Fund Manager Profile
Mr. Phanisekhar Ponangi
CFA, CAIA Co – founder & CIO, Mavenark
Phani is one of the co-founders and the Chief Investment Officer of Mavenark Asset Managers Pvt Ltd. He is a seasoned investment management professional with a strong background in finance and diverse and extensive work experience in the financial services sector, spanning 20 years. In his two-decade career, he has primarily focused on financial analysis and investment management across a wide spectrum of asset classes, from Public equities to Private Credit. Prior to co-founding Mavenark, he had stints with Klay Capital as Head of Investments (Fixed Income), Karvy Capital as Business Head & CIO - Fixed Income PMS and Angel One as an Equity Portfolio Manager.
Phani envisioned India's first Performing Credit fund in 2016 alongside India's first dedicated debt Portfolio Management Services (PMS) offering at Karvy Capital where he conceptualized and built the debt AUM to a peak of INR 865 crore. Prior to Karvy Capital, he managed multi-cap equity portfolios for HNI clients at Angel One for over 8 years. At Angel One, he practiced long-only equity investing and focused on asset allocation and security selection along with setting up the IT research practice and initiating benchmark coverage on stocks. Phani holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charter from the CFA Institute, USA and the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Charter from the CAIA Association, USA.
