That's the kind of slogan you would expect to see from a Marxist.
So what's it doing on a capitalist page?

Simple: take out the sickle of yesterday    and put in the information of today   

And give this new tool to the people.

Now take another look at the final picture.
The person with the sickle has given way to the person with information.
A better tool to lead you through today's challenging world.

That's where we fit in:
Giving you the best financial information.

To use.
To profit from.
Or just to enhance your knowledge and understanding.

Because information is power.

power to the people: that is our business.

Why we are qualified to give you the power

The founders of our company and the Directors have years of experience in the two critical areas of our business: collecting information and communicating it. Effectively.

Rahul Goel is a Director of the company. Rahul is a CFA and has completed his Diploma in Management Studies as well. Rahul has been with the company since the past 9 years and has been critical in shaping up equitymaster.com's research effort and also in the launch of personalfn.com as India's leading financial planning initiative. Rahul is currently responsible for all business development activities at Quantum.

Riyaz Ladiwala is a Director of the company. Riyaz has a Diploma in Management and a Diploma in Economics. Riyaz has been with the company for 11 years and led the transformation of the company from printed material to the online world with the launch of our web site on April 22, 1996. So what you see on the site (and there is a lots more behind it that you don't see) has been painstakingly built by Riyaz and his team, byte by byte, click by click. They are still building. You will see more of it down the road.

Meanwhile, Rahul, Riyaz and their colleagues know that they are part of a revolution with one objective in mind: power to the people.

Our Board Of Directors

Ajit Dayal is the founder of the company and a Director. One of India's best known investment advisors, Ajit set the stage for the entry of FIIs in India. He founded India's first equity research company in 1990 (this company has evolved from that pedigree).

Ajit has been a broker, a research analyst (top ranked by Asia Money, Institutional Investor), a fund manager, and has written hundreds of articles on the stock markets. His articles have been published in Asian Wall Street Journal, Business India, Economic Times, Far Eastern Economic Review, and the Venture Capital Journal. He has appeared on major television and radio shows including BBC, CNBC, Doordarshan, Financial Times TV, and TV8.

Ajit has also authored 2 comic books which explain the workings of the share market and financial analysis in an easy-to-read format. Ajit has spoken at conferences in Bombay, Dubai, London, New York, and Tokyo.

Dr. S A Dave is a Director of the company. Dr. Dave brings with him three decades of experience of equity and financial markets including the regulation of these markets for the retail investor.

Dr. Dave is also the Chairman of the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy, a respected agency for monitoring the Indian economy. Other prestigious posts held by him in the past include the Chairmanship of Unit Trust of India (UTI) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He has also held the posts of Executive Director of IDBI and Deputy Director of RBI in the Economics department.

S. S. Thakur is a Director on the Board of the Company. He was the Founder Chairman of HDFC Bank Ltd and had worked for Reserve Bank of India in different capacities for around 31 years. He has extensive experience in the field of Banking and Foreign Exchange and has also held positions of Senior Adviser- UNDP, and Adviser to the Governor-Bank of Zambia. Mr. Thakur, is also Chairman, Central Depository Services (India) Limited (CDSL), a Public Nominee Director on the Governing Board of the Bombay Stock Exchange, and acts as an Adviser for Positra Special Economic Zone being developed by Gujarat Positra Port Infrastructure Limited, a joint venture of the Gujarat Government.

Rafiq Dossani is consulting professor at Stanford University and Executive Director, South Asia Initiative (also at Stanford). As a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Asia/Pacific Research Centre, his research interests include financial, technology, and energy-sector reform in India. He is currently undertaking a project on the upgrade of information technology in Indian start-ups and on the institutional phasing-in of power-sector reform in Andhra Pradesh.

He also served as a member of the working committee on Venture Capital Reform appointed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India. Rafiq earlier worked for the Robert Fleming Investment Banking group, first as CEO of its India operations and later as head of its San Francisco operations. He has also been the chairman and CEO of a stock-broking firm on the OCT Exchange in India, the deputy editor of the Business India Weekly, and a professor of finance at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a B.A. in economics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India; an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; and a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University.

Rafiq is also on the policy advisory boards of Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC and the US India Business Council, Washington DC.

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