Investment & Risk Committee
Mr Mitra is counted among pioneers in Indian Capital Markets. During the 1980’s and 90’s he set up Capital Market businesses for Bank of India, American Express Bank and Standard Chartered Bank, in India. He was the founding MD of General Insurance Company Mutual Fund. As Director, Financial Services for the Aditya Birla Group, he is credited with the set up and growth of the conglomerates large financial services business that includes mutual fund and life insurance.
Vikas has over 25 years of experience in sales & distribution strategy, business management having held leadership positions at multinational banks like DBS and Deutsche Bank. He led the way in setting up and strengthening Private and Business Client operations, third party distribution and client acquisition strategy for Investment and Insurance products. He was also deputed to Frankfurt, Germany as part of the International Private and Business Clients Product team at Deutsche. Prior to that Vikas was an early team member at Allianz. Vikas will drive the overall Sales, client acquisition, product & marketing strategy for India as well as offshore business.
He holds a Masters in Management Studies degree and is IIM Ahmedabad Alumni (Sr. Management Development Program).
Vikram brings along 25 years of outstanding investment experience across equities & debt. In his previous role as CIO – Equities for Deutsche Asset Management India, Vikram led the team that provided equity investment advisory for more than US$ 1 billion in equity assets, spread across domestic India Funds, India-dedicated Offshore Funds and Funds allocated to India from wider geographic mandates. Prior to that, he oversaw establishment and growth of equity and debt investment function at Birla Sun Life Insurance. Under his tenure as Chief Investment Officer, Birla Sun Life Insurance AUM grew from US$ 220 million to US$ 4 billion, that included funds from gratuity funds, provident funds, pension funds & charitable trusts. Vikram is a Chartered Accountant and has done Leadership Development Program from Wharton Business School.
Vikshit has excellent exposure to Compliance matters. He has over 7+ years of experience into the filed like regulatory compliances, KYC & AML Compliances, corporate governance and RBI/FEMA compliances pertaining to PMS, AIF and Mutual Fund. He also has a good command on Company Law and LLP compliances. Prior to Ace Lansdowne, he was a Compliance Officer at Magadh Capital Advisors. Before that he has worked with Baroda Mutual Fund, Citicorp Services India and BNP Paribas Wealth Management. Vikshit is Inter CS from Institute of Company Secretaries of India and holds Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from the Mumbai University.