RISHI KOHLI

Co-Founder

Rishi has over 25 years of experience in the Indian financial markets heading both sell-side and buy-side businesses in the public equity markets space. He has a lot of market firsts to his credit with being the pioneer in options strategies and managed futures research for India in his institutional broking days from 2001-2006 to starting and running India’s first quantitative hedge fund in 2007 & Asia’s first systematic managed futures fund in 2011 at ProAlpha, as part of US-based Monsoon Capital where he has had many global institutional investors offshore and some of the biggest Indian family offices onshore as investors and clients. Rishi has run various hedge fund strategies across India and Asia with a focus on quantitative and systematic strategies and has won many global awards in the past for running the Best New Asian Fund and Best Managed Futures Fund in Asia besides one of the quant Funds being managed by him being ranked in the Top 10 funds globally in its category in 2020 due to capturing strong market returns in the sharp Covid related market crash.

Rishi is currently the CIO of JioBlackRock Mutual Fund. His prior stint was at InCred Capital where he was the Managing Partner & CIO of the Hedge Fund Strategies business. Before that, he was with Avendus as the Managing Director & CIO of Quant Strategies within their hedge fund unit.

Rishi has been a speaker at many global quant and hedge fund conferences like Quant Invest in Paris, Hedge Funds Asia in Hong Kong, MFA Conference in Miami, VCCircle’s PE/VC Summit in Mumbai and AIWMI’s Alternatives Summit in Mumbai.

Rishi’s comments and interviews are regularly featured on various television media like CNBC and ET Now as well as various leading financial newspapers and magazines like Economic Times, Business Line, Outlook Money and Business India. He is one of the most prominent faces on the institutional buy side industry for quant-based and systematic investing in India.

He holds an MBA from IIM Lucknow and Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kanpur.

Pankaj Mani

Co-Founder

Pankaj Mani is a globally known quant & risk researcher, advisor and author.
He is the President of the CQF Delhi (India) Society, the world’s largest and reputed quantitative finance community founded by Dr. Paul Wilmott(Oxford University), and serves on the Committee of the globally recognised risk management body GARP India (Delhi) Chapter.

He is the Managing Director of RealWorldRisk, having a team of some of the globally renowned experts, where he advises leading institutions on quant-driven quantamental research, portfolio and risk modeling, data science, AI/ML, behavioural science modelling etc. and training as well.

He is a featured research author on seminal, practical foundational works for Wilmott (Wiley), the world’s leading quantitative finance and risk publication, and the author of Scientific Investing in the Real-World: Black Swan & Tail Risk.

He has also been featured by various news media platforms including The Economic Times.

His work spans quantitative finance, portfolio management, risk, AI/ML, performance analysis, non-linearity, causality, randomness, convexity, factor investing, ESG, behavioural finance, and Black Swan and tail-risk management. His investment approaches emphasize robust, resilient portfolios capable of navigating extreme market conditions.

Pankaj has collaborated,interacted in in-depth discussions with globally renowned experts, including Nobel laureates, leading academics, govt.policymakers,best selling authors, trading,risk and quant and investment veterans.

He is an invited speaker and trainer at reputed national and international forums attended by participants from institutions such as Goldman Sachs, RBI, SBI, ICICI, Columbia University, NYU, the IITs, the IIMs, ISI, and CFA communities.

Beyond finance, his research interests include philosophy, spirituality, neuroscience, consciousness, nature, and social dynamics where has published some papers too.

Pawan Mehar

Director

Strategic Leader in Financial Markets
Brings nearly two decades of experience across institutional advisory, treasury solutions, investment platforms, and client-focused wealth creation.

Institutional Markets & Treasury Specialist
Built a strong foundation at ICICI Prudential AMC and Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC, advising corporate treasuries, banks, institutions, and FIIs on investments and strategic business growth.

Pioneer of Research-Driven Client Platforms
At Fundvaliz LLP, led the development of a research-backed platform that empowered investors with better tools, deeper insights, and more informed financial decision-making.

Entrepreneurial Builder of Investment Solutions
Expanded offerings for corporates, senior executives, promoters, and NRIs across mutual funds and a broad spectrum of financial instruments.

Champion of Structured Investment Thinking
At Unicorn Investment Managers LLP, driving differentiated investment approaches through market experience, disciplined execution, and research-led portfolio strategies.

Broad-Based Market Solution Expertise
Led initiatives across mutual funds, corporate bonds, RBI bonds, equity shares, ETFs, and equity sub-broking—bridging traditional advisory with evolving investment frameworks.