Gautam Kalia is a seasoned finance professional with over 15 years of experience in wealth management and investments across asset management, banking, and broking. He is currently the Senior Vice President and Head of Super Investor at Sharekhan. In the current position, Gautam is responsible for envisioning, creating, building, and managing the Mass Affluent proposition for Sharekhan by BNP Paribas.
Before this, Gautam was the Senior Vice President and Head of Investment Solutions at Sharekhan. His responsibilities included product management, sales, and P&L responsibility for third-party products across all channels. He also managed a team of 200 professionals dedicated to TPP sales and has been the company's media representative for investment solutions and personal finance. Gautam joined Sharekhan in October 2017 as the Vice President and Head of Investment Products and Priority.
Before joining Sharekhan, he worked at DSP BlackRock Mutual Fund as the VP - State Sales Head. His robust career graph also includes roles at HSBC India, where he was the VP - Investment Products from July 2013 to June 2016 and VP - Investment Advisory Unit from December 2011 to June 2013. At ING Vysya Bank (now Kotak Mahindra Bank), Gautam served as Product Manager for Investments and Advisory and as the Branch Head. He also held the position of Group Product Manager at Ahli United Bank in Bahrain and worked as a Relationship Manager for Global Private Clients at ICICI Bank in Hyderabad and Bahrain. Early in his career, Gautam was an Assistant Product Marketing Manager at Oracle in Bangalore.
Gautam is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA) Charterholder since 2014, awarded by the CAIA Association. In terms of education, he holds a Master’s in Business Administration (International Business) from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, where he graduated in 2003. He also earned a Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) in Marketing from the College of Business Studies.
