5th November 2024
Our next event will take place on the 5th November in the City of London. Speaker details are below.
Abhinav Mehra, Co-Portfolio Manager
Abhinav co-manages the Chikara Indian Subcontinent Fund which launched in November 2018. He joined the Chikara group in 2016 and was based in Singapore initially working as an analyst on the CC Asia Alpha Fund and Chikara Asian Evolution Fund.
At the start of his career, Abhinav spent four years as an equity specialist in India’s leading domestic investment bank Motilal Oswal, before joining Merrill Lynch India for 18 months covering Indian equities.
Andrew Draycott, Co-Portfolio Manager
Andy co-manages the Chikara Indian Subcontinent Fund which launched in November 2018. He has been with Chikara since 2008, initially working on the CC Asia Alpha Fund and the Chikara Asian Evolution Fund from 2010.
Prior to Chikara, Andy spent 3 years in Hong Kong with Macquarie Securities, and before that Merrill Lynch Asia, and TT investment Management on the Asian desk in 2001. Andy was appointed a member of Chikara in 2014.
Mark Burridge, Managing Partner and Fund Manager
Mark has over 30 years’ experience in the international metals and mining industry, including technical, financial, and executive roles.
Mark spent his early career as a geologist and geological engineer, predominantly with Barrick Gold Corporation. Mark then spent five years at Merrill Lynch covering the Metals and Mining Equities, where he became a ranked Analyst. Following this Mark helped launch Hatch Corporate Finance, a corporate finance boutique. Subsequent to this, he held Executive, Advisory and Board roles at mining companies before joining Baker Steel in 2017.
Mark holds a degree in Mining Geology from Imperial College London and is a CFA Charterholder.
Chris McVey, Fund Manager
Chris is the Deputy Head of Octopus Quoted Companies, joining in December 2016.
He has been a specialist within the quoted UK Smaller Company market for almost 20 years. Chris works across all the Quoted Company portfolios. He is lead manager on the FP Octopus UK Multi Cap Income Fund, and a co-manager on the FP Octopus UK Micro Cap Growth Fund, and FP Octopus UK Future Generations Fund.