Swanand Kelkar

Swanand is the Managing Partner of Breakout Capital Advisors, an Emerging Market listed equities fund . Before co-founding Breakout, Swanand worked at Morgan Stanley Investment Management for 14 years overseeing a roughly $3 billion portfolio. He joined Morgan Stanley as an Analyst in 2007 and rose through the ranks to become Managing Director in 2017. Before Morgan Stanley, he has worked with Fidelity International and HSBC Asset Management Swanand received his bachelor's degree from University of Mumbai. He is a Chartered Accountant and earned his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, one of the top business schools in Asia. Swanand has been an op-ed contributor to Mint, Bloomberg, Money Control and Open Magazine writing on investing, markets and Indian macro and has also appeared as an expert on Bloomberg TV, CNBC and ET Now. In 2020 Swanand took a one-year sabbatical from his corporate job. During that year he became a qualified yoga teacher certified by World Yoga Alliance, published short stories, trained at the Gary Kirsten cricket academy in Cape Town and learnt how to cook a five-course meal. Swanand supports a grassroots initiative for women cricketers and a school for the underprivileged.