PPFAS – Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services
Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services Limited was set up in 1992 with the aim of providing advisory and transaction services on the Bombay Stock Exchange. This was extended to the National Stock Exchange a couple of years later. In 1996, it was among the first set of firms which secured licenses to provide Portfolio Management Services (PMS - Registration No. INP000000241). While it currently manages a Scheme called 'Cognito', it has ceased to accept new clients for the past decade or so. It is also the Sponsor of PPFAS Mutual Fund.
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Cognito
Neil Parag Parikh
BoardExecutive Director
Neil has been associated with the firm on a full-time basis since June 2004, having completed his Summer Training with us earlier. Although he was initially involved in the Research Department, he found his natural calling in the more action-oriented field of Institutional Equity Dealing.
Rajeev Thakkar
BoardExecutive Director
Rajeev Thakkar is director of Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services Pvt. Limited (PPFAS Ltd.). He possesses over 15 years of experience in various segments of the Capital Markets such as investment banking, corporate finance, securities broking and managing clients' investments in equities.
Vikas Gandhi
BoardExecutive Director
Chartered Accountant
Vikas Gandhi is an accomplished Chartered Accountant with over 23 years of experience in the Banking, Mutual Fund, Insurance, and Financial Services sectors. Served as Head – Finance & Accounts at Mirae Asset Mutual Fund and Group Companies, his key achievements included Mirae Asset group restructuring in India, implementing Ind AS and setting up units in GIFT City and Dubai. He also worked on projects involving setting up of Alternate Investment Funds and launch of various International ETFs and Fund of Funds for Mirae Asset in India.
Suneel Gautam
BoardNon-Executive Director
Chartered Accountant
Mr. Suneel Gautam is a Chartered Accountant-turned-entrepreneur with over 35 years of experience in communications, reputation management, and strategic advisory. After beginning his career in banking, financial accounting, and investment banking, he pursued his passion for advertising and co-founded CLEA Advertising & Marketing in 1985. Under his leadership, CLEA grew into India's seventh-largest advertising firm by the mid-1990s and the country's leading specialist in financial communications and IPO advisory. In 1995, he established Clea PR, which became India's No. 1 PR firm by 1998.
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Sahil Parikh
BoardNon-Executive Director
Sahil is the founder of Synage Software Pvt. Ltd. (www.synage.com) - a software as a service (SaaS) company based out of Mumbai, India. Synage Software's first product, DeskAway was one of the first few on-demand services to be designed, developed and marketed from India for small businesses globally. His book, The SaaS Edge (How companies can leverage Software As A Service for competitive advantage) was published by Tata McGraw-Hill in early 2011.
Dipti Neelakantan
BoardIndependent Director
Ms. Dipti Neelakantan has nearly four decades of professional experience in the financial and capital markets. Ms. Neelakantan joined the JM Financial group in the year 1981 as a trainee and grew in various disciplines and positions over time. She retired in mid-2019 as Group Chief Operating Officer and part of the Firm Management at JM Financial Group.
Hitesh Gajaria
BoardNon-Executive Director
Chartered Accountant
Mr. Hitesh Gajaria is a Chartered Accountant with over four decades of professional experience. Throughout his career, he has built trusted advisory relationships with promoters and corporate boards, advising them on strategic business decisions, leveraging his expertise in taxation, transfer pricing and regulatory matters.
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