Pratik is an Economist who studied at Warwick and Munich. He has published work on behavioural economics and maintains an economics blog. Pratik works in Economic Consulting. He set up the Hindu Network in 2009 at his previous workplace, a Big 4 accounting firm, and takes part in several other community activities. He has been Chairman of the CHN since November 2010. You can also follow him on Twitter here.

Aekta works as a Management Information Manager for the Cabinet Office. After graduating from King’s College London, she joined Accenture’s Management Consulting program; where she become the lead for Accenture’s Asian Network. Following Accenture, she spent two years working in Deutsche Bank’s Chief Operating Office, two years at the Home Office (IPS) and has previously completed internships at HSBC and the UK India Business Council. In her spare time, she supports the Unique Home orphanage in India.

Tarang is an Investment Professional, focusing on private equity fund investing. Prior to his current role, Tarang worked in Mergers and Acquisitions, and Valuations and Strategy Consulting. Tarang gained BSc and MSc degrees in Economics from the University of Cambridge and has subsequently become a CFA charterholder and a CAIA charterholder.

During his time at Cambridge, Tarang served on the Cambridge University Hindu Cultural Society committee with a  focus on college networks and student welfare. Tarang has worked with charitable organisations focusing on learning difficulties, teaching, and youth entrepreneurship in the UK, to working with street children in India. In his spare time, Tarang enjoys cricket, diving, philosophy and archery.

Dipen is Vice President in Sales with Jefferies, with a specialisation in Electronic and Algorithmic trading, a position he has held for the last 4 years. Prior to Jefferies he spent 5 years with Dresdner Klienwort in a number of client facing positions, latterly as a Vice President in the Digital Markets division with a focus on Sales and Business Development.  Dipen began his career in the City working for Goldman Sachs in derivatives and then moved to Investment Banking, working in Tokyo, Frankfurt and London. Dipen holds an LLB Joint Honours in Law and Japanese from the University of Cardiff and a post graduate diploma in Legal Practice.  He speaks fluent Japanese and Gujarati.  His external interests include travel, cooking, running a Theatre club and stand up comedy.

Bijal Shah is an Associate Director in the Financial Regulation space at a leading bank. She has eight years of experience in the financial services sector and is an expert in Prudential Banking Regulation. Bijal holds a BSc Honours in Mathematics from the University of Warwick and is a qualified Certified Chartered Accountant. She also holds a certificate in psychotherapy and counselling skills and actively promotes the importance of self development in achieving professional and personal goals.