Manish Gunwani currently serves as Head-Equities at Bandhan Mutual Fund since January 2023. Previously, Manish was the CIO Equities at Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management from September 2017 to January 2023, and served as Sr. Fund Manager at ICICI Prudential AMC Ltd from July 2010 to September 2017. Prior to this, Manish owned Vicisoft Technologies, a software product company, from January 2001 to June 2010, which specialized in document management solutions. Manish began their career as an Equity Research Analyst at Prime Securities from November 1996 to September 1999 and at SSKI from 1999 to 2000, focusing on the software industry. Manish holds a PGDCM in finance from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.