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Sajal is CEO and Founding Partner of Amana Global Partners. He has two decades of experience managing global investments for sophisticated Single Family Offices. He has allocated more than USD 5 billion in global investments. Alternative Investment CIO magazine had selected him, on their ‘40 under 40’ Chief Investment Officer list for 2016 and he is honoured to be the only CIO globally to be recognized from SFO space. AIWMI has selected Sajal on its 2020 ’40 under 40’ Alternative Investments professional. He was involved with many notable international committees mainly – CFA Disciplinary Review Committee, Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) Investor Steering Committee, CAIA Middle East Advisory Committee, Evolvence India fund advisory and others. He is CAIA, CFA and CDDA Charterholder, CMA certified and has an MBA from London Business School. He is actively involved on international conference speaker’s circuit and have been regularly invited as speaker at prominent alternative investment conferences globally, mainly New York, Boston, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, London, Geneva, Dubai, Singapore and others. During his association with AIMA he was involved with writing papers on subjects like Liquidity, Portfolio transformers and Beyond 60/40. He is an avid traveller and have been passionately involved in collecting Indian contemporary art.

Mr. Madhusudan Subramanian Founder and Chief Information Officer, Azimuth Research Mr. Madhusudan Subramanian is the Founder and CIO of Azimuth Research, a leading global investment research and analytics firm based in Mumbai. He has worked at MSCI, Morgan Stanley, Principal Financial Group, Kotak Mahindra Group and American Express in roles spanning Quantitative investment research and strategies, new product development, risk analytics and Fin-Tech ventures. As a former Executive Director and Co-Head of Global Quantitative Research and a Member of Equity Index Committee at MSCI, he oversaw nearly USD 50 billion+ ETF and smart beta strategies linked to MSCI Global, Factor, ESG and Economic Exposure Indexes. He brings over 20 years of experience in Global Equities, Quantitative Research, Factor and ESG based investing. His expertise lies in employing a distinct “Quantamental” research process that integrates Quantitative Factor Analytics with deep fundamental and thematic analysis to uncover high quality growth and value stocks and run Systematic multi-asset trading strategies across Developed and Emerging markets. Mr. Madhusudan received an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School of Business, a Masters Diploma in International Business from NMIMS, Mumbai and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Trichy. He also holds the CFA and CAIA designations.