Dipti R. Kulkarni
Investment Professional, Private Credit · IIM Calcutta '24 (Aditya Birla Scholar) · VJTI '19
I’m an IIM Calcutta MBA with ~5 years across finance, strategy and tech. Today I’m an investment professional in private credit at Nixa Asset Management, after Global Markets at BNP Paribas, proprietary trading at Edelweiss, and running IIM Calcutta’s student investment fund. Before business school I was an engineer: building collaborative robots and warehouse automation in Tokyo, doing computer vision research in South Korea, and writing secure cloud software in India. That mix lets me look at a business through both its numbers and the technology behind it.
Professional
- Private Credit at Nixa Asset Management
- Global Markets, India Equities at BNP Paribas
- Fund Manager, Joka Advantage Fund, IIM Calcutta’s student-run fund
- Proprietary Trading at Edelweiss Global Markets (pre-placement offer)
- Cloud and Data Security R&D at Protegrity
- AI, Robotics and Industry 5.0 (cobots and warehouse automation) at Rapyuta Robotics, Tokyo and Bengaluru
- Computer Vision colour research at Changwon National University, South Korea
Academic
- MBA, IIM Calcutta (Aditya Birla Scholar, Monalisa Gupta Award)
- B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering, VJTI ‘19, one of Asia’s oldest engineering institutions
- 5th in Class XII (INSPIRE Scholar), 1st in Class X (ICSE School Topper)
Personal
Adventure lover: SSI Level I freediver, Yachting Association of India Level 1 sailor, recreational surfer and surfskater. Lifelong learner (A2 French), bibliophile and Tintin collector. I support the Akshaya Patra Foundation and OGQ. Serial quizzer, played for the institute football team, and I enjoy watching ladies’ golf.
See my achievements, my engineering background on the tech page, and the full story on my cv.