Team

Manish is a distinguished leader with an extensive experience in financial services, securities broking and software development. With a B Tech degree from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Calcutta, Manish provides management as well as technology guidance for running business operations at Option Financial Research Pvt Ltd. Manish is a decisive leader and a result-oriented professional, recognized for taking major initiatives. He has built and managed several high-performing teams.

Manish has previously worked as a CTO with Indiabulls group with responsibility spanning implementing and running Exchange platforms, Internet Trading Platform and setting up of core systems / solutions.

He has extensive experience in leading operations for Technology, Business Development and Application Development with full P& L responsibility. His prior experience includes working at AIG, Polaris and ICICI.

Ronak Moondra, MS in Financial Engineering (USA) holds Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification from GARP USA. Currently candidate for Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Level III) USA. His domain expertise are Portfolio & Risk Management, Quantitative Investment strategies, Statistical Arbitrage and Financial Modelling.

Ronak currently heads Quant Research for Option Financial Research Pvt Ltd. He has over 12 years of experience in Algorithmic Trading in International and Domestic markets across all financial products (Equity, Commodity & Forex). He is consultant and trainer for NSE Academy Ltd & NISM (SEBI). Trains students for various international certifications. Known for his unique way of teaching capital markets.

Abdul Qaadir is a qualified Chartered Wealth Manager (CWM – AAFM), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA – ICFAI)/ Ms (Finance) and a B.Tech (Information Technology).

He has a working experience of nearly 8 years at international as well as domestic equity research houses and asset management firms.He has held positions as an Equity Research Analyst, Associate – Asset Management, Managing Partner – Investments and currently working as Product Head – Asset Management at Option Financial Research Ltd.His domain of expertise is in equity research, portfolio construction and asset management.

Harsha Upadhyaya, MBA in Finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, B.E. Electronics and Telecom, T.S.E.C. Mumbai. Harsha currently serves as Co-founder, Director Doubletch India Pvt. Ltd. She has over 7 years of experience in Strategy Execution Consulting and has clients including large MNCs like ICICI bank, IDFC bank, Standard Chartered bank (Singapore), Citibank (Hong Kong). Her domain expertise includes Financial Modeling, Strategy Execution and Business Fundamentals. Harsha is passionate about making learning fun and sketching.

Anish Sanghvi, MBA in Finance from NMIMS University, Mumbai, India has cleared all 3 levels of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), USA (Charter pending). Anish currently serves as a Sr. Manager (Dealer) – Treasury in one of the largest private sector banks of India. He has over 6 years of experience in banking and consulting. His domain expertise includes Asset Liability Management (ALM), dealing in Money Market instruments, Fixed Income securities and Derivative products. Anish is passionate about teaching and traveling.

Alok Bramhe is currently working at IndusInd Bank’s Global Market Group as a member of Client Risk Solutions team for the last 3 years. He has prior work experience of 3+ years of proprietary trading in Forex markets at Futures First and Option Financial Research Pvt. Ltd. His love and passion for technical analysis led him to pursue the Market Technician Association’s CMT certification (USA). He is CMT charter holder. He believes in trend following strategy and has developed unique style of price action trading strategies with minimum draw down.