Swapnil was
a portfolio manager for India strategy at Engineers Gate (a
US-headquartered Global Quant Hedge Fund) during October 2015 and May
2019.
He later
acquired the India business of Engineers Gate through a management
buy-out and formed ASQI Advisors to create an asset management business
focused on absolute returns in Asian markets.
He is a
graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2002) and
post-graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
(2004).
Swapnil has
an experience of over 15 years, spread across quantitative strategies,
alternate assets, fund-raising and business building.
In his
earlier work during 2010-15, he set up and headed the proprietary quant
trading group at a large Indian brokerage. He also set up the group’s
structured products desk and alternate asset management business,
managing AUM of ~Rs. 750 Cr (~$100mm).
In 2006, he
co-founded PARK Financial Advisors, an investment advisory boutique,
which was acquired by the large Indian brokerage in 2009.
Earlier,
Swapnil worked with The Boston Consulting Group advising clients across
Engineering, Technology and Banking sectors.
Swapnil has
been recognized as one of ‘40 under 40’ professionals in Alternate
Investment space in India.
He has also
authored a book, titled ‘Anatomy of Froth – Demystifying the Global
Financial Crisis’ (2010) besides several papers and articles in the
media.
Sonia Kapoor
Human Resources and Administration
Sonia heads
human resources and administration for ASQI.
Sonia
worked at Engineers Gate prior to joining ASQI.
Earlier,
Sonia worked at several financial services firms in India in
administration and resource management.
Kousthub Raja
Kousthub is
a graduate from National Institute of Technology, Calicut Prior to
joining ASQI, Kousthub worked for Goldman Sachs as an Analyst in
Investing & Lending technology.
At Goldman
Sachs, he built various systems such as an automated trade document
signing system, automatic pricing and settlements, reconciliation system
for loans, and an automated trade upload system.
Kousthub is
an expert in workflow automation, software process optimization and data
mining.
Palak Nanjani
Palak is a
Graduate from Ket’s V.G. Vaze College and is a Chartered Financial
Analyst.
Palak has
earlier worked with A.K. Wealth Management Private Limited as Vice
President – Products for Fixed Income Portfolio Management. She was
involved in designing the strategy for debt capital markets.
Earlier,
she worked with Scient Capital Private Limited as Vice President –
Products focussing on PMS Portfolio Management and credit
analysis.
Shivaputra MC
Shivaputra
is a Graduate in Advanced Financial Accounting & Management from
Bangalore University & MBA in Finance & Marketing from Alliance
Business School, Bangalore.
Earlier
Shivaputra has worked with ICICI Securities Ltd, Principal Mutual Fund,
Sundaram Mutual Fund, Karvy Capital & Scient Capital.
Shivaputra
has over 16 years’ experience in Financial Services & Capital
Markets..
Shitij Singh
Shitij is a
graduate from IIT Kanpur, majoring in Economics.
Prior to
joining ASQI, Shitij worked at EXL Services as a Consultant to analyze
and present big data to the clients.
Shitij
plays a pivotal role at ASQI, bridging the gap between the tech
and business teams.
Pranav K
Pranav is a
graduate from Vellore Institute of Technology.
Earlier
Pranav worked as a Blockchain Engineer with Trames for Designing &
Developing & Leading DLT solutions.
Pranav also
has multiple projects to his credit like International Remittance which
involves platform transact International Remittances in a tamperproof
way & Letter of Credit where problems like reconciliation,
transparency are solved in a decentralized way.
Pranav is
certified in Blockchain Architecture, Use case and Applications of
core blockchain concepts and top frameworks.
Vaibhav Singh
Vaibhav is
a Graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS –
Pilani.
Prior to
joining ASQI, Vaibhav worked with Nucleus Software as Software Engineer
and has designed a system for approval & rejection of loans without
pre‑existing data.
Vaibhav has
worked on various projects for Google like configuring the smart
speaker Google Home to be integrated with the assistant’s API and
provide speech to text capability to the project.
Pradeep A
Pradeep is
a graduate from East West College of Management.
Prior to
joining ASQI, Pradeep was working for Augplat Technologies as a
Developer for deploying & testing products for clients.
Pradeep is
an expert in developing various social media product applications
from the whiteboard to production.