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Manoj Saha - Chairman & Managing Director
Mob. +91-9819860835 / +44 (0)7535 040 668
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Manoj holds a BA Degree (Hons) from the London Metropolitan University (Accountancy and Business Finance). He started out his professional career with International Computers Limited (ICL) in London as a software system designer, where he worked for 3 years. In 1987, he moved to NY to found electronics component distribution company in NY and successfully exited this business after building it up over 10 years. In 1999, he started the Dickenson Group – which has today become a highly respected boutique investor relations, corporate reporting and brand stewardship practice. Serving as the Managing Editor of the Dickenson Group for more than 16 years, Manoj has been the communication architect of several small to large cap corporates. His experience spans multiple areas of businesses, including BFSI, Industrial, Infrastructure, Realty, FMCG, Retail, IT and Pharmaceutical companies. Based out of London and Mumbai, he has a hands-on approach to overseeing the group’s global mandates in multiple markets spanning Europe, the Middle East and India.

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Ammeet Sabarwal - Non-Executive Director

Mob. +91-9819576873

Email: [email protected]

Biography

Ammeet, CEO of Dickenson Group’s IR practice, is a BE (IT) graduate from PVPP College of Engineering (Mumbai) and has an MBA in Finance and Capital Markets from Welingkar Institute of Management. He started his career as an Analyst at Bank of America (Asia Paci c Region) and as an Equity Research Analyst for the private investor, Kedar Mankekar. He then worked for a small investor relations boutique firm called Seagull IR, which was acquired by Dickenson in 2013. He is currently the Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director of the Dickenson Seagull IR practice, focusing on Investor Relations consultancy, advisory and execution. With a career in investor relations spanning more than 8 years, he has accumulated considerable experience of Investment Research, Investment Banking & Shareholder Communications, and Private Equity fund-raising mandates. He possesses deep knowledge across multiple sectors including Infrastructure, BFSI, Agricultural Commodities, Telecoms, Real Estate, Textiles and Consumer Related Services. He has personally handled the IR mandates for more than 15 listed companies and leads the IR consulting services team at Dickenson Seagull (IR)

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Nilesh Dalvi CFA, FRM - CEO & Associate Director
Mob. +91 9819289131
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Nilesh has been with Dickenson Seagull IR since 2013 and is currently its CEO & Associate Director. He is a graduate in Electronics Engineering from K.J. Somaiya C.O.E (Mumbai), and has completed his Masters in Management Studies (MMS-Finance) from Welingkar Institute of Management (Mumbai). He is also a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM, Global Association of Risk Professionals) and a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA, AIMR). Post his MMS completion, Nilesh started his career by working for around 3 years with Bank of America as a Credit Analyst (Corporate Credit Risk) for around 3 years, where he gained global exposure in managing the credit risk of a portfolio comprising of Fortune 500 Oil & Gas Companies in the U.S and Power Companies in Europe and the Middle East. Nilesh joined Dickenson Seagull IR as an analyst and consultant and quickly grasped the nuances of several sectors and clients of the firm, becoming a key contributor at Dickenson Seagull IR for delivering insightful IR Services and Analytics. Today, he leads the practice as its CEO with the mandate of cultivating a top-notch team of analysts and consultants, and attaining and maintaining the highest benchmarks in the IR services marketplace. He is also responsible for growing the practice with a vision to become a peer in the industry.

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Ravindra Bhandari - Associate Director
Mob. +91 9283614197
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Associate Director Ravindra is an MBA from Xavier Institute of Management (Bhubaneswar) and has completed his MS-Finance from ICFAI. He is also a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA, AIMR) and certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM, Global Association of Risk Professionals). Starting out in 2009, he has accumulated a rich experience within the capital markets, discharging wide range of functions. He initially started working as equity research analyst at the leading rating agency CRISIL, followed by a stint in Investment Banking at HSBC, and eventually in Investor Relations at Vedanta Resources. His experience includes the initiation to thematic reports on industry and sectors (Equity Research); the successful acquisition of a platinum mining company by a South African gold mining company (Investment Banking); along successfully completing a variety of fund raising and assets acquisition transactions. At Vedanta Resources, he spearheaded the strategy to increase analyst coverage; prepared the investment case for the Vedanta Group; and was part of the team that assisted in Vedanta Ltd – Cairn India merger through a $1+ billion bond issue and multiple bond buy-backs. He joined the Dickenson Seagull IR practice in March 2017 as its Associate Director, with a wide range of responsibilities. He adds considerable bandwidth to the leadership team of the firm, and strengthens its advisory and consulting aptitude.

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Mehul Mehta - President, Financial PR
Mob. +91 9820280325
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Mehul is a chartered accountant and has more than 2 decades’ experience in Corporate & Financial PR, Investor Relations and IPO communications consulting. He started his career with an independent research & consulting firm where he analysed primary and secondary markets, conducted investor perception research for large corporates and consulted them on investor communications strategy. Throughout his career, Mehul has worked on the consulting side with some of India’s largest Public Relations agencies including Adfactors PR and Genesis BM, and has guided more than 100 companies across sectors on their positioning, messaging, stakeholder outreach and capital raising. His in-depth knowledge of capital market, news value and how investors consume and react to news has helped many companies in achieving their capital market communications objectives. Some of the prominent clients that Mehul has worked for include TCS, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Marico, Blue Star, Hexaware, Sasken, and Cummins amongst other. More recently, Mehul worked closely on large IPOs such as Interglobe Aviation, Coffee Day Enterprises, Alkem Lab, Narayana Health, Equitas, Parag Milk Foods, etc. Mehul joined Dickenson in March 2017 to lead the Financial PR practice of the firm. His vast experience and strong track record strengthens Dickenson’s advisory and execution capabilities. Mehul has the mission and responsibility for building a highly senior and differentiated Financial PR practice, that attains eminent benchmarks in the industry.

