United States

Micromasters

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor's degree

Ainish Lodaya

Product Leader

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General mentorship

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

Customer Strategy : Identified opportunities to grow clients by discovering new segments of customers who invested in the stock market.

Customer Experience: Increase trust by providing tooling to help customers better understand their portfolio

Business Operations: Enhanced trading operations by optimising systems and using technology to guide decisions

•	Leadership: led a team of 30 in Risk Analytics responsible for management of the firm’s financial risk using quantitative methodologies. Led digital transformation and process reengineering for the function.
•	Business: Performed in depth study and analysis for the New Activities Committee, of activity that the firm participated in including investments in single names, participation in IPOs, new product classes and new geographies that we were looking to trade in. 
•	Team building and recruitment: Worked on the hiring committee for the division, setting up strategy for campus recruitment from universities across the country.
•	Risk management: enabled active risk management by implementing, maintaining, and testing quantitative financial models at scale for risk metrics used to describe the firm’s market exposure versus its risk appetite.

•	Product management: Founded the Innovation Lab in Bengaluru to democratize product development and facilitate cross functional ideation and collaboration.
o	Set OKRs, KPIs and developed roadmaps for various B2D products built by the division. Interacted with senior management to ensure alignment with divisional and firm vision.
o	Sign-off Central↗ improved time taken for long running global and cross team initiatives by 75%.
o	Anomaly Detection System↗ ran over 50 mathematical and financial rules on very large datasets, leading to highly accurate metrics to decision making.
o	Workflow Management System↗ Reduced technical debt by deprecating 600+ daily use spread sheets and combining them into standardized processes. This also eliminated human error

Bengaluru Co-ordinator : Daily Risk - responsible for timely production of risk metrics for daily risk management. 
Worked closely with closely with various teams along the production pipeline including technology, operations and business

Worked on risk model and review for products in credit and equity space

•	Liquidity Management: Responsible for working with the desk, treasury and triparty to execute trades to ensure that the Prime Brokerage Business has net flat market exposure at all times.
•	Technology Development– designed, set up, and maintained the Prime Brokerage Database↗ for business analysis and reporting. Achieved 100% automation in reporting workflows, and therefore 100% reduction in headcount required.
•	Business Efficiency - created Collateral Optimization Algorithm↗  which reduced balance sheet by ~$5 billion yearly.

Formulation of trading strategies using market prices and signals
Project work:
•Determine the effect of time to expiry on volatility of options.
•Code a system to return candidates for 'Pairs trading strategy'

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