Building Resilient Strategies In Volatile Markets

Q1. Could you start by giving us a brief overview of your professional background, particularly focusing on your expertise in the industry?

I’m a Computer Science graduate from IIT Kanpur whose journey into the investment management industry has been unconventional and driven by curiosity, experimentation, and adaptability.

My first exposure to the financial industry came through an internship at Goldman Sachs (Investment Management Division) in Bangalore. That experience sparked my interest in this space. Soon after, I joined WorldQuant through campus placements—a formative experience where I discovered that my background in mathematics and CS gave me a unique edge in quantitative investing. Over four years at WorldQuant, I worked across multiple asset classes and strategies and helped build one of the firm’s top-performing products at the time.

After that, I ventured into entrepreneurship—raising capital and developing a high-performance strategy. However, regulatory constraints around leverage (especially in the Indian AIF framework) led me to explore setting up the product offshore via an FPI structure. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted those plans.

I later joined Tower Research Capital, a leading high-frequency trading firm, where I contributed to the development of their hedge fund initiative—drawing upon my prior experience in metrics-driven strategy design…