Mr. V. Ramanan has vast experience in setting up and managing equity research team in several sell side domestic & global investment banks and buy side as well where he worked very closely with the fund management team. The last seven years were in Fund mamagement.Ramanan satrted his career with ICICI Ltd where he worked for 12 years and moved to the sell side in 1994 to set up reserach at kotak securities (then part of kotak mahindra Finance Ltd), when the equities market opened up for institutional securities. worked with several global investment banks over the next 7 years. This phase included Smith New court, which merged with Merrill Lynch,