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Some of the ValueNotes' Writers
Anil Joneja
An architect by profession for 15 years, Anil got interested in the markets and soon got drawn away from architecture over a decade ago. Since then, he has been a freelance technical analyst and market watcher. He has been writing the Technical analysis related articles in a monthly investment newsletter, The Rational Investor, since March 1996. He writes a weekly technical analysis column for ValueNotes, which has also been published at Itspace.com.
Arun Jethmalani
Arun has had extensive experience in IT, management consulting and equity research. He has been a columnist with the Economic Times (India's largest financial daily) for five years and has also written for Business World (India's No.1 business magazine), apart from being published on numerous web-sites. He has edited a financial newsletter called the Rational Investor for five years, and written and edited numerous research reports for corporate clients. He is part of the core team at ValueNotes.
Ashok Kanetkar
Ashok is a retired executive, with senior-level experience at several companies. Apart from his experience of the corporate sector as well as the engineering industry - he is an articulate and dedicated student of Graham, Buffet and other investment gurus.
Amit Jhunjhunwala
Amit's passion for the capital markets, enables him to watch the world markets, round-the-clock...literally. As a technical analyst, he writes a weekly column for ValueNotes on the global stock exchanges.
Dipak Sen
Dipak is a qualified chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has had over 6 years' of experience in helping businesses thrive. He has worked extensively as a financial analyst, and is currently the head of finance, with Usha Siam Steel Industries, Thailand, and is responsible for the whole gamut of commercial functions.
Dnyanesh Bhatavadekar
Dnyanesh is an independent financial planner offering investment solutions through equity and mutual funds. He has also worked to establish several small businesses in the start-up phase, as diverse as direct marketing of formalwear, software education and Internet advertising concepts. An engineer with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Finance), Dnyanesh is a keen student of the Ben Graham and Philip Fisher styles of investing.
Ketan Shrimankar
Ketan is a chartered accountant who gave up a successful practice to focus on his first love - equities and investments. He worked with a start-up merchant banker Equisearch till 1997, when he joined Piyush Vora Securities as CEO. He now works with a venture capital advisory firm - Upstart Advisers Pvt. Ltd. He used to write a regular column (industry analysis) for the web-site dhan.com, and now also writes a weekly column for Times Computing apart from being a regular contributor to ValueNotes.
Madan Mohan Rao
Madan graduated from IIT, Bombay and then completed an MS in computer science and a Ph.D. in communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was formerly Communications Director at the UN Press Service Bureau in New York. A frequent speaker on the international conference circuit, he has given talks and lectures on Internet-related issues in about 35 countries. He has worked with online services in the U.S., Brazil, and India, and is currently an online correspondent for New York-based Editor & Publisher magazine's MediaInfo site, and Malaysia-based Skali (the Altavista mirror site in Asia). His articles have also appeared in New Asia Review, Asia Internet Business, Economic Times, Business Standard, Economic and Political Weekly, IT Vision, IndiaInfo.com, IndiaInfoline.com, LAN Magazine, and Express Computer. He is on the editorial board of the magazines Electronic Markets (www.electronicmarkets.org - published from Switzerland) and On The Internet (published by the Internet Society - www.isoc.org).
Mahesh Joshi
Mahesh has been an active investor for over a decade. He has a passion for the equity markets, and spends his time studying stocks and writing about them. As an independent analyst, he believes that sound investment strategy must combine knowledge of company fundamentals as well as market movements, or technicals.
Manish Goyal
Manish is currently at SCMHRD, Pune doing an MBA (Marketing). He has been an active freelancer, and his articles have been published in the Asian Age and Competition Success Review. Through ValueNotes, he has been published on several leading Indian web-sites like Kotakstreet.com and indya.com.
Navneet Singh Hora
Navneet has just graduated from The Indian Institute of Cost and Management Studies and Research (IndSearch), Pune, with a Master's in Personnel Management. He has experience in a number of companies such as Ranbaxy, Holiday Inn and Dynamic Logistics in various HR functions. Navneet is actively involved in the Placement Committee at IndSearch. He writes extensively on HR issues and has been published on Kotakstreet.com and Itspace.com.
