AXIS Bluechip Fund - Direct (G) vs Kotak Bluechip Fund - Direct (G)

Chandresh Nigam

B.Tech from IIT Delhi, PGDM from IIM Calcutta

Mr. Chandresh Nigam has over 20 years of experience in the equity markets. Head - investments, Axis Asset Management co. ltd.(from april 01, 2010 till date). Head - Equity, Axis Asset Managment co ltd (from july 2009 till march 2010). Advisor, TCG Advisory Services P ltd.(From january 2005 till June 2009). Fund manager , Prudential ICICI Asset Management Company ltd.(From july 2003 till january 2005). Fund manager , Zurich Asset Managment Company p lstd (From April 1993 till june 2003).

Jinesh Gopani

M.M.S in Finance from Mumbai University

He has total experience of 13 years in the capital markets of which 4 years are in equity fund management. Previous experience includes Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund and Voyager Capital.

Pankaj Murarka

B.Com,ACA

He has Over 16 Years of experience in equity markets. Axis AMC as Fund Manager - Equity from November 2009 to till date. Before Joining to Axis he has worked in Amc like UTI Amc ,DSP Merrill Lynch Capital ,Motilal Oswal and Rare Enterprises.

Harish Krishnan

CFA, PGDBM (IIM Kozhikode), B.Tech (Electronics & Communications)

Mr. Harish Krishnan has 14 years of experience spread over Equity Research and Fund Management. Prior to joining Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund, he was based out of Singapore and Dubai, managing Kotak's offshore funds. He has also worked at Infosys Technologies Ltd in his earlier stint. He is a Bachelor of Technology (Electronics & Communications) from Government Engineering College, Trichur, a post Graduate in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode and a Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute.

Harsha Upadhyaya

(B.E,Mechancial from Rec, suratkal. PGDM form IIM from Lucknow. CFA institute, USA.

Harsha began his career with Essar steel as an engineer and moved on to pursue higher studies. After completion of PGDM, he joined uti in 1996 and worked as an equity analyst tracking various sectors for over three years. Before his second stint with UTI Mutual Fund starting april 2006, harsha gained considerable experience on indian equity markets working as research analyst in local and foreign broking houses; he has also gained valuable experience in the areas of business analysis and finance working at Reliance Industries and Reliance energy.

Pradeep Kumar

Master of Management Studies ( Finance), Mumbai University.

He has over many year experience in Equity markets in various capacities including research analyst and fund manager.Prior to that he was in /Way2Wealth Securities Ltd. as senior analyst from May 2002 to Dec2002. He was also with first global finance ltd. as a research analyst from June 2002 to may 2002.