Suraj Nair

Suraj NairChief Investment Officer

Suraj is a full-time equity investor who during the Lehman crisis, resigned from his lucrative job, and sold off his apartment where he lived to mobilize capital to invest in inequities. He brings with him over 15 years of wisdom in the Indian capital markets and is also the Co-founder and Executive Director of Moat Financial Services where he manages the funds and investment of a set of few chosen ones.

He lives his passion for creating a true culture and spirit of equity investing. Suraj believes that his job is to identify listed businesses that can become big and great. And to warrant that, he invests his time in getting to know great businesses and engaging in full-length conversations with their distinguished management. For him, `Equity Investing’ is all about identifying small, quality Indian listed businesses run by upright management or a first-generation promoter entrepreneur at its early stage.

He is actively involved in executing investment-related decisions at UpperCrust Wealth Pvt. Ltd.

Suraj is an Engineer by academics and started his professional life abroad working with different IT/Software companies in the financial/Mutual fund Domain. His career in Capital Markets started with a premier Portfolio management company working in the capacity of Vice-President.