Nikhilesh Rao
Nikhilesh is a software professional from Hyderabad, with a passion for investing. He is as well versed in the bits and bytes that make up the Net, as the philosophies of Buffet and Soros. He has been a correspondent for ValueNotes for over a year, and has also been published on other Indian web-sites.
Pinank Mehta
A Chemical Engineer and a Textile Chemist from North Carolina State University at Raleigh, USA, Pinank Mehta ventured into the broking arena after an eight year long stint in the textile marketing business. He moved to asset management in 1996, and at present focuses on consulting and advising clients on managing their wealth. Pinank "writes publicly only on broad investment principles and philosophy and the macro economic environment insofar as it affects money." He has earlier written for the Blitz, and now writes for ValueNotes.
Prakash Gaba
Prakash Gaba is a committed Professional Technical Analyst. He is an MBA by qualification, exposed to the corporate world as a senior manager at quite an early age way back in the seventies. He is an avid reader, a Marksman and an Aviator who has a passion for flying. He loves outdoor activities, and indulges himself in trekking, river rafting, wind-surfing, scuba diving and skiing. He believes that Technical Analysis is one of the most difficult and challenging subjects that he has ever come across.
Pravin Bhandarkar
Pravin has a Bachelor's in Electronics and Telecommunication from Pune University and a Masters in Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, NJ. He is now a software professional, based in San Jose, California, working with a networking major. His professional interests include object-oriented programming and networking. He follows technology trends and valuations with great interest. In the past, he has written a technical paper based on collaboration in heterogeneous networks, which was published in a journal of The International Electronics and Electrical Engineers Association.
Priya Pavithran
Priya has a BA in English Literature and a PG Degree in Mass Communications. She has been a writer and poet since her school days, and has also worked with The New Indian Express. She has been an editor with ValueNotes for a year, and also writes regular columns and features.
Pune Investors' Forum
The forum was established on November 14, 1992 as a non-profit organization with two main objectives. Firstly to advise small investors on their investments and secondly to guide them on the appropriate action to be taken where their funds are misused or blocked. The work done by the Investor's Forum to date has been path breaking and the Forum has been recognized as a well-respected advisory organization in its field. The Forum has had success in securing from various companies, refund orders, share allotment and redemption of debentures. It played a major role in securing return of fixed deposits in a company like Garware Nylon. The satisfaction of the members of the forum speaks of its success. The Forum also addresses investors through interviews and articles in investment magazines and newspapers and organizes talks by various experts, as well as workshops on related topics.
ValueNotes has been working closely with Investors' Forum, Pune in jointly publishing articles related to investor protection and investor rights as well as in providing a query service for users of the site.
Rahul Baji
Rahul is a software engineer with around 6 years of experience. After a stint with Tata Infotech Ltd., he has set up his own consulting practice and provides e-consulting services to Internet companies. He is a consultant to ValueNotes and likes to write on technical subjects as well as on issues pertaining to the IT sector.
Raghu Iyer
Raghu runs a Chartered Accountancy firm in Bombay. His firm has conducted several workshops in the areas of finance and taxation for large companies in the Indian corporate sector. He is part of the visiting faculty of S P Jain, one of Bombay's leading Business Schools. He works closely with the Bombay Stock Exchange and regularly conducts training programmes on the derivatives market.
Ramachandran T V
T V Ramachandran has a Fellow Membership of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a PhD. in Commerce awarded by the University of Poona. Having worked as Company Secretary / Senior General Manager (Legal) for 27 years in large multinationals like Alfa Laval India, he has a keen insight into the workings of the Corporate world. He retired from service in December 1996 and has since been rendering corporate advisory services, and writing for various publications including ValueNotes.
Rational Investor
This is a monthly four-page newsletter written by Anil Joneja and Arun Jethmalani and edited by Arun Jethmalani. The newsletter is circulated (as a hard copy) by Gupta Equities to its clients, and is available for re-publishing. It reviews covers various stocks, companies and sectors of the Indian capital markets and other investment-related issues of interest to the individual investor.
