Core Team
Founded by professionals with over three decades of experience in private and public markets, we, Latent Advisors, develop customized, unconflicted Equity Investments solutions and Wealth Allocation solutions for institutions, family offices and high-net-worth individuals.
Bhavin Shah
Co-Founder
Seasoned professional having 24+ years of experience in managing large investment mandates across listed and unlisted equity universe
Education: PDGM- IIM, Ahmedabad and CA
Bhavin brings over 25 years diverse investment experience across investment banking, Private Equity and Public Markets portfolio management with marquee firms
He has spent over 16 years with Kotak, the latest being Co-founder of India Whizdom Fund, a long only (Cat 3 AIF) fund with a focus on listed equities. Prior to that, he was the Executive Director at Kotak Private Equity (Cat 2 AIF); led several PE transactions and represented the fund on company boards. Earlier he was with Kotak Investment banking working closely with corporates to raise growth capital from Private Equity funds.
Prior to Kotak, he set up the India business for SPI Technologies and was part of the VC fund Crimson (Asia) based out of Hong Kong.
He started his career with JM Mogan Stanley in the investment banking team.
Divyansh Gupta
Co-Founder
Seasoned professional experienced in setting-up and scaling up businesses with over 10+ years of investing experience in Indian public equities
Education: PDGM- IIM, Ahmedabad and B.E., University of Delhi
Divyansh has worked across multiple roles encompassing strategy, consulting, operations and business roles focusing on the BFSI space. He had played an instrumental role in setting up of new-age tech enabled operations for Jio Money, India Post Payments Bank and launching of digital only personal loans and mortgage business for Navi.
Divyansh has been investing in the Indian equity markets for over ten years across mid & small cap companies which are growth oriented, run by able managements who have guided the business across cycles. At Latent, Divyansh continues to fuse his business operating experience with his investments experience to find interesting investment opportunities
Nirav Udeshi
Head operations
Seasoned professional having 8+ years of experience in fund management operations across large scale and new-age PMS players.
Education: B.Com University of Mumbai, Diploma and Masters in Banking and Finance University of Mumbai
Nirav has over 8 years of experience in financial services including Banking, Mutual Fund and PMS Operations. In his career journey, he has donned varied hats with Citi Bank N.A, DSP Mutual Fund, Marcellus Investment Managers, with focus on achieving operational excellence.
