ABANS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Wealth Management Team
- Banker
A banker with over 15 years of experience, Bhavik has worked across relationship management verticals and headed some of the largest financial advisory desks in India. He heads our Wealth and Investment Management business.
Mayank conceptualized and set up the Enterprise Risk Management desk at Abans based on his experience of over 11 years at industry leading firms. Having played multiple roles in risk management, credit research, and predictive modeling, Mayank believes that effective risk management is the most fundamental business enabler.
An undergraduate degree holder in engineering, Mayank is also armed with a postgraduate degree in Finance from the Mumbai University.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Managing Director
- Member of the Wealth Management Team
- Back Office
Chairman and Managing Director of the Abans Group, Abhishek founded the company single-handedly at the age of 18. Having started out as a Gold Arbitrageur, Abhishek has leveraged his business acumen to position the Group as one of the fastest growing financial conglomerates in Asia.
Mr. Abhishek Bansal, 34, is the key Promoter and Director of Abans group. He holds a Master's Degree in Commerce from Mumbai University. Mr. Bansal always held a deep passion for the commodity market, and started Abans at the age of 18 as a single man army. Under Mr. Bansal's guidance, the company has grown from being a traditional stock trading & broking firm into a dynamic and diversified business group. Abans company now deals in Stock and Commodity Broking Services, Merchant Banking, Non Banking Financial Services, Renewable Energy, Gems & Jewels, Realty & Infrastructure services etc, employing nearly 400 people now.
Mr. Bansal is an avid reader of historical Indian texts, modern scientific findings and psychology. He believes in adopting the latest technology and innovations, while keeping the roots of his Indian traditions in place. A potent love for vedic maths and calculus gives him the reputation of being extremely fast and meticulous in his calculations. He loves to study world politics, understand the nitty-gritty of the relationship shared between politics and economics and the way it affects human life and relationships.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Chief Executive Officer
Pivotal in setting up our bullion business, Chintan has developed its trading desk, expanded jewelry exports across Asia and Europe, and established Abans as a market leader in retail sales of gold and silver coins.
He has also helped grow our refining business by getting it accredited by the BIS and the NABL and by building an export capacity of over 5 tonnes of gold and 200 tonnes of silver per annum.
Chintan is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience in bullion trading.
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant
- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Wealth Management Team
Nirbhay Vassa is a qualified chartered accountant with 15 years of experience in accounting, finance, process improvement and strategy. He brings a mix of fundamental knowledge and real life execution to the fore. An industry veteran known for his IFRS and Ind AS knowledge and an advocate of his profession.
Recognized as a "One to Watch" by the CIO Magazine, Shiv Shankar has been a pioneer in the IT infrastructure and information security space for over two decades.
While his expertise spans unified threat management, data-feed management, firewall protection, and capacity monitoring, Shiv Shankar's most notable work is the establishment of the Disaster Recovery System of the Bombay Stock Exchange's BOLT trading platform.
With exposure to IT infrastructures of several international stock exchanges that include the likes of NASDAQ, Deutsche Borse, and OMX, Shiv Shankar has been instrumental in implementing cutting-edge technology in each of our trading businesses.
Tanmay oversees the Quantitative Research and Algorithmic Trading desk at our company. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics, a postgraduate degree in Financial Economics, the CQF, and is eligible for the CFA Charter.