~ Srikanth Iyengar is an entrepreneurial Senior Management professional in Capital Markets with strong expertise in Equity Investing, Hedge Funds, Financial Derivatives and Risk Management. He is currently a long term value investor in listed and unlisted equities.~He has an excellent strategic understanding of Indian financial services; having worked in creating the capital market infrastructure at NSE and then working closely with successful entrepreneurs in the domain since their pre IPO days. ~ Srikanth was part of the "Core Group"​ to set up the equity derivatives market and risk management in the country with National Stock Exchange of India.~ Earlier he was involved in consulting assignments which included:* India Consulting: Consulted with Aditya Birla Group in India to set up a commodity hedging desk for hedging the metal price risk of their metals production * Overseas Consulting: Strategize the risk management practices for Chubb Insurance and Credit Suisse Private Banking in New York and Singapore respectively ~ After the start of the derivatives market in India, Srikanth has been leading the initiation and management of alternative investment management desks with P& L responsibilities managing a team of 30+ professionals from Ivy league colleges.~ He ran a Multi Strategy fund for over a decade encompassing Algo trading, quantitative long/short, relative value, gamma trading, special situation trades et al. The fund had an impressive track record without a negative quarter over the tenure(2003-14).~ He won the HFM week award for "Single Manager long term performance (3 years & more) in Asia -2012. His business was a leading market maker for listed ETF's in India with over 70% market share.He also ran the portfolio analytics and math works for "Value Investing" portfolio of over $500M.~ Currently, he is involved in running an absolute return fund and investing in startups focused on fintech, marketplace and consumer spaces.