Kamal Goel returns to Anand Rathi Group as Executive VP of IT

After a gap of over three years, IT professional Kamal Goel has returned to the Anand Rathi Shares and Stock Brokers Ltd. as Executive Vice President of Information Technology. Goel previously served as Senior Vice President IT (Group CIO) in the Anand Rathi Group from December 2014 to March 2020.   

In the new role, Goel will be handling the entire IT department of the company. Earlier, he was associated with the company from December 2014 to March 2020. In this over five months of period, Goel managed the IT infrastructure of the company that consists a network of over 750 business locations spread in more than 500 cities and towns across the country, as per his LinkedIn profile.  

Anand Rathi Group is a financial services company that offers a range of products and services in wealth management, investment banking, corporate finance and more. 

Goel, a B.Sc. in Data Science and Business Analytics from University of London, was serving as Senior Vice President — Information Technology at Hitachi from August 2022 to July 2023 before second time joining the Anand Rathi Group.  

He also holds a B.Com degree from Chaudhary Charan Singh University and did executive programme in management with specialisation in marketing and HRM from Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.  

With over 28 years of experience, Goel has been associated with various companies including India Infoline Finance Limited (IIFL), Yotta Infrastructure Solutions, Web Werks Data Centres and many others, and showed his efficiancies in key roles.  

In March, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) designated Anand Rathi Share & Stock Brokers Ltd. and 14 other brokers as Qualified Stock Brokers (QSB). The others include some big name like Zerodha Broking, 5Paisa Capital, HDFC Securities, IIFL Securities, ICICI Securities, Motilal Financial Services, Kotak Securities, and Sharekhan.  

As per Sebi, the QSBs are entities who can likely impact investors and the securities market, as well as governance and service standards because of their size and scale of operations.