Pooja Malik, CEO & Founder Partner, Nipun Capital “From BGI to Nipun: Path to starting my Hedge Fund‪"‬ AAAIM High ELI

Our guest for today’s podcast is Pooja Malik, CEO & Founding Partner of Nipun Capital.  Pooja founded Nipun Capital in 2011 after a very successful career at Barclays Global Investors (BGI) where she was promoted quickly to become one of the youngest Managing Directors at the firm after successfully turning around BGI’s active small cap equity strategy.
 
I very much enjoyed interviewing Pooja given she has been a perenial “underdog” all her life but has tackled every conceivable obstacle and overcome them by leaps and bounds.  As the middle child and daughter of a strong Indian mother who raised her family as a single parent after the death of her father when Pooja was 12, Pooja learned a lot about grit and determination from her mother.
 
As a woman and minority, Pooja is a role model and an inspiration for all of us in the AAAIM community.  I am so happy she believed enough in herself to launch her own hedge fund almost 10 years ago and took the time to share her story with us.