Mr Akshay Gupta has more than 25 years of experience in Banking, Asset Management, Investment Banking and Capital Markets.
Prior to Prime, he was working with Indiabulls as the Group Executive Head & CEO-Asset Management and other fee income businesses. He was associated with Peerless Asset Management as MD & CEO for more than 6 yrs, wherein he led the initiative to setup a new AMC and made it one of the fastest growing new AMCs in India.
He worked with ICICI Prudential Asset Management Company from 2002- 2007 as a Business Head and was part of the Senior Management team that made it the largest and most successful AMC at that time. Prior to joining the AMC industry, Mr. Akshay Gupta was a Banker having worked in ABN AMRO Bank and HSBC working in capital markets and assets. He has also written & published sound articles on Asset Management & Wealth Management.
Mr N Jayakumar joined Prime Securities in 1993. He holds a B.Tech Mechanical Engineering, IIT Delhi (1978-83) and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad (1983-85). Prior to Prime, he was head of the Investment Banking Group at Citibank, having previously spent several years in Money Markets and Securities Trading. He is a recognized Speaker on various Business TV channels and fora for Equity research, Wealth Management, Private Equity, Wealth Restructuring, Indian Economy and Indian Stock Markets.
Ms Namrata Kaul has over 30 years of experience in banking and finance, spanning across corporate and investment banking, global markets and treasury functions. She has served as the Managing Director, Corporate and Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank AG, responsible for business management and client coverage. Prior to that she was Head of Asia Business for Deutsche Bank based out of London, engaged in a multi country interface. She has been involved in developing the strategy roadmap for Deutsche Bank India as part of the India Board and was instrumental in defining and executing the Asia Focus strategy for the EMEA business. She had earlier worked with ANZ Grindlays Bank in various leadership roles across Treasury, Corporate Banking, Debt Capital Market and Corporate Finance.
Namrata is a Member of the Supervisory Board of CARE International, Switzerland and serves as an Independent Director on the Board of Vivriti Capital and Bhopal Smart City Corporation.
Namrata is a postgraduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and has completed a Chevening scholarship on Leadership from London School of Economics.
Mr. Ashok Kacker is former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax. He took voluntary retirement in 2007, after working for more than three decades with Income Tax Department, Government of India (GoI). During his services with GOI he held important senior position both in executive capacities as well as in policy formulation role including 6 year stint as Executive Director with Securities and Exchange Board of India.
He is currently, Founder & Managing Partner of A. K. Advisors and Consultants, providing financial consultancy services. He is on board of directors of several companies, which includes Max India Limited, Umrao Institute of Medical Science and Research Trust, Samco Asset Management Company Ltd. In past he has served on Board of Indiabulls Asset Management Co Ltd, Indiabulls Industrial Infrastructure Ltd, Mahindra Satyam amongst others.
He holds a Master’s degree in Physics from the University of Allahabad where he topped his class in 1972.