AKHILESH AGARWALA

Email-ID: akhileshagarwala@gmail.com | Mobile: +91-98319 21133 | DoB: 22/06/1997

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Year Institution Examination Percentage/CGPA
2015-18 Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi B.A. (H) Economics 7.28
2014-15 The Heritage School, Kolkata ISC 98.75%
2012-13 The Heritage School, Kolkata ICSE 94.00%
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 Declared ‘All India Rank 5 ’ in the ISC board examinations as well as ‘2 in School’
 Awarded the ‘Outstanding Personality of the Year’in school for maintaining excellent conduct, academic grades, and extra curricular activities
alongside positions of responsibilities- only 1 student out of 225 receives the award each year
 Successfully completed and secured over 90% in ‘NSE’s Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM)’Modules- ‘Financial Markets’, ‘Equity Derivatives’,
Macroeconomics for Financial Markets’, ‘Technical Analysis’
 Awarded the ‘Math Wizard Trophy’ for securing full marks in Mathematics consistently from Class VI till Class XII
INTERNSHIPS
 Worked on the Capital Expenditure Module in ‘Project Parivartan- Supply Chain Management with an emphasis on Cost
Strategy Consulting Reduction’, having a spend base of around INR 150 crore and an additional green field project
 Identified scope for vendor rationalization and demand consolidation across multiple categories to negotiate rate
Intern, Accenture
contracts leading to savings of INR 2.27 crore across categories
Strategy, Mumbai
 Developed a bottom up cost model for pricing ‘Reactors and Tanks’ to conduct fact based negotiations with vendors
(June-July 2017) achieving a 28% reduction in price over initial quotes
 Conceptualised broad themes and organised a value engineering workshop for brainstorming potential cost reduction
opportunities
 Worked in the ‘Equity Derivatives& Equity Research’division and undertook Portfolio Constructionfor clients
Research Intern,  Suggested ‘pair trading strategies’ using technical analysis, Bloomberg analytics and open interest study as the tools,
ICICI Securities, returning over 5% in all the 5 pairs suggested to the clients
Mumbai  Constructeda long short portfolio (INR 100 crore) based on Brexit related fundamental analysis and suggested the same
(June-July 2016) to clients. The portfolio has returned around 86% till date and outperformed the benchmark Nifty50 by around 4.62% in
the same period. The MD, Mr. Ajay Saraf, commended this
 Learnt the basics of equity trading and started managing my own portfolio. The portfolio has grown over 64% in value
Intern, Derivatives
 Intraday (ratio) trading in the ‘Futures and Options’ segment gaining 350 bps on average on a monthly basis
Desk, Bhartia Stock
 Designed an option trading strategy using the concept of ‘theta decay & delta neutralization’ at the organization, giving
Broking, Kolkata
3.5% returns on average on a monthly basis. The organization still uses the model created to consistently make such
(April-July 2015) profits
POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY
 Flagship event for investment and finance of India’s largest undergraduate business festival
Event Head, Trading
 Conceptualized the event to test participant’s skills and knowledge in options, portfolio management as well as
Times, Business
evaluating an IPO Launch
Conclave, SRCC  Entailed participation fromover 500 teams nationally including top business schools such as IIM-B, IIM-A, IIM-C and ISB
Head of Research,  Led a team of 80+ membersto conceptualize, ideate and organize events for Episteme and Finergy, the annual offline and
Finance online fest
&Investment Cell,  Designed events such as case studies, guesstimates, valuations, budget allocationand corporate restructuring
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 Core team member of India’s 1 undergraduate student run mutual fund initiative, Unnati
SRCC
 Led the house to victory in various inter-house competitions ranging from swimming, debating, elocution, theatrics and
House Captain,
quizzing
Aryabhatta House,
 Led my house to win the coveted Sports, Discipline and Academic Trophy. This was the first time in the history of the
The Heritage School school that any house won all three trophies in a single year

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
 Spearheaded, in collaboration with my school, the inception of Surya Kiran, a free school for the underprivileged children
Social Initiatives
 Devoted over 80 hours teaching these children fundamentals of Arithmetic and English with an aim to stimulate learning
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 3 Best Adjudicator in IIT Delhi Parliamentary Debate (PD) from a pool of 64 adjudicators
 Adjudicated semi-finals in Kremlin, Jesus and Mary College PD
Debating
 Semi-finalist in Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce Fresher’s PD
 Best Speaker in Conferro, The Heritage School Conventional Debate
 Winner in Firm Wars, St. Stephens College, a case-study competition on Mergers & Acquisitions among 100+ participants
 Winner in Bidweiser,IIM-B Vista, an online case based competition on financial modelling; over 150 students took part
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 2 Runners Up in Stock 20-20, IIM-B Vista, the largest management event in India, wherein corporates also took part
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 Placed 1 in TradeCon, a financial crisis simulation event of Bullzire, the annual stock market summit organized by D-
Street SRCC
 Finalist in The Great IPO, SRCC, an event on valuations among over 100 participants
 Led my school cricket team to win 2 tournaments and emerge runners up in 3 tournaments as captain over three years
Sports
 Won over 21gold and silver medals in inter-house swimming and other track and field events during sports day
 Represented my school and college as a Disc-Jockey (DJ) and won all 4 competitions that I took part in
Music  Self-taught myself electronic music production via online tutorials and softwares and produced songs which were
appraised by internationally acclaimed artists, Zaeden and Lost Stories