Deepak Tolani, Cfa, Caia Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Washington DC, Washington DC, US

• Founded registered investment advisory firm focused on public equities in Africa and MENA targeted toward institutional investors. Lead PM of benchmark agnostic, high conviction strategy with focus on stock selection.
• Designed bottom-up research process with explicit handling of currency risk and exantesource of expected returns. Focus on generating alpha by taking long-term views on businesses with structural growth.
• Implemented operational and regulatory structure including dealing with custodian, administrator, auditor, and formulated compliance manual, code of ethics, business continuity and privacy policies.
• Actively marketed strategies to 150+ prospective partners and authored quarterly investment letters.

London, England, GB

• Lead PM of the $390mn Africa fund (45 companies, 14 countries). Focused on stock selection, position sizing, and cash management across five share classes.
• Built proprietary financial models to determine fair value by focusing on establishing a picture of the strategy, growth and sustainable cash return profile.

Abu Dhabi, AE

• Generated investment ideas for three regional funds ($500mn AUM) following a fundamental bottom-up philosophy. Generated a 12-month average return of +3.9% in 2011, +14.6% in 2012 and +24.6% in 2013 across various.
• Built financial models with emphasis on forecasting key revenue drivers and margins. Valuation methodologies used included DCF, DDM, and residual income.

Dubai, AE

• Led team of analysts to provide research coverage on 36 Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) listed equities - initiations, quarterly earnings releases and macro overviews.
• Initiated and maintained research coverage on 14 banks in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. Sell-side lead banking analyst covering the GCC region.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Assigned trading limits based on analysis of secured and unsecured counterparty exposure risks for a $60 billion non-mortgage fixed income portfolio based on issuers’ profitability, asset quality, capital structure and.
• Analyzed monthly performance data of 62 consumer ABS issuers and developed scorecard methodology to rank issuers based on performance of $13.6 billion of securitized credit card receivables and $3.1 billion of.

CA

• Analyzed business initiatives, such as proposals for expansion of local and international locations, by constructing revenue and expense forecasts to facilitate strategy development and justify capital expenses.
• Performed Net Present Value (NPV) analysis based on forecasted revenues, capital expenditures and operating costs. Responsible for presenting conclusions to Capital Advisory Board.

• Analyzed business operations and created financial models, including NPV/Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Lease-buy analysis, and Economic Value Added analysis.
• Created Cost-to-Serve model to analyze customer profitability based on revenue growth, individual product margins, capital expenses, distribution, transportation and financing costs.
• Co-led group to design and implement new annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes for wholesale operations (15 Distribution centers, $2 billion revenues).

Mba, Finance

Bsc., Computer Engineering