Pankaj Tibrewal

Pankaj Tibrewal is the Founder and CIO of IKIGAI Asset Manager. He spent over two decades in fund management, including a 14-year stint at Kotak Mahindra AMC where he ran the Kotak Emerging Equity Fund, Kotak Small Cap Fund and the equity portion of Kotak Equity Hybrid Fund, together managing assets of roughly Rs 56,000 crore. He grew Kotak Emerging Equity Fund from about Rs 113 crore to Rs 36,000 crore and Kotak Small Cap Fund from about Rs 127 crore to Rs 13,000 crore. He holds a Bachelor's degree from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and a Master's in Finance from the University of Manchester, and has been recognised among India's top fund managers by Outlook Business, The Economic Times and Morningstar.