Chetan Mehra Chetan Mehra

Chetan Mehra

Head – Quantitative Trading and Machine Learning Methodology

With a global career spanning quantitative finance, trading, hedge funds and portfolio management, Chetan brings deep expertise in leveraging data‑driven models to build and manage sophisticated investment strategies.

Chetan’s experience spans leading global institutions such as Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank, where he specialized as an exotic derivatives analyst. He later served as a portfolio manager at Brewin Dolphin and UBS Laing & Cruickshank. His experience also includes co‑managing Cadwyn Capital, a global macro hedge fund, and working as a proprietary trader overseeing a systematic statistical arbitrage portfolio. Most recently, he was the head of quantitative investing at Bandhan Asset Management, managing a systematic equity portfolio in India.

At Bajaj Alts, Chetan brings a process driven, highly scientific approach to markets by leveraging data, algorithms, and predictive models to drive systematic trading and scalable investment performance.

Chetan holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton, specializing in autonomous multi‑agent systems for financial markets and an MBA in finance from the University of Leeds.