People at WMU

A passionate, young and client-centric team of professionals provide holistic and best-in-class investment advice to manage wealth on behalf of you.

A team that acts with maturity and responsibility in an unbiased manner by building a relationship of trust and comfort.

Jay Prakash Pai

Founder & CEO

Jay has done his B.com, CFPCM, ACS and LLB with about 25 years experience in the financial services industry. Before founding WMU, Jay was heading HSBC Private Banking for Southern India for about 5 years where he was personally managing the top 20 key Private Bank relationships of the Bank in the region. Prior to that, he was part of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management for about 7 years. Jay has also spent 5 years with Canfin Homes Limited, a housing loan subsidiary of Canara Bank and has completed Private Banking Certification from Wealth Management Institute of Singapore.

Interests

Jay is an Ironman, ultra marathoner and has done several full marathons and one ultra marathon. He completed his full ironman in August 2019 in Copenhagen. Trekking, travelling and golfing are his other hobbies

Kavitha Jayaram

Co Founder & COO

Kavitha heads operations team and ensures that her team provides high-quality support to clients on a day-to-day basis in order to ensure all functional managers meet their service goals. Kavitha comes with rich domain experience, organisational skills with proven abilities in excellent client servicing. She after her graduation, started her career with Xerox Engineering in 1995 as Executive Assistant to Managing Director and later joined HSBC in 1997 and was with HSBC for 13 years. Kavitha has worked across several functions with HSBC, starting from branch retail banking operations, Business development, Trade Services, Internal control and Compliance. She has also coordinated branch audits, internal and external inspections. For over 3 years, she assisted RMs in managing and servicing Ultra High Networth Individuals as Associate Vice President – Client Services with HSBC Private Banking Department.

Interests

Kavitha is an avid runner who has completed a few full marathons and several half marathons, she also loves to travel.

Advisory Board

Mr Dilip R Mehta

Mr Mehta has an impeccable knowledge and experience in management, he has piloted several large enterprises to success and in building an enduring brand. He has worked as CEO of several reputed Companies in diverse industries including, Telecom, Consumer Products, Retail and Entertainment. He has served as President & CEO, Entertainment Sector, RPG Group, as
Managing Director of HMV Saregama India Ltd and also as Managing Director of Spencer & Co., Ltd. He is currently Advisor / Mentor at NSR Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, IIM Bangalore. He is also involved with social action (Environment / Education, etc) and is Managing Trustee of CRAG (Citizens’ Rights Action Group). Mr Mehta is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and AEP from Kellogg School of Management, USA.

Mr S Sunderarajan

Mr Sunderarajan has over 20 years of experience in the IT and Financial services industry having served as a Senior Executive (CEO, CIO) in ANZ, Lehman Brothers in India and overseas. His experience includes setting up and running large organizations (over 1000+), execution of large financial services applications, development of financial services products. His interest areas span Technology, Finance and Management including Data Analytics, Risk Management, Banking (specifically Investment banking), Technology solutions for SMEs and Senior Management Development / Coaching. Mr Sunderarajan is a graduate from IIT Kharagpur (Bachelors) and IIT, Madras (Masters), with an M.Sc.E from the University of New Brunswick, Canada and has attended the CEO development program at Kellog School of Management. Sunder is an Adjunct Professor of IT & Finance at NMIMS, Bangalore and takes part-time courses for Executive MBA.

Team

Manish Yennu

Vice President - Client Relations

Siddharth Menon

Vice President - Client Relations

Samir Padival

Assistant Vice President - Client Relations

Balaji K R

Vice President - Client Relations

Mythri Raviraj

Research Analyst

Vidyashree B S

Head of Compliance & Operations

Jenifer

Customer Service Manager

Ashwin Nambiar

Customer Service Manager

Raghavendra H N

Client Account Manager

Reena Pereira

Customer Service Manager

Nithin Kumar

Customer Service Manager

Santosh G

Customer Service Manager

Anand Velu

Office Assistant

Suresh M

Office Assistant