work experience in Mutual funds. He began his stint as a Equity research analyst with UTI mutual funds. He holds an MBA in finance from Symbiosis, and has received the CFA charter in 2005.

Sachin Shah,
Portfolio Manager
Sachin has over 9 years of experience in protfolio management and research. He started his carrer as a research analyst at Unit Trust of India before moving to SG Asia Securities and HDFC Bank, where he was made Manager of Equites and Private Banking. Sachin joined Alchemy Capital Management in 2004 and serves as Director and Portfolio Manager for Alchemy Investment Management.

Nimis Sheth,
Portfolio Manager
Nimis has over 19 years of experience in the Indian listed equities market. His most recent assignment(2006-2009) was as an Analyst and regional portfolio manager with Artha Capital Management, a USA based $1bn long-short fund, at their India office. He has worked as an euqity research analyst with Corporate Database & Anvil Stock Broking from 1990-2000 and Phoenix Stockbrokers 2000-2006. Nimis has an M.B.A. & M.E. from Boston University USA (1987) & a B.E. from BITS Pilani(1985).

Mohit Batra
Chief Executive Officer
MBA,CFA and PhD in financial services. He has over 16 years of experience in financial services, having served as Head of financial projects for TATA Interactive Systems, Country Manager for Euromoney, Co-Founder & Promoter of www.moneycontrol.com, CEO of E-18(CNBC India), COO of United Health Care Group(Fortune 40 listed and the biggest health insurance firm in the world), Country Head - Wealth - ABN AMRO bank and Director of Wealth - Motilal Oswal Securities.

Pooja Keswani
Chief Operating Officer
B.COM, CA with over 20 years of experience spanning across sectors like FMCG, BPO & Financial Services. She’s worked for 10 yrs with Procter & Gamble and 5 yrs with Willis Insurance captive BPO. She’s held positions of National Sales Finance Manager, Sr. Financial Analyst, Head of Operations & Chief Financial Officer. In 1997 she joined Motilal Oswal and made her move into Financial Services. She joined Alchemy in Feb 2009.

Meera D'Souza
Head – International Operations
Over 17 years exposure to multi-facets of Accounting, Operations and Compliance, including a 13-year stint at UTI in Fund Accounting and Administration. Has been associated in managing back office operations with a BPO company – specialized in servicing hedge funds.