ALGO CONVENTION

Govind Jhawar has 21 Years of experience in Capital, Currency & Derivatives Market. He is the Founder of Finideas - A Company having good Wealth Management profile with Solid Technology and Education Edge in Financial Market. He is a well-known icon in the field of Financial Market Training Program being conducted since 2004. He has Trained more than 60000 Traders and Investors till date. He focuses on developing new Financial Market strategies and trading techniques and provides consultancy to members of exchange for Financial Market Trading. He has done many international workshops on Financial Trading and successfully anchored many workshops on Behalf of SEBI, NSE, BSE & MCX across India also successfully anchored many workshops on Options in various cities of India on behalf of some well-known Members.

Quantify Capital is a quantitative research and trading company

Sourabh Sisodiya is a CFA Charter Holder. The CFA Charter is one of the most respected designations in finance and is widely considered to be the gold standard in the field of investment analysis, He is a NSE Certified Capital Market Professional and a SEBI Registered Authorised Person. Other than trading our own proprietary book at Quantify Capital, we train and consult multi-million dollar hedge funds and large prop trading desks on systematic and quant-driven trading and how to leverage the power of algorithms & data science.

Sourabh Sisodiya conducted workshops on quantitative trading at premier institutions like IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIM Bangalore, Jamnalal Bajaj, etc. He is also a Panelist at CNBC Awaaz on shows such as Futures Express, Traders Hotline, Khiladi No.1

Rakesh Pujara has over 25 years of trading and investment experience in the Indian equity markets.

He completed his Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University in 1992 and ICWA from the ICWA Institute in 1996. In the initial part of his career he worked in the Finance departments of different firms in diamond, exports and media industries. In 1999 he joined Shree Naman Securities & Finance as a Finance Manager. In 2002, he established the proprietary trading desk at Naman and grew it to be the major contributor of the firm’s revenue.

Over the years he has developed his own style of trading and analyzing the markets and enjoys studying the behavioral aspect of the markets. He likes to look at long term trends and takes into account a number of factors such as global and local macro, fundamentals and technicals. In 2013, after he became the CEO at Naman, he established the algo trading desk which is very close to his heart. It contributed a major portion of the revenue of the prop trading desk.

Inspired by the results in Algorithm desk he formed his own company Viz. Compounding Wealth Advisors LLP which is a SEBI registered Investment Advisor & is in the Business of advising clients on generating all weather, absolute alpha generating risk adjusted returns. He is a system trader & believes in trend following & other non-correlated multiple trading systems to generate better risk adjusted return.

A Chartered Market Technician (MTA, USA), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Institute, USA), Certified in Quantitative Finance (CQF, London), Certified Financial Technician (CFTe), Investment Banking Analyst (IMS) by qualification, Shubham is among handful professionals with expertise in Quant, Derivatives, Technical & Fundamental research. He has been a programmer himself in multiple programming languages and has led Quant Teams for over 10 years. Shubham has been participating in the Derivatives market since it started in India. With over 20 years of professional experience in markets, he has also been one of the pioneers of ROBO advisory in the Indian Market. He is a known face in business media for his take on markets and trading strategies

Vishal Mehta is a full-time independent trader. He is Chartered Market Technician (CMT) from USA and Co-Chair for Mumbai Chapter for CMT. He started as discretionary trader. Seeing the benefit of systematic trading and growth in automated trading, he started focusing on systematic strategies.

Vishal, has worked with all the leading financial services provider in Indian and globally likes of Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Spider Software and Reliable Software & Financial Technologies. He also achieved a unique feat of training on Technical Analysis major central banks in South Asia likes of Sri-Lanka, Maldives, Nepal and India. He was featured on Moneycontrol and shared his journey as trader. He has done various seminars on extending the education of technical analysis and systematic trading and automation trading.

Yvan Byeajee is a full-time trader and has been trading for a living since 2006. He's the creator of Trading Composure, the leading trading psychology resource on the internet. At the end of the day, trading is a mental game - it’s a game one plays against oneself. Given Yvan's long experience as a certified meditation teacher, he's developed a set of mindfulness-based trading psychology solutions to help traders develop self-knowledge and maturity in how they deal with their emotions, which leads to better decision-making in the market.

Tanmay has a bachelor’s in engineering from Pune University as well as a PGDFM in Finance. Tanmay is an NSE Certified Market Professional and a CFA Candidate. Tanmay cofounded Quants Capital, a firm specializing in the development of automated quantitative trading strategies. Prior to founding Quants Capital Tanmay has headed several prop desks for several years where he played a vital role in the development and implementation of various complex structures and high/medium frequency trading models, which contributed significantly to the prop desk profitability. At QCAlpha Tanmay is responsible for building smart execution algorithms to ensure effective trade execution and risk managment

Ankush Bajaj, is a young and dynamic entrepreneur who is into Capital markets since last 14 years has a vast and indepth knowledge of stock and financial markets. An MBA (FIN), NSE Certified Market Professional (NCMP) Level -1- &; C.P.T.( Certified Professional Trader course from a U.S. based training academy, he is a hardcore Day and Swing trader and has served many Broking Houses in these 14 years. Now along with developing various trading techniques, he has forayed into conducting trainings and classes to teach the wider section of both new and old entrants into the stock markets which is growing manifold in the current scenario. He actively follows the Equity, Currency and Commodity markets. He is the Founder Director of ALFA FinEduCon Pvt Ltd. headquarter at Raipur, Chhattisgarh, the fastest growing state in respect of inviting Make in India programme which in itself is growing beyond leaps and bound in all fields of businesses.

