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).
Mohit Bajaj – Partner
Mohit, a Chartered Accountant with 17 years of experience, has been actively involved in the Financial Services domain in diverse areas like investments, financial planning, portfolio management, stock broking, mutual funds etc. He has been a ranker in CA course (15th rank in Final, 3rd in PCC) & has actively trained over 300 student interns from various colleges under him
He handles client relationships aside from lending research support to the team. He has been instrumental in assisting a lot of clients in improving their financial well-being, achieving life’s goals and taking them through the path of wealth creation & wealth preservation. He has also been an advocate for financial independence and has actively conducted various sessions across the country on the importance of Savings, Insurances & Investments. He is an avid reader & loves to communicate.
Bismith Nayak – Senior Analyst
Bismith is the Head of Research at Courser Park Advisors. At the firm, his role is to understand companies without any bias for sectors and sizes. He is responsible for understanding portfolio companies deeply through both primary and secondary research. Previously he was an Associate with Tech Mahindra, where he had researched upon private equity, venture capital and M&A deals across industries and geographies. He has a Master of Commerce from Ness Wadia College of Commerce and a university rank holder in bachelors and masters as well as CS.
He enjoys discussions on technology, behavior, literature and history and is an avid Counter Strike fan.
Sarang Sanil – Analyst
Sarang is focused on IT and Technology sector primarily, where he analyses and diligently keeps track on the companies in his radar. In addition to that, he also keeps track of key names in logistics and consumer sectors. He also enjoys developing tools that simplify the workflow at the firm and is involved with operations and client outreach as well. Having completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) degree from Christ University, he is also an associate member of The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) through which he developed his skillset in the field of Finance and Investment. He has cleared CFA Level-II as well.
He is a national-level table tennis player and loves to spend a few hours every week on his training. He is also a cinephile and enjoys films across genres and languages.
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
Aleena Robin – Operations Associate
Aleena is the newest member to our team who handles the trade cycle at the firm. She communicates with different stakeholders like the broker, custodian etc. on a regular basis to ensure smooth functioning of the daily operations in the firm. She also helps with the onboarding of clients.
Previously, she was an Assistant Manager at HDFC Bank where she solved resolved high-level concerns of the customers, assisted in training new hires, sold a range of bank products etc. She enjoys reading.