Romit Barat

Investment Evangelist. Pursuing PhD in Management.
Mumbai
Summary:
Romit is a Product Professional with adequate functional
competency to run a profit centre involving various departments from
Sales, marketing, operations, customer Support and administration.
With more than 19 years of experience of Handling products &
customer based product positioning strategy & retention across
diverse industry spectrum, Romit’s last assignment was Business
Head – PMS and AIF with Narnolia Capital Advisors Limited. He was
part of the startup and leadership team.
In earlier assignment, Romit has single handed developed the
business from scratch to leading brand with 100%Yoy grown during
his tenure....
He is also a skilled communicator with exceptional presentation
skills, strongly analytical, problem solving & organizational
abilities and abilities in leading teams and establishing beneficial
relationships with key players in the industry.
Romit is a result-oriented sales professional having demonstrated
knowledge and expertise in the areas of Mutual Funds, Exchange
Traded Funds, Portfolio Management Services, Structured Products,
Investment Advisory, Wealth Management, Private Banking,
Financial Planning, Investment Banking, merchant banking,
corporate finance & Insurance across different companies in the
Financial Services and the Banking sector.
He specializes in Mutual Funds, PMS, ETF's, Structured
Products, Wealth Management, Investment Advisory, Channel
Management, Relationship Management & Team Management.
He has extensively worked in HNI and super HNI sales and
currently advises large number of them on their business and wealth
management.
Romit is also an active blogger and regularly writes on Business
Management, Corporate Finance, Capital Management, loan
syndication and debt financing. Some of his recent blog is linked
below for reading, learning and sharing.
Experience:
AKTA Capital Advisers LLP
Partner & Co-Owner
October 2019 - Present (2 years 4 months)
Mumbai Area, India
1. A Boutique financial services firm that offers both capital management and
wealth management service through delightful association experience!!
2. Akta Capital Advisers LLP is an independent research entity offering
Research services on personal finance products to customers. Akta Capital
Advisers LLP is applying to regulators for Research Analyst registration.
3. We also provide advisory services on Loans, Investment, Protection and
Savings (LIPS) through our subsidiary units under the brand AKTACONNECT.
4. Our subsidiary unit AKTA Associates provides a broad range of financial
products and services to a large and diversified client base that includes
corporations, institutions and individuals. Our products and services span
varied asset classes, consumer segments and geographies.
5. As an business entity, AKTA CONNECT is now present across 6 offices in
India and abroad with over 2500+ delightful investors & clients.
6. We also distributes, inter alia, special assets & funds targeted towards
distressed as well as early stress/ restructured assets through our subsidiary
AKTA Management & Consultancy LLP
7. For more information, kindly visit us at www.aktaconnect.com
Narnolia
Vice President & Sales Head - PMS and Alternate Investment
Strategies
January 2017 - September 2019 (2 years 9 months)
Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Identifying opportunities (need for new products), building a business
proposal, initiate product development cycle in consultation with the Research
team, launching the product, create AUM and set the investment miracles on
to work.
- Responsible for setting up the entire PMS & Alternate Investment strategies
business on a National Level creating Sales channel, product communication
strategies and post sales service strategy.
- Responsible for setting up the international product strategies for NRI and
overseas clients.
- Launching product that is creating incremental bottom-line performance by
over 100% YoY.
- Has been instrumental in facilitating the company to win prestigious awards in
various National platforms (BSE/Tefla/etc) through show-casing of product and
process competency using intelligent Data analytics.
Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company Limited
Regional Sales Head - East & Central
April 2012 - November 2016 (4 years 8 months)
India
- Part of start-up team of Motilal Oswal AMC and responsible for entire
organization set up and expansion across East and some part of central India.
- Was responsible for making MOAMC a leading PMS and Mutual Fund
brands in the top 5 AMC brand in the East locations as per wealth-forum
survey (2016) : http://www.wealthforumezine.net/WFACSPart3070616.html
- Featured in top 10 AMC brand for parameter like #distributorengagement,
innovative sales strategies, building confidence around equity investing
amongst investors and distributors, #training on equity investing.
- Increased business from scratch to 800cr+ within 4.8 years and established
the region as one of the most profitable regions in the country on an
organization scale achieving CAGR growth of performance at staggering 203%
Year on Year.
Principal Financial Group
Vice President and Zonal Head
September 2010 - February 2012 (1 year 6 months)
India
Was responsible for running the organization across East and Central India.
responsible for day to day operations and business function.
ICICI Prudential AMC Ltd
Cluster Head
July 2007 - August 2010 (3 years 2 months)
- Responsible for setting up the up country and retails distribution beyond
KOLKATA.
- Emerged as the largest location as rest of Kolkata cluster (Entire Bengal
location ex-Kolkata) after Kolkata in terms of business mobilization and
efficiency.
- Awarded CEO Performance award for being the fastest growing cluster
across the India clocking 50% QoQ.
- Achieved promotions every year.
Kotak Life
Regional Trade Marketing Manager
June 2004 - July 2007 (3 years 2 months)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- In charge is trade marketing function for the Kotak life insurance business
across east locations.
- Responsible for branch opening activity and create life insurance advisors
recruitment programe for new and existing branch.
- Recruitment of new life insurance advisors and train then to become active
within assigned time of on boarding.
- In charge of marketing and channel development activity across East
locations.
- Responsible for downloading and executing R&R activity at the local level as
it HO plan.
Score Information Technologies Limited, Gurgaon.
Business Process Analyst
May 2000 - May 2004 (4 years 1 month)
Kolkata Area, India
Business Analyst and Faculty - Information system.
Education
National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM)
NISM - X-A / X-B / XV / IX / XII - Investment Adviser / Research Analyst /
Merchant Banking/Etc, Securities market / Capital Markets · (2020 - 2020)
Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and
Management, General · (2001-2004)
Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad
Postgraduate Degree, Management Information Systems and
Services · (September 1999 - September 2001)
University of Calcutta
Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Mathematics and
Statistics · (1996 -1999)