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Simi Saha - Director (Creative & Corporate Communications)
Mob. +91-8080307566
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Simi has a 1st Class Graduate Degree (with distinction) from The Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology, Mumbai. While living in the USA after her marriage, she took extensive professional training in Graphic and Web Design at the Platt Institute in Los Angeles (USA). She cofounded Dickenson Intellinetics in June 1999, to focus on the corporate communication needs of mid to large cap corporate entities in India. Serving as the Design Director of the Dickenson Group for more than 16 years, Simi has been the originator of many compelling design and communication projects for small to large cap corporates. She has in-depth knowledge of multiple design software platforms and is at equal ease with both print and digital projects. Her work spans across multiple areas of businesses, including BFSI, Industrial, Infrastructure, Realty, FMCG, Retail, IT and Pharmaceutical companies. Based out of Mumbai, she has a hands-on approach to overseeing the group’s global mandates in multiple markets spanning Europe, the Middle East and India.

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Roshni Rao – Executive Editor (Corporate & Investor Communications)
Mob. +91-9920968018
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Roshni holds a B.Com Degree (Economics, Finance & Accountancy) from the Mumbai University. She started her professional career almost 20 years back as a Business Journalist, during which she worked across several business publications and wrote extensively on finance, industries and stock markets. Some of the key publications she wrote for are: Business World, Capital Market Publishers, Times of India, TickerPlant Newswire. In 2009, she moved into the Corporate & Marketing Communications space by joining the Communications team of the reputed Financial Technologies Group. For more than 6 years, she handled the Company’s overall communications, including internal, external and marketing communications. Most recently, she served with a mid-sized communications agency as Head – Strategic Content, where she contributed significantly in authoring and editing Annual Reports, Sustainability Reports and Corporate Responsibility Statements for some of the top companies in India. She joined Dickenson in April 2013 as its Executive Editor, responsible for leading the authoring and editorial team that serves an array of Corporate and Investor Communication mandates with several mid and large-cap listed companies of India.

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Vidhi Godiawala - Vice President Business Development
Mob. +91 9820586124
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Vidhi has a prolific career history starting from 2008, spanning across electronic media, banking, sales and business development. She graduated as a mass media student from Sophia College, Mumbai, with a specialisation in Journalism. Vidhi started her career as a reporter and TV host with CNBC TV18, covering the banking and financial services sector. After spending 4 years with CNBC, Vidhi joined Deutsche Bank as a Sales Manager in the Debt Capital Markets division. Here, she worked closely with the bank’s Institutional Client Group and engaged in debt sales. Subsequent to working at Deutsche Bank, Vidhi deepened her business development and marketing skills with with one of the world’s leading MBA schools, IE Business School from Madrid. There, as the Associate Director for International Business Development, she was responsible for the South Asia region and actively developed the market for the school and its various business programmes. Vidhi joined Dickenson Group in March 2016 as its Vice President for Business Development. She is responsible for Dickenson’s overall sales, marketing and brand building initiatives, and assists the firm’s Financial PR practice for its media dissemination projects. She brings a highly focused approach to client relations; to integrated communications awareness; and to connecting with market influencers.

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Kinneri Saha - Director - Dickenson Intellinetics (UK) Pvt. Ltd.
Mob. +91 8080309198 / +44 7423426086 / +1 9178312847
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Kinneri is an Economics Major graduate, with minors in Liberal Arts and Business Study from NY University (NYU). While she interned with Dickenson throughout her graduate studies, she joined Dickenson full-time in May 2016 as an Associate Consultant within the firm’s Investor Relations practice, and as an Editor for the Corporate Reporting practice. During her first nine months with the firm, she completed multiple assignments, including investor presentation preparation, Bloomberg data mining, News Release preparation, IR Analytics, Investor Targeting reports and curating the content’s team work for the Corporate Reporting and Financial PR practices of Dickenson. In February 2017, she took up the responsibility of seeding the company’s UK presence and based herself permanently in London. As a Director of the company’s UK arm, she is currently responsible for developing the firm’s business in the North Atlantic markets.

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Tarquin Edwards - Advisor & Minority Stakeholder (Dickenson Intellinetics (UK) Private Limited)
Mob. +44 (0)7879 458 364
Email: [email protected]

Biography

Tarquin has a Masters degree from Oxford University (Christ Church) in Byzantine Studies and has a BA Hons degree from the University of London (Royal Holloway) in Ancient and Medieval History. He founded Peckwater PR in 2009 following over 15 years in the City of London in the financial PR industry. He has advised on a large number of M&A and IPO transactions as well as providing crisis communications and litigation support. He has considerable experience co-ordinating and implementing media and IR campaigns for mid to smaller quoted and privately owned companies. He was a principal in the team voted financial PRs of the year in 2006. Tarquin’s earlier career at other agencies has encompassed Dewe Rogerson, Millham Communications, Holborn PR, Binns & Co and Adventis Financial PR (part of the Adventis Group plc), out of which Peckwater was borne following an MBO. Prior to entering the world of financial PR, Tarquin began his career in the Fine Art world, working for Wildenstein & Co Ltd, the international fine art dealers.