Mr Hitesh Punjabi is a Professor, Department of Finance, K J Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai. He is MBA (Finance), B.E(Chemical) and Pursuing PhD and  Alumina of IIM Indore. He has more than 15+ years of experience in industry and management education. Earlier he was with leading corporations likes Anand Rathi Securities, Religare Securities, HSBCInvest Direct Securities, East India Securities, ARJ Securities in the field of Equity Research and with Chetana's Institute of Management & Research.

He has also conducted FDPs and MDPs on a variety of topics for reputed several organizations. He has chaired many research conferences, workshops and seminars.

Mr. Hitesh has contributed articles and has published research papers in national and international publications. He is active Member of Indian Pharmaceutical Association. He is Mentor for Atal Incubation Centre supported by NITI-AAYOG. He has been a Visiting Faculty for Finance at various institutes of Management since 2003.

His areas of expertise are of Security Analysis & Portfolio Management, Equity Research- Fundamental Analysis, Technical Analysis, Mutual Funds, Behavioural Finance and Algorithm Trading.