Meet the team
Broad experience and expertise in financial services
Balaji Gopalakrishnan
Balaji Gopalakrishnan is a seasoned financial leader and a founding Partner at Panoramix Partners, a firm focused on advising banks and asset managers on commercial aspects of trading, risk management, and resource allocation. Balaji possesses deep expertise in capital markets, having previously served as Managing Director and Global Head of Trading for Prime Services at Credit Suisse. In this role, he engineered a transformative turnaround, scaling the business to a top 3 player in the industry. Most recently he was at BlackRock as the global head of Capital Markets in the Financial Management Advisory group.
Earlier in his career, Balaji was a member of the Equity Finance trading team at Goldman Sachs & Co.. He has also served on multiple financial and pharmaceutical boards. Balaji holds a post-graduate program in Financial Engineering, an Masters in Electrical Engineering , and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Shaun Miell
Shaun Miell is a Managing Partner at Panoramix Partners LLC. working closing with Exchanges and CCP's with a particular focus on Collateral and DLT/Tokenisation.
Shaun started his career at Merrill Lynch trading equities and equity derivatives and then went on to found and scale a number of market-leading businesses.
Gautam Gujral
Gautam Gujral provides executive leadership in structured finance combined with extensive legal, regulatory, and management experience. He maintains a senior-level network across the blockchain space, regulatory bodies, trade associations, hedge funds, and financial service firms.
As a co-founder of Vertalo, Gautam also has extensive practical experience in the digital asset marketplace and regulations pertaining to that market segment.
Previously, Gautam was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse. Gautam also worked for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) where he received the prestigious SEC Capital Market Award for his groundbreaking work on Regulation of Exchanges and Alternative Trading Systems. He is also the recipient of the SEC’s Chairman’s Award for Excellence.
Gautam earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from Colorado College. He is admitted to the Bar in New York, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. He is based in New Jersey.
Steven Garnett
Steve Garnett is a seasoned executive with over 30 years’ experience in financial services and specific areas of expertise in managing equities market risk as well as building disruptive financial services technology businesses.
In 2018 Steve founded Sakonnet Point Capital, a Quantitative Equity Fund Management Company. Prior to this, Steve was the Co-head of Americas Equities at Credit Suisse from 2011 to 2016. In this role Steve led the Americas Equities Division where he oversaw regional management of a business consisting of Cash Trading, Equity Derivatives, Prime Services, Equity Research and Equity Capital Markets. His key focus areas were trading and risk management. From 2009 to 2011 he was the Global Head of Cash Equities where he oversaw the Cash Trading business.
Prior to this from 1999 to 2010 he was the founder and Global Head of the Alternative Execution Products Group, a global product group within cash equities that included numerous technology intensive and quantitative trading businesses including market leading businesses in electronic trading, Program trading, Transition management, and Quantitative Trading Research. Prior to this he worked for Salomon Brothers from 1991 to 1999, where he ran their European Program Trading Group in London
Aamir Sheikh
Aamir Sheikh is a seasoned executive with a strong quantitative background and over 30 years of experience in financial markets. He has significant expertise in developing quantitative models, quantitative research, managing investments/risk, and leading and managing teams responsible for quantitative models, research, and investment and risk management.
Aamir has served in senior management roles across several organizations, large and small, with responsibility for both growing small startups and managing teams in large, established firms, including CEO and Chief Investment Officer at Echelon Capital Strategies, Managing Director Enterprise Portfolio Management Group at Bank of America, Managing Director Portfolio Analytics at Merrill Lynch, Global Head of Research at MSCI-Barra, and President of Barra Inc.
Aamir has a Ph.D. in Business Administration, specializing in Finance, from the University of California at Berkeley, with a dissertation focused on empirical topics in option pricing. He was A.B., summa cum laude, from Columbia University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Eric Jacobs
Eric Jacobs is an executive leader in the Financial Services industry with nearly 30 years of experience spanning Risk Management, Treasury, Accounting, and Operations.
Most recently, Mr. Jacobs spent 17+ years at King Street Capital Management, a $20+ billion global alternative asset-manager, as Director of Finance and Director of Risk Management. In this role, he led the development of an institutional class risk management infrastructure and process, primarily utilizing technology developed in-house with King Street’s Technology team. Prior to King Street, Mr. Jacobs spent 9 years at Goldman Sachs in the Product Controllers group focusing on commodities and managing teams focused on Equity Derivatives and Credit Derivatives.
Mr. Jacobs has a BBA from the University of Michigan with an emphasis in Accounting and Finance and an MBA from New York University with an emphasis in Economics and Finance. Additionally, he is a Certified Public Accountant.
Khosrow Dahi
Khosrow Dahi has over 25 years of experience in the design and development of various front office and risk management systems in quantitative finance.
Prior to Panoramix, Khosrow was the Chief Technology Officer at Laurion Capital Management, a multi-strategy quantitative hedge fund, from its inception to 2017. Additionally, he was the Chief Risk Officer at Laurion from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, he was a senior development executive at Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs, developing trading and risk systems for various cash and derivatives products.
Khosrow received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.S in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University. He received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1998 and his Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designation in 1999. He is based in New York City.
Dr Kosrow Dehnad
Dr. Dehnad is on the faculty of Columbia University and New York University. He has held senior positions in Structuring, Risk Management, and Trading in rates and credit at Chase Manhattan Bank, Citibank, and Samba Financial Group. He has worked at AT&T Bell Labs where he published the book Quality Control and Taguchi Method. His latest book Blockchain Investors’ Manual was published in 2020.
Dr. Dehnad received his BSc. in Mathematics with first-class honors from the University of Manchester and Doctorate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. He is based in New York.
Pankaj Kapoor
Pankaj Kapoor has over 25 years of experience in the areas of Business Process Outsourcing and Controls across Equities and specifically Prime Services and Fund Administration. He has worked at a number of Financial Institutions including Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.
Over his career Pankaj has developed strategies, built new businesses, restructured existing operations and implemented large scale organizational change initiatives (people, process and technology) across the BPO and control functions.
Pankaj is a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is based out of Mumbai, India.
Douglas Paul
Senior Advisor
Doug Paul is a Wall Street veteran with over fifty years of experience in distribution, relationship management, and capital markets. As a Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse for over twenty years, he represented the bank with both issuers and investors around the world. He worked closely with both sales, trading, and risk management to ensure that the bank optimized its risk exposure to the bank’s largest counterparties. He was head of global fixed income distribution and a member of the Global Fixed Income Operating Committee. In 2010, Doug was awarded the bank's Aeppli Prize for extraordinary leadership.
In addition to his work at Credit Suisse, he was President of Anderson Global Macro, a macro hedge fund that launched in 2014. There, he was responsible for overseeing the funds operations and risk exposure as well as fundraising.
Doug is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is an executive board member of the Foreign Policy Association where he was awarded the FPA Medal in 2017.
Doug received his BA from Franklin and Marshall College and his MBA from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.