Mayank Patel (@mayank-patel)

Mayank Patel

Head - Advisory Services, IBGrid

Dr Mayank Patel, CFA has over twenty-five years of experience in banking, financial services, technology business incubation and academics. He has received a doctorate in management and a CFA charter from the CFA Institute, USA. His academic and research interests are financial markets, asset pricing, behavioural finance, risk management and quantitative methods. He has published research articles in eminent peer-reviewed journals. He specializes in fintech, investment research, corporate finance, and financial derivatives. He has mentored over one hundred startups as the CEO of two startup incubators. He is a keen follower of geopolitics, political economy and development in the field of education. At present, He leads the investment banking team at Indiabiz, an Ahmedabad-based fintech company.

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