Arpit has over 3 decades of experience and has successfully built greenfield and sizable Private Banking businesses for DSP Merrill Lynch, BNP Paribas and ICICI Bank in India. Notably, his efforts were recognised both locally and internationally. In 2005, ICICI Bank’s Private Banking business, with AUM of over US$6 billion, was ranked the largest in India by CLSA and amongst the top 3 in the Asia-Pacific by Private Banker International. Early 2006, he set up a Greenfield financial services business for the Dawnay Day AV group in India, a joint venture with partners in the UK. As the MD & Group CEO, in a short span of three years, the business grew to over 1800 people in 8 cities and over 40 branches. Mid 2008, the entire financial services business was successfully sold to a PE firm. He also held the position of CEO of the wealth management business of Bajaj Finserv, one of the largest financial services groups in India. With hands–on experience with high net worth client portfolios and hundreds of multi-client meets over the last several years, he has a good understanding of various types of private client profiles, their needs and their expectations from the organisation and their relationship managers.Arpit was instrumental in setting up strong private banking research and client portfolio advisory services across all organizations. Coupled with a credible and successful track record, the publications received recognition and became benchmarks of the industryArpit has been an avid trainer having conducted many thousand man hours of training. He has been instrumental in launching Private Banking programmes in over 26 MBA schools, a first in India. He has been invited to chair and speak at Banking and Investment Seminars and Conferences across the globe. Arpit, who is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP), served as the Chairman of CFP’s Examination and Certification committee in India for many years. Arpit is a founding member of the Pune International Centre.