Chaitanya Jagarlapudi – Principal Officer & Founder
Chaitanya is the Founder of Courser Park Advisors LLP, a SEBI registered portfolio management firm. Prior to this, he founded RW Investment Advisors LLP, a SEBI registered investment advisory firm. He is a Chemical Engineer from IIT Madras and holds an MBA from Indian School of Business. He is extremely passionate about public market investing and applied-tech in improving investing outcomes. He has nearly 20 years of experience in capital markets including investing in public and private markets. Prior to starting RW, his last role was as VP managing $ 300 MM at Argonaut Private Equity; a diversified global private equity fund with more than $6 bn AUM. He built Pivotapp – an algorithmic investing tool that combines formulaic investing with momentum and helped in building algorithms to automate investing in mutual funds. His previous positions include working as an Investment Banker at Lazard and was an Equity research Analyst at Irevna (CRISIL).
Gayathri Vittal Rao – Compliance Officer
Gayathri will be handling Compliance at Courser Park Advisors and has been associated with the team at RW Investment Advisors as well. She has graduated in Corporate Secretaryship from MOP Vaishnav College for Women – Madras University, Chennai, did her Masters in Financial Management from Loyola College, Chennai and has completed her MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bangalore. She has a natural flair for learning languages, is a voracious reader and loves solving crosswords.
Ashok Danesh – Manager- Back-Office Operations
Ashok will be responsible for handling back-office functions at Courser Park Advisors. Ashok has been with the advisory firm right since inception and was responsible for operations including trade execution, managing accounts, audit and taxation-related matters related to the firm. He shares an excellent rapport with our clientele and is the go-to man for all their queries and requests. He was previously associated with AHN Consultants, an audit firm where his role involved working on accounting and audit for the firm’s clients and managing compliance to company law requirements. He has more than 6 years of experience in this field and has a BBM – Bachelor of Business Management degree from LBSC, Bangalore. He enjoys traveling and is a passionate music keyboard player