An experienced Business Head with demonstrated history of entrepreneurial style of working with over 20 years of work experience. He has diverse experience in financial sector that includes Financial Planning & Analysis, Market and Product Risk Analysis, Asset Management, Pension Funds, Equities and Data Modelling & Analytics. His contribution has been in developing software products and recommendation engine for mutual fund analytics being used by lots of mutual fund companies, large distribution houses and banks. He has served in reputed organizations like ICRA Online, CRISIL (research and analysis); worked as Head- Research at Citibank, Head-Products at Standard Chartered AMC, CEO at IDFC Pension Fund; Project team for setting up IDFC bank before taking over the responsibility to set up analytics business unit for IDFC Mutual Fund. In current role he has successfully setup data warehouse by integrating data from various sources to power the MIS and business analytics platform. Vikash is a strong finance professional with an Executive Program in Business Analytics focused in data Analytics and Data Sciences from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; MBA – Finance from India Institute of Finance; BSC (Physics Hons); CFP from FPSB India; cleared CT1, CT2, CT3 from Institute of Faculty of Actuaries, UK