Fund Managers
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Sunil Singhania
Sunil Singhania, CFA, is the Founder of Abakkus Asset Management, LLP, an India-focused Asset Management Company established in 2018. Prior to this, in his role as Global Head – Equities at Reliance Capital Ltd., he oversaw equity assets and provided strategic inputs across Reliance Capital Group of companies including asset management, insurance, AIF and offshore assets. And as CIO – Equities, Singhania led Reliance Mutual Fund (now Nippon India Mutual Fund) equity schemes. Reliance Growth Fund (now Nippon India Growth Fund) grew over 100 times in less than 22 years under Singhania’s leadership. Furthermore, he led Reliance Asset Management (now Nippon Life India Asset Management)Ltd.’s international efforts and was instrumental in launching India funds in Japan, South Korea, and the UK, besides managing mandates from institutional investors based in the US, Singapore, and other countries. He is currently appointed on the IFRS Capital Market Advisory Committee. (2020-2023). He was the Promoter of The Association of NSE Members of India; a body of stock brokers. He served on the Global board of CFA Institute, USA (2013-2019) and as Chairman of the Investment Committee (2017-2019) of the CFA Institute, USA. He also sat on CFA Institute’s Standards of Practice Council for six years, and was the Founder of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (now CFA Society India) and served as its President for eight years. He is a CA rankholder and a CFA charterholder and graduated in commerce from the Mumbai University.
Surjitt Singh Arora
Surjitt Singh Arora is Portfolio Manager – Portfolio Management Services at PGIM India Asset Management Private Limited. He is the Portfolio Manager for PGIM India Phoenix Portfolio and PGIM India Core Equity Portfolio. Surjitt holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Studies from Sydenham College, Mumbai and a Master’s degree in Management Studies from Sydenham Institute of Management and Research (SIMSREE), Mumbai. Surjitt Singh Arora has more than 16 years of rich work experience in the Equity Markets including over 6 years in the asset management industry. In his last stint, Surjitt was Head - PMS and Principal Officer with Tata Asset Management. Prior to that he was with Tata Mutual Fund as Equity Research Analyst.
Tej Shah
Prior to joining Marcellus, Tej worked at Mayfield, a Silicon Valley headquartered venture capital fund which manages $3Bn globally and $220Mn in India. Tej spent 2 years as a part of Mayfield India’s investment team covering multiple sectors and being at the centre of India’s evolving venture ecosystem. Prior to Mayfield, Tej was a part of the equity and capital markets team of Ambit Capital where he worked on executing IPOs, QIPs and buybacks.
Tridib Pathak
Tridib Pathak has over 30 years’ experience in managing Indian listed equity assets for domestic and international investors. He joined Avendus Capital in 2019 from Enam AMC, where he was a senior portfolio manager. His previous roles included CIO of Lotus Asset Management (a JV with Temasek’s Fullerton Fund Management) and CIO of DBS Cholamandalam, a JV with DBS of Singapore. He is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a degree in Commerce from Bombay University.
