ICICI Pru Smallcap Fund - Direct (G) vs Kotak Balanced Advantage Fund - Direct (G)

Anish Tawakley

PGDM (MBA) from IIM Bangalore and B. Tech (Mechanical Engineering) from IIT Delhi

Prior joining to ICICI AMC he has worked with Barclays India - Equity Research, Credit Suisse India - Equity research - Indian financial services sector,

Harish Bihani

MBA in Finance

Prior to joining ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, he has worked with SBI Mutual Fund, Kotak Instituitional Equities, CIMB Securities, RBS Equities India Pvt. Ltd., Indiabulls Securities Ltd. and Reliance Equities International Pvt. Ltd.

Manish Gunwani

B.Tech (Mechanical), PGDM

Overall 15 years of experience of which 8 years in equity research and one and half year in Fund management.

Rajat Chandak

B.Com., MBA

He is with ICICI Prudential AMC since May 2008. He has earlier worked as Equity Analyst for 1 year.

Sankaran Naren

B.Tech - IIT Madras, PGDM, IIM Calcutta

Prior to joining ICICI Prudential AMC, he has worked with various financial services companies like Refco Sify securities India Pvt. ltd., HDFC Securities Ltd. and Yoha Securities in Various Positions.

Venkatesh Sanjeevi

B.Com., ACA, PGDM (IIM - A)

Over 5 Years Experience: Prior to being appointed as a Fund Manager (Equity), Mr. Sanjeevi was a part of the Equity Research Team of Edelweiss Asset Management Ltd. Further, he has worked with Edelweiss Securities Ltd. in the Equity Research Function and prior to that, in Hindustan Unilever Ltd in the finance function.

Deepak Gupta

B.com., CA.,Cost Accountant(AIMR), CFA

Gupta has 4 years of experience in the mutual fund industry. He worked in the operations division of kotak amc for 2 years. Subsequently in April 2007 he moved to the equity fund management team as a research analyst.

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.