Fund Manager Profile
Ketul Sakhpara
Founder of BayFort Capital
Ketul Sakhpara, CFA, Founder of BayFort Capital, brings over 26 years of cross-functional experience spanning equity research, fund management, and technology innovation. Prior to founding BayFort, he served as Head of Equity Research at Mahindra Manulife Mutual Fund and earlier managed Franklin Templeton’s Global Infrastructure Fund from New York, where he led global research across regions including Europe, South America, Australia, and China, contributing to a consistent four-star Morningstar rating for the flagship fund. He was also part of a long-short equity hedge fund at Tudor Pickering in the US, which outperformed the CS Hedge Fund Index across periods. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Samsung’s Wireless Terminals Lab in Dallas, holding multiple patents in mobile technology. He is a CFA charterholder with a Bachelor’s in Engineering from the University of Pune, an MS from Rochester Institute of Technology, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