Ritesh Chandra
As a senior associate with the Global Corporate Finance practice of Arthur Andersen, Ritesh handles all technology and software industry clients for North India. He has a Bachelors degree in engineering and a Masters in MBA from FMS, University of Delhi. Ritesh has taught at various international and national training programs, and has been a regular contributor to internal publications of his firm and other publications. He has also written a few short articles for publications like Competition Success Review.
Sandeep Chokhani
Sandeep is a commerce graduate with a diploma in basic computer programming. He spent a few years working in the area of containerized cargo transportation and later in the area of cotton yarn. He has a keen interest in investment banking and writing.
Sandip Raichura
Sandip is currently in charge of CRM at Cholamandalam Distribution Services. Earlier he was an equity analyst with Acumen Securities and then an economist at the Group Corporate Office of the Murugappa group. He was later the Strategic Alliances Manager at EID Parry Corporate. Sandip is a Commerce Honours graduate from SRCC and has a Masters in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. He has written for several publications in the past - Take Stock, a Cholamandalam magazine for HNI's and fund managers, Chartered Financial Analyst and the annual reports of the Murugappa Group.
Sanjay Dutt
Sanjay manages a brokerage firm in Delhi, Quantum Securities. He has a keen eye for often making the right investment choice. He writes a weekly column, for ValueNotes, on the Indian capital markets, which is being published on www.Indya.com
Shrihari Khanwelkar
Shrihari has a Masters in Management Studies from Pune University and has Diplomas in Mechanical Engineering and Marketing Management. He is a consultant for many companies in the area of sales and marketing and behavioral sciences. He has conducted workshops for organizations like Siemens, Philips, Essar Group, BARC, in the areas of communication, leadership, team management, and time management. Shrihari's passion for writing led him to start a monthly newsletter on HR, in Pune, 5 months. He has also been published in the Times of India, and now on various websites through ValueNotes.
Tarun Malaviya
Tarun is the CEO of Mithi Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Pune. His firm is a leader in enabling computers and the Internet to work in Indian languages, and has developed the award winning "LEAP" software for word processing in 13 languages. They also manage the highly successful site, mailjol.com. He lectures and writes on IT, and has been published in the Pune Times, as well as ValueNotes, Itspace.com and kotakstreet.com.
Upendra Sahi
Upendra has been an equity analyst with Zuari Investments His interests vary from advising high networth clients on investments, to studying the capital market trends. He follows the "growth model" school of thought and looks for possible values in growth stories. He has earlier written for an in-house publication, In-Chambal, and now writes for ValueNotes and it's client sites.
Varsha Chitale
Varsha is a graduate of the London School of Economics, has over a decade's experience in finance and consulting. She was a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. She later moved to the Strategic Management Centre, Pune, to explore areas of interest with overseas consultancy organisations and to monitor the Indian Business Environment for the benefit of Indian clients and overseas companies with an interest in India. She is now one of the core members of the ValueNotes editorial and management team.
Vijay Bhambwani
Vijay has a degree in commerce, Diploma in Business management a Law degree, and has been in the investment arena since 1989, with his own stock-broking firm Bhambwani Securities (P) Ltd. Vijay Bhambwani has been writing for the leading financial daily " The Business Standard " on a periodic basis as a technical analyst. He has also been appointed by Aptech Internet's Q&A portal www.tringtring.com as an investment guru.
Vivek Mavani
Vivek has been an equity "nut" for several years now. Starting out with Strategic Investment & Research in 1996, he later joined the fund management / equity research team of Parag Parikh Financial Services. He was earlier contributing a regular investment column for the web-site www.dhan.com. He now works with ASK Raymond James as an analyst.
Vivek Warrier
Vivek has a Bachelors in Science from the Madras University, a Diploma in Computer Science from Andhra University and finally, an MBA from IIM, Bangalore. He worked with Wipro and ITC Information Systems as a software developer. He later joined HTA and managed their Tech accounts. He now runs Alliance Infosystems in Bangalore - focussing on a Software Product in the Telecom Call Accounting market space.
His interests vary from technology to astronomy.
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