Dhruf Mehta

Dhruf leads research at S45, where he heads the team's fundamental analysis of Indian equities. He has spent his career in equity research focused on small-cap, micro-cap and SME companies, the part of the market where careful bottom-up work matters most.

Before S45, he was Assistant Vice President – Research at Sovrenn, which covers emerging growth stories among India's smaller listed companies. Earlier, he was an equity research analyst at a family office, managing proprietary capital.

He started out in accounting firms, which gave him a grounding in reading financial statements and checking the quality of a company's earnings.