Alroy Lobo CEO – Listed Strategies

Alroy Lobo is a Kotak veteran. He has a total work experience of over 28 years in Indian equity markets.

He joined the Kotak Group as an equity research analyst in September 1993 when Kotak Securities was just building its equity research franchise. Alroy covered IT services, pharmaceuticals and the cement sectors and was ranked highly by polls conducted by Institutional Investors and Asia Money. Alroy rose to become the Head of Equity Research, Equity Strategist and the Head of Institutional Equities at Kotak Securities, at a time when Goldman Sachs was a joint venture partner. Alroy spent about 14 years in the institutional equities business at Kotak Securities, advising global institutional investors. He spearheaded formulation of a proprietary framework called ‘WHIZDOM’ at Kotak Institutional Equities, which is a powerful framework for evaluating stocks. Kotak Institutional Equities is ranked among the best equity research houses in India for several years by institutional investors.

Alroy’s next assignment was at Kotak Asset Management, where he played the role of Chief Strategist and Global Head of Equities Asset Management for over 8 years. He built a solid buy-side research team at Kotak AMC. He institutionalized fund management by creating robust investment systems and processes to aid fund management performance. These included a proprietary portfolio analytics tool called ‘K-PAX’, mid-cap and large cap model portfolios, knowledge management systems, broker voting systems and performance evaluation systems. Alroy, along with his buy-side research team, actively advised Kotak’s equity fund management team across Kotak Group entities, on stocks, sectors, portfolio construction and portfolio optimization. Alroy has spent a great deal of time interacting with institutional investors and family offices across the world to build and grow Kotak’s International Asset Management business.

Alroy joined Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Ltd. in August 2015 as CEO - Listed Strategies to continue his passion in Indian equities. He is the Founding Member of the India Whizdom Fund, where he leverages his wealth of public equity experience and expertise, gathered over more two and a half decades.

Alroy is an accomplished Chartered Financial Analyst from CFA Institute as well as ICFAI. He is a first ranker in Masters in Management Studies (Finance) from Sydenham Institute of Management, Mumbai (1988). He is a gold medalist in Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Srinagar (1985). He is also a gold medalist Chartered Financial Analyst from ICFAI (1995).

Bhavin Shah Director

Bhavin Shah is the Co-founder of Kotak India Whizdom Fund (IWF) and Director - Listed Strategies at Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Ltd.

He brings over 21 years of total work experience in equity investments across private equity, investment banking\M&A and public market investments.

Bhavin has been with the Kotak Group since 2006 across several roles. Bhavin joined Kotak in the Investment Bank where he led private equity fund raising efforts for corporates across multiple sectors. In 2008, he moved to Kotak Private Equity where he led several private equity transactions (listed and unlisted) and represented the fund on company boards.

In 2015, he co-founded the India Whizdom Fund and the listed strategies platform at Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Ltd. He has been instrumental in building the fund’s philosophy of private equity style investment approach in public markets to deliver superior risk adjusted returns. The Fund leverages his private equity experience and expertise to make long term investments in public equities.

Prior to joining Kotak, he worked with a Hong Kong based private equity fund focused on outsourced tech enabled services. Subsequently he set up the India business for a global KPO company and built it to 2,000+ team members.

Bhavin has completed his Masters’ in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Sydenham College, Mumbai.

Ameya Karambelkar Associate Vice President

Ameya joined Kotak Listed Strategies in September 2021.

Prior to joining Kotak Listed Strategies, Ameya was part of the Research division of IIFL Institutional Equities for 4 years, where he tracked diverse sectors including IT services, Internet and Insurance, and was responsible for advising institutional investors on investments in listed Indian equities.

Ameya has also interned with Standard Chartered Bank’s Debt Capital Markets desk and KPMG’s deal advisory team. His pre-MBA work experience includes a stint with the passenger vehicle R&D division of Tata Motors.

Ameya holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from BITS Pilani Goa Campus.

Bhavesh Jain Associate Vice President

Bhavesh joined Kotak Alternate Asset Managers in November 2021 as Associate Vice President - Listed Strategies. He has a total work experience of over 10 years in Indian equity markets.

Prior to joining Kotak, he worked with ITI Mutual Fund as a fund manager where he was responsible for tracking pharmaceuticals, chemicals and agri sectors. Bhavesh has earlier also worked as an investment analyst with Envision Capital and Varanium Capital and as a research analyst with CRISIL.

Bhavesh has completed his Executive Masters’ in Business Administration from IBS, Hyderabad and Bachelor of Engineering (Computers) from D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai.