Aditya Narain

Aditya Narain is Head of Research, Institutional Equities at Edelweiss. In this role he manages a team of over 50 research analysts that provide deep, differentiated fundamental research covering over 265 stocks across sectors and spanning over 80% of the Indian market cap.

He has over 23 years of experience in the Indian Equity markets, and has over this period worked on the Banking and Financial Sector, and Market Strategy . His previous roles were at Citi for 17 years as Head of Research, Strategist and Banking & Finance Analyst, prior to which he was with UBS as the Banking Analyst.  He has also worked with Bank of America and ICICI.

Aditya is an MBA from FMS Delhi, a  graduate in Economics from SRCC, Delhi University and is also a CFA charter holder. 

Shiv Diwan

Shiv Diwan is Co-Head, Institutional Equities at Edelweiss. In his current role, apart from managing some of the firm’s biggest institutional clients, Shiv leads a sales team that manages institutional client relationships across the globe, a trading team with strong capabilities in cash and derivatives trading, ably supported by a research team that brings in-depth and unmatched research to the table. 

Shiv and his team have been instrumental in successfully executing a large number of IPOs and QIPs for some of India’s top business houses, corporates, new and next generation entrepreneurs, marquee institutions, Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), and banks to mobilize capital from investors overseas across the world, making Edelweiss among the top 3 intermediaries in terms of number of deals executed.

Shiv also leads the Edelweiss Marquee India Conference and the Edelweiss International Conference in USA, UK and Asia that brings together some leading names across the industry and institutional investor community. He is a member of the Senior Leadership Committee of the Edelweiss group.

Gautam Shroff

Gautam Shroff is Co-Head, Institutional Equities at Edelweiss. In his current role, Gautam handles all aspects of the business including sales and trading. In his previous role as Head – Trading, Edelweiss Institutional Equities, he managed Cash Equities, Alternative Investments and Derivative Desk & Forex. He was instrumental in enhancing the depth and breadth with large institutional clients across the board. He is credited with originating and onboarding marquee clients with Edelweiss and is a member of the Senior Leadership Committee of the Edelweiss group.

Gautam has over 14 years of experience in Financial Services with core expertise in Equities, Capital Markets, Banking, Asset Management and Equity Trading. Before joining Edelweiss, he was associated with Société Générale as the Deputy Head of Trading.

Gautam has a degree in the General Management Programme, Strategy, Finance and Innovation from Harvard Business School and holds an MBA with Finance specialization from MET Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Abneesh Roy

Abneesh Roy has more than 15 years of experience in the Consumer sector covering Equity research, Strategy and Business Intelligence. He actively covers more than 33 companies across the Consumer, Retail and Media sectors. Abneesh has an MBA from IIM, Indore) and a B.E – Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University. 

Shiv Sehgal

Shiv Sehgal is President and Deputy CEO, and Co-Head of the Institutional Clients Group, Edelweiss Global Investment Advisors. In this role, Shiv provides leadership to one of India’s largest equity franchises and is responsible for the Capital Market businesses which includes Institutional Equities (covering sales, research and trading) and Asset Services.

Shiv has worked in the investment management and financial services industry for close to two decades, the majority of which has been in emerging market funds in the pan-Asia markets. Shiv has extensive experience of working in long-short emerging market hedge funds in Sydney and Singapore. 

He is a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute, USA and holds a Masters in Banking and Finance from Griffith University, Brisbane.