Neerav Gala
Founder
Neerav brings in 17+ years of valuation experience across industries and geographies. Prior to setting up Artoval Advisors, he set up the valuation practice at PERCH. Prior to this, he was heading the Equity Research practice at Sutherland, a boutique research firm, wherein he has managed teams of 20+ analysts. His clienteles were elite Investment Banks, Brokerage Houses, Fund Managers and large Consulting Firms. Prior to Sutherland, he was working with Crisil, largest credit rating agency in India and subsidiary of S&P. He was responsible for their equity research space and have significantly grown the engagements. Prior to this, he was working with Morgan Stanley, one of premier US Investment Banking institution, wherein he was responsible for cross-border M&A deals. Prior to this he has done his internship with ICICI bank, one of the largest private sector banks in India wherein he was part of credit risk management team.
He is Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Registered Valuer from IBBI, FMVA from CFI and Commerce Graduate from Mumbai University, India. Additionally, he is also an active trainer for CA, CFA and other finance professional courses. He is associated with several educational institutes to provide training in the finance field.
In his short free time, he doesn’t miss an opportunity of cycling and solving complex arithmetic and logical riddles. In longer one, he travels to explore the various facets of life
Krunal Maru
Krunal has 6+ years of core valuation experience. He leads all valuation engagements and has sector agnostic, asset class agnostic and geography agnostic experience. He has a good hold over detailed and complex KPI-driven financial modelling and business valuations across all major sectors. He has a rich experience in handling valuation assignments for regulatory purposes such as fund raising, transfer of ownership, Mergers and Acquisitions, Purchase Price Allocations under various Indian laws. He has also performed Valuation of Intangibles such as Brands, Software, Contracts to assist in financial reporting purposes and has also successfully closed complex valuation engagements like ESOP and Warrants valuation. He has a good command over preparation of valuation reports, financial feasibility reports and credit rating reports.
He is a Chartered Accountant finalist from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is also FMVA certified analyst from Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Mumbai University, India.
Vaibhav Behlekar
Vaibhav brings in 9+ years of legal and merger and acquisition experience across industries and geographies. He is currently practicing corporate attorney and Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eolico Art & Info Private Limited & ArtCurve Private Limited, his family-owned companies operating in high-end art collector’s monetary valuations. His clientele is predominantly from technology, pharmaceutical and luxury real estate industry. He specialises in cross border merger and acquisitions.
He began his career as an analyst at the then leading art & auction company in London, England and subsequently became Director of American based technology startup, with responsibilities for legal department, investment and strengthening the company’s investments and assets on North American shores.
He is a law graduate of The Ferguson College of the University of Pune and enrolled as attorney on All India Bar Council of India.
He is very keen collector of vintage watches, classic motorcars, antiques and art.
Yogesh Sakunia
Yogesh brings in 14+ years of experience in Equity Research, Financial Consulting and Training. He started his career in equity research with CRISIL getting exposure to various industries and geographies. Post that he started his own Financial Consulting firm and a Training Institute. Was involved in all facets of managing the training institute from lead generation, conversion, deliver and student success. Was actively involved in training students for various professional courses (CFA, CIMA, ACCA) and skilled based courses (financial modelling). Also worked as a Head of Products (Accounting and Finance) for a training institute.
He is Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Completed a Leadership and Management course from Indian Institute of Management Kolkata, is at the Strategic Level of CIMA(U.K) and has cleared level 1 of CFA.
In his free time, he loves to cook, play and watch cricket and provide career advice to people aspiring to work in finance
Vipin Singh
Vipin is a highly creative and multi-talented Creative Designer with extensive experience of over 15 years in PowerPoint Presentations, multimedia, marketing, and print design. He has experience in working some of the largest global Investment Banks such as Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Barclays, and other fortune 500 companies. He is qualified in designing PowerPoint Pitch books, corporate presentations, Information Memorandum, Sales Pitch Presentation, etc. for Investment Bankers. He has expertise in innovation and data visualization and content visualization to represent content in the form of graphics and infographics.
Currently, working closely with Indian Prime Minister Office and Ministry of Education in designing a book to be signed by our Honorable Prime Minister (Shri. Narendra Modi) for Pan-India launch.
He holds MBA (Operations, India), BCA (India), 3DMax Trainer (Discreet, UK)