Vikas Kalra, CFA

Leading sales efforts as both coach and individual contributor. Bringing best practices / solutions around macro risk to equity and macro investors.

Building a modern solutions for macro risk - risk models, indices, visualization layers, and others.

Work with founders, management teams, sales leaders, and sales teams to expand bottom line and TOFU. Clients: Cognaize, Noonum, Theia, EDS, Quant Insight, Anduril, Proximilar and others.

Led to team to build pipeline for custody, loans, and currency/crypto on and off ramp products. Produced $6 million pipeline through Indications of Interest.

Alkymi is a leader in decision intelligence and developer of Alkymi Data Inbox, a data extraction and process automation application for the enterprise. Sourced and closed new business as leader in go-to-market team.

Running strategy and execution for our analytics products to broker dealers. Player coach running the team.

Tasked with driving innovation in coverage to drive growth and profitability and employee engagement. Running an Innovation SWAT team to achieve the firm's aims. Key areas: Employee engagement, big data, data science, factor investing for fundamental investing processes

Managing relationships for the firm's analytics product division with Hedge Funds, focused on medium-sized to the largest hedge funds in the world. Responsible for account management, prospecting, and commercial innovation.

Managing Broker Dealer team responsible for business with firm's major broker dealer clients in the US and Canada since 2013. Analyze the competitive market landscape and lead in market strategy formation with executive leaders, product management, marketing, and other centers of influence. Managing multi-million dollar relationships across the globe. Innovated ETF model solution to cover entire ETF universe using Barra's patented multi-asset class factor modeling approach. Coordinated commercial launch of ETF model, including sales, marketing, and research aspects. Guest lecturer at NYU Stern on Risk Management – Executive MBA program

Continually in the top 5% of sales people Consulted hedge funds and broker dealers on risk control, optimizations, building equity tracking baskets, and portfolio construction using BARRA's methodology.

FX QUANT TRADING/MANAGED FUNDS ASSOCIATE Educated clients by communicating risk and return factors in portfolio selection and explaining portfolio strategies Constructed trading algorithms based on backtesting, price volatility, order flow, and technical indicators SALES MANAGER/SENIOR SALES ASSOCIATE Built and managed relationships with high net worth clients Advised clients on currency spot and option products and trading strategies for their investment objectives Authored weekly G-7 economic data releases to inform sales and trading of pending news and subsequent trading opportunities

Education and tutoring initiative to help develop student's capabilities in a large variety of academic subjects, enrichment programs, and standardized desk.

Led, educated, and mentored over 100 students in the capacity of a fiduciary to the school board and parents. Created educational solutions for learning impaired students to increase mean test scores by 10%.

· Conducted numerous market growth analyses of potential $1-$20 million markets · Developed customer-supplier integration strategy for web-based ordering with 15% regional client migration in 3 months. · Coordinated sales force restructuring effort as part of core management team to increase annual sales for an internal commercial marketing team by projected minimum of 10%. · Consulted with customers to optimization injection molding of silicone polymers into final product resulting in $300k in sales in 6 month period

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