Our Team

Venkat Chidambaram is a director on the board of Western Thomson (India) Ltd. Previously he has held senior Investment management positions in Towry Investment Management, UK and TFO Management LLP, UK & middle east. He spent over ten years as an Investment Director with GAM based in London, UK. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the American Intercontinental University (AIU) in London, a MBA from Bayes Business School (City Univ.), London and served in the British Army Reserves.

Mr Vijayakumar is Executive Director with responsibility for the corporate finance activities of RCCR. He has experience of over 28 years in Business Development, Banking & Finance, Corporate Strategy, and Risk Management. Previously he was Business Head, SME with Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Ltd, and Chief Risk Officer in Adithya Birla Finance. He also served as Country Risk Head, Euler Hermes India (Allianz Group), and spent 13 years with Small Industries Development Bank of India in various positions. He is an MBA from IIM, Bangalore, and BE (Mech) from the College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

Karuna has over seven years of experience as an equity analyst with a regional stockbroking firm in southern India. He specialised in Technical analysis of both stocks and index derivatives. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Anna University and an MBA from Bharathiar University. He is based in our Chennai, India research office and is responsible for our global macro-economic research, sector research, and fund analysis