Meet the people behind Jeetay's value investing approach
The visionaries who established Jeetay's investment philosophy
Chetan Parikh is a co-promoter of Jeetay Investments Private Limited, a portfolio management firm registered with SEBI. He holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business (where he graduated with distinction in the top 2% of the class) and a BSc in Statistics & Economics from University of Bombay (Economics record holder in Bombay University).
He also serves as visiting faculty at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (University of Bombay) for the MBA course. His writings have been published in Business Standard, Business World, The Economic Times and Business India. His work can also be read at www.capitalideasonline.com.
Chetan was rated amongst India's best investors by Business India magazine. He is also the co-promoter of capitalideasonline.com, a well-regarded investment website.
Vinay Parikh was a Director, founder, and portfolio manager of Jeetay Investments until his passing in 2023. Jeetay Investments is a portfolio management firm registered with SEBI. He held an MBA from the Wharton School of Business (where he graduated with distinction in the top 2% of the class) and a BSc in Statistics & Economics from University of Bombay. He had been investing in the Indian capital markets for over 25 years.
Vinay also advised leading business houses on financial strategy, bringing deep insights from both investment management and corporate finance perspectives.
Experienced professionals providing governance and strategic guidance
Mr. Tushar Mahadevia is a commerce graduate and has vast experience in business and industry.
Gayatri Parikh is the Executive Director of Ensemble, India's first haute couture store. She has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and a Master's in International Policy Studies from Stanford University, California.
She started her career as a financial analyst at The First Boston Corporation, San Francisco. Her switch from finance to fashion took place in 1990, when she returned to India to take over merchandising, marketing, finance, operations and strategic direction at Ensemble.
Abhirami Patel is the sole proprietor of her travel agency, World Traveller established in 1999. She has graduated from St Xavier's college with a Bachelor's Degree in Arts specialising in Economics and Commerce.
She also pursued a course in travel and Tourism with IATA/UFTAA - Geneva through correspondence. She commenced her career with her first job at Travel World Ahmedabad in 1993 and then moved to Mumbai where she looked after international ticketing for corporate business with Travel Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd.
Aria Vinay Parikh is associated with Ensemble. She has graduated from Swarthmore College, USA with Double Major: Psychology & Peace and Conflict Studies.
Experienced professionals conducting in-depth equity market research
Keval Shah is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI) and has cleared two levels of the CFA Program from the CFA Institute, USA. He joined Jeetay in March 2018, and brings over 7.5 years of experience in equity market research. At Jeetay, he has conducted in-depth, bottom-up research across sectors including FMCG, Consumer Discretionary, Manufacturing & Industrials, EPC, and Information Technology.
Sumer Parikh joined Jeetay after spending 8 years in the Private Equity team of EY-Parthenon in New York and London, conducting over 70 commercial due diligences for leading private equity investors and hedge funds. He has experience evaluating public and private companies across technology, healthcare, industrial and education.
He holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Computer Science from Princeton University, where he was awarded the Shapiro Prize for academic excellence (recognizing the top 3% of first and second year students for outstanding academic achievement, deep intellectual engagement, and challenging coursework, based on cumulative GPA and course difficulty). He has also completed in the Value Investing (Online) program offered by Columbia Business School.