Board of Directors

Mr. Neil Parag Parikh

Executive Director
Neil has been associated with the firm on a full-time basis since June 2004, having completed his Summer Training with us earlier. Although he was initially involved in the Research Department, he found his natural calling in the more action-oriented field of Institutional Equity Dealing.
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Mr. Rajeev Thakkar

Executive Director
Rajeev Thakkar is director of Parag Parikh Financial Advisory Services Pvt. Limited (PPFAS Ltd.). He possesses over 15 years of experience in various segments of the Capital Markets such as investment banking, corporate finance, securities broking and managing clients' investments in equities.
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Mr. Vikas Gandhi

Executive Director
Vikas Gandhi is an accomplished Chartered Accountant with over 23 years of experience in the Banking, Mutual Fund, Insurance, and Financial Services sectors. Served as Head – Finance & Accounts at Mirae Asset Mutual Fund and Group Companies, his key achievements included Mirae Asset group restructuring in India, implementing Ind AS and setting up units in GIFT City and Dubai. He also worked on projects involving setting up of Alternate Investment Funds and launch of various International ETFs and Fund of Funds for Mirae Asset in India.
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Mr. Suneel Gautam

Non-Executive Director
A chartered accountant by training, Suneel started his career at a multinational bank. His heart, however, lay elsewhere. In 1985, he co-founded CLEA Advertising & Marketing which went on to become India's seventh largest advertising firm by the mid-1990s with more than 400 staff across 20 locations. Clea was also the largest and most reputed financial communication and IPO specialist firm in India.
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Mr. Sahil Parikh

Non-Executive Director
Sahil is the founder of Synage Software Pvt. Ltd. (www.synage.com) - a software as a service (SaaS) company based out of Mumbai, India. Synage Software's first product, DeskAway was one of the first few on-demand services to be designed, developed and marketed from India for small businesses globally. His book, The SaaS Edge (How companies can leverage Software As A Service for competitive advantage) was published by Tata McGraw-Hill in early 2011.
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Ms. Dipti Neelakantan

Independent Director
Ms. Dipti Neelakantan has nearly four decades of professional experience in the financial and capital markets. Ms. Neelakantan joined the JM Financial group in the year 1981 as a trainee and grew in various disciplines and positions over time. She retired in mid-2019 as Group Chief Operating Officer and part of the Firm Management at JM Financial Group.
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Mr. Hitesh Gajaria

Non - Executive Director
Hitesh has over 38 years of professional experience in the fields of tax, transfer pricing and regulatory consulting. Hitesh continues as Senior Advisor at KPMG in India, where he was Partner for more than 2 decades. He led the firm’s Tax Services Practice from 2018 to 2020.