Ravi started trading when he was 16. A story of him from his teenage years showcases his love for trading and the stock markets – He would use his breaks in highschool to call back home to instruct his family members to place a stock purchase order via the phone. His love and passion for trading took him to a short stint at TD Ameritrade’s flagship Thinkorswim trading platform; post which he along with his brother – Raghu, started an automated proprietary trading desk in Chicago, where they successfully turned a few thousand dollars of capital into a few million dollars in three years.

In the midst of the 2008 crash, Ravi and his brother moved to India where they envisaged a tremendous opportunity with the growth potential in the country. In 2009, Ravi co-founded the then RKSV Securities along with his brother Raghu Kumar and Shrini Viswanath. He has been instrumental in taking Upstox to being the second largest brokerage in India from its 47th position in 2017.

At the helm of Upstox, Ravi is responsible for overseeing key business decisions and driving corporate strategy. Ravi holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of California–Irvine.

Kavitha Subramanian is a co-founder at Upstox, where she is responsible for growth, strategy, finance and customer experience. Prior to Upstox, Kavitha was a private equity investor at Leapfrog Investments and Actis Investments. She was a management consultant at McKinsey and Co. and also worked at SKS Microfinance. In her microfinance experience, she worked with rural women helping them with access to capital and financial growth. Seeing how wealth directly changed their lives made her a big believer in the power of financial inclusion at scale.

With her deep understanding of customer behaviour and experience in managing key responsibilities at leading financial firms, she has been instrumental in making Upstox the fastest-growing brokerage firm in the country.

Kavitha holds B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, USA.

Just like Ravi, Shrini too shares similar aspirations and ambitions with regards to trading. When Shrini moved back to India, he recognized the tremendous growth potential in the trading industry. And motivated by this, he led technological innovations and built Upstox for both first time investors and experienced traders. Shrini heads the strategy, product and operations, and technology divisions. He has been leading the overall technology roadmap for Upstox, helping the brand grow phenomenally by integrating intuitive design with sophisticated technology to build an accessible trading application.

Shrini started his career as a Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation and moved on to Morgan Stanley as a Technology Analyst. He worked with Citibank in Chicago before moving to India to co-found Upstox. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana – Champaign, USA