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CFC 2015: Outlook of Commodity Finance: Key Game Changers by Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia, Kotak Securities. You can watch the video here: YouTube Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia, currently working as an Associate director with Kotak Securities. Mr. Tilotia has worked with the Boston Consulting Group and was a co-founder of Park Financial Advisors. He has been an investment banker, a consultant and a personal finance advisor, even while pursuing his interests in astronomy, mythology, securities law and languages. He has been invited as a Keynote Speaker in the strategy sessions of various corporate houses in India and has also presented to senior investment teams of various global fund houses. He has completed his post-graduation from IIM-Ahmedabad and is also a Certified Financial Analyst and a graduate of St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta.

Akhilesh Tilotia speaks about how the entire online e-commerce digital industry is panning out in India. In his point of view there is a bit of dichotomy, but as India becomes more digital there are immense business opportunities beginning to open up. You can watch the video here: YouTube

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Akhilesh Tilotia, associate director with the Kotak Institutional Equities says that the business world will need to adjust to digitized world as e-commerce and data analytics is reshaping business models. You can watch the video here: Link

Colloquia, IIM-Calcutta Colloquia, the oldest club of IIM Calcutta, organized the first guest talk of the current academic session. Mr. Akhilesh Tilotia, Associate Director, Kotak Institutional Equities spoke on ‘Making of India-Game Changing Transitions’ this month. The speaker, an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, is also an author of a recent book by the same name. Mr. Tilotia leads thematic research under the Game Changer brand and co-authors market strategy reports on the Indian equity markets. He has worked with the Boston Consulting Group and was a co-founder of Park Financial Advisors. He has been an investment banker, a consultant and a personal finance advisor, even while pursuing his interests in astronomy, mythology, securities law and languages. The talk focused on the opportunities and challenges that India faces as it seeks to reap the benefits of its demographic dividend. The talk was structured on the key highlights of Mr. Tilotia’s recent book and was highly informative...

The Free Press Journal Friday, July 17, 2015, 12:48 AM IST Looking all around, it appears that Mumbai’s infrastructure has developed tremendously in the last few years. Bridges, flyovers, expressways–these are all major changes in the way the city moves. But yet, commuters travel for hours to get to their destinations. Why is that and what more should be done?, says Akhilesh Tilotia. Has infrastructure in Mumbai been a game-changer for the city? The idea set me thinking about how one judges whether the infrastructure that has been created is indeed enough, forget being labeled a game-changer. I reflected on my 12 kms daily commute from the new business district of Bandra Kurla Complex to my home on the Jogeshwari Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR) which takes about 60 and 80 minutes. This is almost the same time taken by my wife from her work place in Airoli to home, a similar distance. This translates into an average speed of between 9km/hr and 12 kms/hr, not very far from the officia...

Hindustan Times Making of India: From 1947 to 2015, the complexities of our country Is the idea that India should be a hub of manufacture beset with problems of infrastructure? Updated: Jun 06, 2015 14:29 IST In 1857, the lavishly wealthy 330-year-old subcontinental Mughal empire was conquered by British imperialists who created their own empire. The British followed the maxim that conquered land belonged to the conqueror. So over the next decades, ships laden with booty crossed the seas to transfer untold riches to Britain. The name of the conquered land was Anglicised from Persian to English as India. The latter was ruthlessly colonised. By the time the British rule ended in 1947, 'natives' were bequeathed a hapless 'tryst with destiny' (the emotional words of independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru) with an impoverished, desiccated, partitioned India whose pyrrhic victory lay in downgrading the British monarch's title fro...