Atul is passionate about the Indian markets and believes in its long-term story. He sees multiple trends playing out in the stock markets across sectors and wants to help investors create long-term wealth by investing in these trends. In 2017, he launched his Portfolio Management Services (PMS)- Mega Trends, a PMS that embodies his philosophy of trend investing.

Career

Atul started his career almost three decades ago as a fundamental analyst with Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services, one of India’s first equity research-driven fund houses. There, he honed his innate skills in identifying high-quality stocks.

He was introduced to quant and technical analysis while doing his Master’s in Banking and Finance from Sydney, Australia. He realized that combining quant and technical with fundamentals could lead to far better-investing outcomes.On his return to India, he took up a position in Institutional Equity Sales with Birla Sun Life Securities. He later set up and led the Private Client Group business.

In 2003, Atul established Marathon Capital, a company focused on trading Index derivatives.In 2008, he joined RARE Enterprises, a family office of Mr. Rakesh Jhunjunwala, as an Analyst and managed an independent book.His time with RARE was a period of rapid learning and growth and set him up for what was to come - his own PMS Fund in 2017.

Atul today uses all his experience and investing acumen to manage Mega Trends, a Portfolio Management Service (PMS), offered through Marathon Trends Advisory.

Nitesh Khandelwal started his career in the Banking sector on the treasury side. After a brief stint in a proprietary trading firm as a lead, he co-founded iRage in Mumbai. He was the overall business lead for iRage till 2016, which is now one of the leading players in the Algorithmic Trading space in India.

In 2016, he shifted his focus to iRage group's another venture, QuantInsti® as its CEO. QuantInsti® has been working towards bringing knowledge and access to scientific & technology oriented trading to the masses & institutions across the globe and has already been helping its users from 190+ countries in achieving the same.

He is an Electrical Engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur with a postgraduate degree in Management from IIM Lucknow, India.

In his total experience of two decades, Ashish has developed expertise in the areas of risk management, capital markets, portfolio management, wealth management and business development. Of these, he has spent over 18 years in Kotak handling both international and domestic businesses.

Ashish has been at the helm of Kotak Securities’ Private Client Group (PCG) and Alternate Channel Business since 2015 creating highly focussed product strategies with a view to garner disproportionate market share. His journey in Kotak started as National Head Risk in 2002, and progressed to heading the Western region for Kotak Securities. Ashish also served as Country Head, Kotak Mahindra International, Dubai from 2005 – 2010 where he was responsible for new business development, finance, technology and P&L.

Ashish has the vision and ability to combine strategic and tactical management expertise that produces bottom-line results and financial strength. He is adept at designing and launching powerful business development plans to propel an organisation to a position of leadership.

Ashish is a rank holding Chartered Accountant

Praveen is the Co-founder and CEO of Symphony Fintech, leading the company to be the leader in providing technologically innovative Stock Trading Platform and solutions. Praveen is directly responsible for strategic partnership, customer acquisition, contract management besides overall operations.

Praveen takes active interest in educating retail traders and active professionals in the area of Algo trading and is present in various forums/panels discussing related topics.

Praveen brings with him more than 12 years of corporate experience and 25 years of entrepreneurial experience with extensive knowledge in Capital Market.

He is also co-founder and Director in Comtel, a group company into providing Low-latency IT infrastructure solutions and services to Stock Broking industry since 25 years.

Praveen is an engineering graduate from BITS Pilani and loves building new age product.

Bruce Vanstone is a Professor at Bangor Business School, Bangor University, Wales, and an Honorary Adjunct Professor at Bond University, Australia. Bruce’s work focuses on using data-driven predictive modelling techniques to solve difficult business problems. His work has been applied in fields such as health, logistics, finance and marketing. He is also particularly interested in finding better ways to apply machine learning techniques and data science to investment and trading. He is also the co-author of the book Designing Stock Market Trading Systems: With and without soft computing

Joel Pannikot is an education business leader. He has spent over 20 years across various sectors of the education-technology industry including commercial education, corporate training, K-12, and continuing professional education. He has led 3 ed-tech startups in this time.

Currently, he is the Asia Pacific Head of the CMT Association and Founder of Peak You. His work uncovers learning synergies between the Industry, Academia and the Non-Profit sector.

Prior to these roles, Joel was CEO of Zaya Learning Labs, an education technology social enterprise that solved affordable access of digital learning. He also restructured the Teach A Class Foundation (TAC), a section 8 non-profit, into India's first crowdfunding platform for school teachers.

From 2010 to 2017, Joel managed the Asia-Pacific education strategy for Bloomberg L.P., the world’s largest decision support platform for governments and corporations. He supported leading educational institutions in benefiting from their relationship with Bloomberg.

