NJ Mutual Fund: Meet Our Experienced AMC Directors

AMC Board

Mr. Niraj Choksi
(Chairman - AMC Board)

Mr. Niraj Ravindra Choksi is the co-founder & promoter of the NJ Group, a diversified business Group, headquartered in Surat and has more than 26 years of rich experience in the financial services industry.

NJ Group has presence in businesses like Real Estate, Asset Management, PMS, Insurance Broking and Training. The Group is primarily engaged in the financial services industry wherein it has one of the largest networks of financial advisors in India. As the visionary founder of NJ Technologies, Mr. Niraj Choksi has been involved in providing guidance to and shaping the future of the technology business.

Mr. Vineet Nayyar
(Director, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer)

Mr. Nayyar is a seasoned Asset management professional with a rich experience of over 20 years and has varied experience of working with start-ups as well as global firms. His experience spans across operations, finance, business strategy and technology related areas. Mr. Nayyar is associated with NJ Asset Management from August 2020 in the capacity of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to NJAMPL Mr. Nayyar was associated with BNP Paribas Asset Management Pvt. Ltd., Fidelity Fund Management Pvt.Ltd. and HDFC Asset Management Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Nayyar by qualification is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and Commerce Graduate from Lucknow University.

Mr. Nirmay Choksi
(Associate Director)

Mr. Choksi by qualification is BSc. in Accounting & Finance (Honours) from The University of Warwick. Mr. Choksi has also cleared all the 3 levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Programme offered by the CFA Institute, USA. Prior to joining AMC, Mr. Choksi had a short stint as a Financial Data Analyst for ETFGI, a UK based leading ETFs/ETPs data provider.

Mr. Choksi has started as a Research Analyst with the AMC. He has been instrumental in developing the SMART Beta platform (in-house proprietary model) of the Company, which is used for creation of portfolios for both Mutual Fund and Portfolio Management Service segments. Currently, he is also heading the Business Intelligence Unit (BIU), which is responsible for overall business development, generating MIS and targets for the entire sales team of the AMC.

Gen. Bikram Singh (retd.)
(Independent Director)

General Bikram Singh, the former Chief of the Indian Army (COAS) superannuated on 31 July 2014. During his military career of over 42 years, he held a number of key appointments both in India and overseas. Before taking over as the COAS, he commanded the Eastern Army that is responsible for the Chinese border and counter insurgency operations in the North-eastern States. He also commanded the prestigious Srinagar based 15 Corps that is responsible for the counter proxy war operations in the Kashmir Valley.

He has vast experience of operating in the international milieu. Besides one year at the USAWC, he served in three UN missions. Two in Central America (ONUCA & ONUSAL) and the third in Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC). In MONUC, he commanded a multinational Division comprising over 12,500 personnel from 25 countries.

An eloquent speaker, he won the public speaking award at USAWC and was Army's spokesperson during the Kargil war. He has lectured on Geopolitical & Strategic Affairs, Leadership, Management and Strategy to both domestic and international audiences. He also writes columns on above subjects in domestic magazines and newspapers.

For his distinguished and dedicated services, the President of India awarded him with the PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM and VSM. The US Government awarded him 'Legion of Merit' in 2013.

Mr. Imtiyazahmed Peerzada
(Independent Director)

Mr. Imtiyazahmed Peerzada is a former officer of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and has over 30 years of rich experience in handling administrative, financial and development activities of various government departments.

During his journey so far, Mr. Peerzada engaged himself in development, management and regulating various schools, colleges, institutions, rural villages, districts, infrastructure, textile, agriculture, irrigation, health, social welfare and has successfully transformed the life of millions of students and tribal population. He has depicted marvellous skills in handling the functions and activities of finance, budget, asset, revenue generation, HR, legal and governance for various government schemes and organisations.

Mr. G V Nageswara Rao
(Independent Director)

Mr. Rao is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Mr. Rao has over 37 years' experience in various segments of financial services and has successfully built and managed several new businesses.

Mr. Rao is the former MD & CEO of National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL). Prior to NSDL, Mr. Rao was MD & CEO of IDBI Federal Life Insurance Company Ltd. Prior to that, he was the MD & CEO of IDBI Bank, a new generation private sector bank and later became the CEO of the Commercial Banking SBU after the bank's merger with its parent institution, Industrial Development Bank of India. Before that, Mr. Rao was MD & CEO of IDBI Capital Market Services Ltd. He has been a member of the Executive Committee and Committee on Trade Related Issues of National Stock Exchange (NSE), member of the Governing Council of Derivatives and Operations and Technology Committee of Bombay Stock exchange (BSE) and Technical Advisory Committee on Debt Markets and other working groups of Reserve Bank of India (RBI).