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Abhijay Thacker

Vice President at Picus Capital

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Overview

Work Experience

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Picus Capital

  • Vice President

    2021 - Current

    Co-leading our efforts across India and Southeast Asia Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work together with promising internet ventures to build successful, global companies. Founders with exciting ideas, however early it is, please drop me a line at abhijay.thacker [@] picuscap.com

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Citi

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2020 - 2021

    1/2 analysts to join the team full time

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Citi

  • Investment Banking Summer Analyst

    2019 - 2019

    • Sole student selected from the campus for a summer internship (1/399) • Received a Pre Placement Offer (PPO) to join the team full-time

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Forum for Industry Interaction (FII), IIM Ahmedabad

  • Manager

    2018 - 2019

    1/10 members selected out of 158 applicants

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BOB Capital Markets Ltd

  • Research Associate

    2017 - 2018

    Institutional Equity Research Associate providing coverage of the Indian BFSI sector. • Formal coverage of 10 banks, charged with special coverage of the insurance sector. • Initiated, published thematic reports analysing sectoral deployment of credit. Wrote research reports on macroeconomic cycles, thematic sector updates, and earnings results. • Built valuation models to forecast operational, financial performance of coverage stocks. • Managed bespoke client requests, organised industry roundtables and interactive conference calls to develop client-management relations.

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Kotak Mahindra Asset Management Companies Limited

  • Debt Fund Management Intern

    2016 - 2016

    Analysis of Ports and Power sectors to understand forward and backward linkages. • Power sector: Fundamental analysis of 6 generation co’s; evaluated plant level FSAs, PPAs, PLF viability. • Revamped and refined the in-house bond valuation model and created a digital solution to automate data capture, processing, and dynamic generation of yield curves. • Designed a quantitative tool for debt portfolio optimisation, and performance benchmarking across all debt instruments.

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Axis Capital Ltd.

  • Institutional Equity Research Intern

    2015 - 2015

    Undertook a sector-wise analysis to understand key financial and operational drivers of FMCG, cement, and automobile sectors. • FMCG: Prepared a financial model, presented recommendations for an uncovered company • Auto: Tracked PV segment sales, identified periodicity, isolated impact of duties on sales • Cement: Strategic analysis using Porter’s 5-force framework, Value Chain Analysis (VCA)

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