Nikhil Kamath
| Nikhil Kamath | |
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| Born | |
| 🏡 Residence | Bangalore, India |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 💼 Occupation | Co-Founder & Director of Zerodha |
Nikhil Kamath is the co-founder and Director of Zerodha, an Indian financial service company offering financial products and services including retail and institutional broking, currencies and commodities trading, mutual funds, and bonds.[1][2][3]
Early Life and Education[edit]
Kamath was born to Raghuram Kamath and Revathy. Kamath’s father is an executive with Canara Bank and mother is a Veena teacher.[4][5]
Kamath dropped out of school in Class 10th in 2001, to focus on Indian National Chess Championships, which was the end of his formal education.[1]
Career[edit]
Between 2007 to 2010, Kamath served as an in charge of the Bangalore franchise of a broking firm, Way2wealth.[6]
In 2010, Nikhil Kamath, along with his brother Nithin Kamath co-founded discount brokerage outfit Zerodha. As of 2019, Zerodha is the largest retail stock broker in India by active client base, replacing ICICI Securities Ltd.[7]
Awards and Recognition[edit]
In 2016, Kamath was included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Finance list.[8][1]
In 2018, Kamath was mentioned in Forbes India’s maiden 'Tycoons Of Tomorrow' list of 22 young achievers in the fields of business, acting and sports.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "30 Under 30: Nikhil Kamath - Chess to derivatives, all in a day's work". Forbes India. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ "Taking The Bull By The Horns - Nikhil Kamat | RITZ". RITZ Magazine. 2016-09-13. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ "Nithin and Nikhil Kamath: Code Zero". Forbes India. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ Bhakta, Pratik (2018-05-18). "The lone ranger: How Zerodha held its own against India's largest stock brokerages". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ Aravind, Indulekha (2015-05-02). "Startup diaries". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ "How a school dropout compounded 50% returns for 13 years to outgrow the market". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ "Zerodha Replaces ICICI Securities As India's Largest Broker". BloombergQuint. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ "30 Under 30: The kids are all right". Forbes India. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ↑ DelhiSeptember 26, India Today Web Desk New; September 27, 2018UPDATED:; Ist, 2018 11:44. "Forbes 'Tycoons of Tomorrow': About the 22 young achievers set to change India". India Today. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
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