Our investment team has more than a decade of experience investing in the Indian markets.
Shreyas Attavar, CFA
Fund Manager
Shreyas Attavar has a documented investment track record and 13 years of investment experience in India. He was a Partner and Lead Indian Equities Analyst at Veritas Asset Management (subsidiary of AMG Funds USA) in London for 7 years, where he helped manage investments of more than $300 million in the Indian stock market and $1 billion in the broader Asia-Pacific region. He was also associated with Seven Canyons Advisors in the US. Prior to life an an institutional investor, Shreyas worked at Airbus in the UK and Kotak Securities in Bangalore.
He holds an MPhil in Technology Policy from Cambridge University (Cambridge-MIT Institute) and a BEng in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Bath in the UK. At university, he won the Royal Aeronautical Society's Centennial Scholarship and a bursary from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.
Certifications: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), as designated by the CFA Institute USA.
Memberships: Indian Association of Investment Professionals (IAIP) / CFA Society of India
Douglas Cairns
Douglas has more than 25 years of experience in the Asian markets. He was a Director of Asian Business Development at Veritas Asset Management and Investment Specialist at Columbia Threadneedle in London. In the late 1990s, he helped establish a joint venture for Schroders in Thailand, with CIO responsibility and latterly as CEO.
He holds an MA in Geography from the University of Edinburgh and the IMC. He is currently based in the UK.
Srinivasan Rangan
Associate Professor, Finance & Accounting
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
Prof. Rangan's research interests are in the areas of market efficiency, financial analysis and valuation, initial public offerings, and earnings management. He has refereed publications in the Journal of Financial Economics, Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Review of Accounting Studies, and Financial Management. His work on earnings management and initial public offerings has been cited in The Wall Street Journal.
He holds a PhD (Accounting) from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA; BCom from the University of Madras, India and is a Chartered Accountant (ACA).