Mohnish Pabrai
Chief Executive Officer
Mohnish is the CEO of Dhandho Funds and its parent, Dhandho Holdings. Mohnish is the Portfolio Manager of the Pabrai Wagons Fund and the Managing Partner of Pabrai Investment Funds. As of September 30, 2024, Mohnish Pabrai manages approx. $1 billion in private partnership and mutual fund (the Pabrai Wagons Fund) assets through Dhandho Funds and its affiliated advisor, Dalal Street LLC. Mohnish is an ardent disciple of Warren Buffett, and closely follows his principles of value investing and capital allocation. Mohnish was the Founder/CEO of TransTech, Inc., an IT Consulting and Systems Integration company. Founded in his home in 1990, Pabrai bootstrapped the company to over $20 million in revenue when it was sold in 2000. He is the author of two books on value investing, The Dhandho Investor and Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing. The Dhandho Investor has been translated into multiple languages, including German, Mandarin, Japanese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, and Spanish. Mohnish is also the Founder and Chairman of The Dakshana Foundation (dakshana.org), a 501(c)(3) US public charity. Dakshana focuses on poverty alleviation in India by identifying brilliant but impoverished teenagers and providing them with intensive coaching to pass the entrance exams to engineering and medical universities.
Fahad Missmar
Senior VP and Senior Analyst
Fahad is the President of Dhandho Holdings and Senior Vice President and Senior Analyst at Dhandho Funds. He joined Dhandho shortly after its inception in 2014. Fahad is responsible for investment research at Dhandho Funds. He served on the board of directors of Stonetrust Insurance Company, which was wholly owned by Dhandho Holdings from 2014 to 2018. He also served on the Unsecured Creditors Committee in the reorganization of Horsehead Holdings. Fahad is the CFO/Treasurer of The Dakshana Foundation. Prior to Dhandho, Fahad completed coursework in value investing and capital markets at Harvard Business School. Prior to that, Fahad was a Senior Consultant at Monitor Group. Fahad holds a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in government with a secondary in economics from Harvard College, where he was awarded the Eric Firth Prize for the best senior thesis on the ideals of democracy.
Jaya Bharath Velicherla
VP, Quantitative Analysis
Jaya is a Vice President at Dhandho Funds. Jaya joined Dhandho in 2015. Since then, Jaya’s focus has been quantitative analysis, research, and trading at Dhandho Funds. Jaya holds a Bachelor of Technology in metallurgical and materials engineering and a minor degree in mathematics for computer science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in Chennai, India. Jaya also holds a Master of Financial Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where his research focused on testing quantitative portfolio selection methodologies