Before Bloomberg, Joel was an entrepreneur, training global corporations in performance, sales and communication. He collaborated with business schools for workshops on corporate life skills and financial markets and also conducted pre-placement clinics.

Since 2001, his career has spanned education, pharma business development and international fixed income derivatives trading

Vikram holds a work experience of 10 years in IT and Algo-trading domain. He has worked with Trinity Capital and Optionalysis in the past and developed automated trading systems and various trading strategies for these firms.

Currently , he is the Chief Operating Officer at Tradetron, an algo-strategy marketplace.

An M. Tech in Computer Engineering from COEP, Pune - He is a directional trader and passionate about automation.

Rohit Chugh is a Data Curator & Strategy Developer at Dravyaniti Consulting LLP.

He is a MBA from Bangor University Wales and an EPAT from Quantinsti.

Milan Parikh is a strong headed personality with an extensive knowledge of business. He has an experience of more than three decades in the Stock Market. Milan Parikh, the founder director of the company is known for his positive attitude and exemplary nature on which the success of the company rests. In his current role, Milan is the chief strategist with overall management and control of obligations with the exchanges relating to funds and securities. He started his career as an investor and trader and continued his business as a Sub-broker for more than 10 years under the name of ‘Jinalaya Investments’ and has till date been appointed as panelist on various benches.

Volker Knapp (* 1963, high school 1982, Germany), A Hockey national player for Germany and Hockey coach for the national team of Malaysia, Entrepreneur, Investor, father and husband.

He won several German championship titles. He also won several European and world cup title with the German national team.

In 1982 participating and winning the juniors world cup in Malaysia is one major event in his life. It was not only winning the title but finding his love and passion for Malaysia and the people of Malaysia which started then.

In 1994 (just tuning 31) he became the youngest coach leading a hockey national team. He remained as a coach until 1998 and is considered the most successful foreign coach in Malaysia until today (2022). In 1996 he took the men’s national team to the Atlanta Olympics . In 1998 he took the team to the World Cup in Holland

After his career as hockey player and national coach he pursued his passion for trading in the financial markets.

In the early 2000 he partnered up with his friend Dion Kurczek (whom he calls a genius) to promote Wealth-Lab to an international audience.

During this time he also became the president of the German Market Technician Acssociation for two years (called VTAD in Germany).

In a very short period of time they made WealthLab one of the top three financial market analysis software and were able to sell it to Fidelity Investment at an undisclosed amount in 2004.

Since then he was travelling the world, supporting the promotion and development of WL on a pro bono basis and educating (hedge) fund managers, traders and analysts about the quantitative art of technical analysis.

In 2010 and 2011 he became father of two wonderful boys, which he calls his 2 wunderkinder (www.2wunderkinder.com). According to him they are the love of his live.

Since beginning of 2020 WealthLab became independent again. Consequently he, Dion Kurczek and the old team are working on establishing WealthLab again to the international audience.

Ananya Singhal, co-founder of Rigi, is an alumni from BITS Pilani Goa. He met his co-founder Swapnil Saurav while in college and together they founded their first venture, HalaPlay, a real-money gaming platform for Fantasy Sports. In December 2020, they sold HalaPlay to Nazara Technology and Delta Corp. In June 2021, they founded Rigi to help creators earn and to help them build, manage and grow their community. Rigi recently raised a Series A funding round of $10 million with some of the most iconic players in the Indian startup landscape chipping in as their investors including Sequioa, Accel & Stellaris.Today, Rigi is the biggest creator economy startup in India with 2 lakh + users.

Experienced Product Owner with 13+ years of experience in Stock Markets. Has an history of building best in class Mobile & Online trading applications. He has a great eye for product design and depth in creating products for capital markets. Currently heading trading products & platforms at 5paisa.com

Rajib leads the prop trading business for iRage as its CEO, focussing on strategy development, risk management, and internal processes. iRage manages potentially the broadest option portfolio book in India, being one of India’s leading High-Frequency Trading firms. Prior to iRage, he had experience in quant research (Bloomberg, NY); high-frequency trading (Optiver, Amsterdam); data analytics technology (Oracle); business strategy for an investment firm & derivatives exchanges (PwC).

As an EPAT faculty member, he takes the students through a detailed understanding of the systems & performance benchmarking of various strategies.

Rajib is an active speaker at many renowned national and international platforms including premier B-Schools like IIM-Calcutta, ISB Hyderabad and algorithmic trading conferences in Asia, America & Europe. He also takes Guest Lectures on “Quantitative and Algorithmic Trading” at IIM Ahmedabad as the elective course offered to second-year students of IIM-A's flagship PGP program (equivalent to MBA).

His hobbies include solving puzzles and traveling. He's a national olympiad finalist and has represented India in World Puzzle Championship thrice.

Nirav Mehta is a BANKING & FINANCIAL SERVICE PROFESSIONAL

Over 14 years of cross-functional experience with hands-on experience in Foreign Currency Derivatives products, Capital Markets, Exchange traded derivatives, risk management, Algorithm Trading Platform.