About

The team

Market practitioners and technologists building for institutional workflows.

EMAlpha brings together experience across investing, trading, market data, product, and the infrastructure that makes financial intelligence usable in real-world teams.

Sash Sarangi

CEO & Founder

Portfolio management, trading, quantitative research, and AI

Sash founded EMAlpha after a career spanning portfolio management, trading, quantitative research, and cross-functional financial technology teams. Before EMAlpha, he was a Fixed Income Portfolio Manager at Invesco, a macro trader and partner at FDO Partners, and held quantitative roles at Citigroup and Bloomberg.

Glenn Taitz

Business Development, Trade Lifecycle Agents

Former Global Head of Fixed Income Trading, Invesco

Glenn focuses on generative-AI applications across trade execution, compliance, reconciliation, and back-office workflows. He brings more than 30 years of trading, structuring, and sales experience across buy-side and sell-side firms, including Invesco, RBC Capital Markets, UBS, and Merrill Lynch.

Brad Durham

Business Development, Market Data Agents

Co-founder and former Managing Director, EPFR Global

Brad advises EMAlpha on business strategy, sales, and partnerships for market-data agents. He co-founded EPFR Global, the fund-flow and allocation tracking firm acquired by Informa plc, and continues to advise and invest in fintech and emerging-markets businesses.

Aniket Rode

V. P. of Technology

Product technology, AI systems, and platform engineering

Aniket leads EMAlpha's product and technology development, building scalable AI-powered platforms, financial intelligence tools, and reliable backend systems. He brings a product-focused approach to turning complex data and AI capabilities into practical solutions for users.

Sushil Bagate

Head of Data & Product

Finance, data engineering, NLP, and AI product systems

Sushil leads the product and data work behind EMAlpha's AI-powered financial intelligence systems. His work spans multilingual semantic search, financial knowledge systems, real-time data pipelines, embeddings, and agent experiences grounded in market context.

Atul Nepal

Head of Infrastructure

Data infrastructure, automation, and systems reliability

Atul leads EMAlpha's scalable data infrastructure and pipelines. Having grown from web scraping into data engineering, automation, cloud infrastructure, and systems reliability, he brings a practical view of the technical foundations behind data-driven products.

Advisors

Domain perspective across capital markets, technology, and emerging markets.

EMAlpha's advisors bring practical experience from the institutional environments where its agents, data, and workflows need to perform.

Sandeep Sureka

Advisor, Capital Markets

Managing Director, Head of Equity Financing & Structuring, Wells Fargo

Sandeep advises EMAlpha on capital-markets applications across equity and ETF financing, equity derivatives, structured trading, liquidity, risk, and emerging technology. He brings nearly a decade of Prime Finance experience at Citi alongside his current equity-financing and structuring role at Wells Fargo.

Timothy Kane

Advisor, Technology & Security

Head of Technology Infrastructure Security, Point72

Tim advises EMAlpha on AI, cloud infrastructure, scalable systems, and data security. His buy-side technology experience spans high-, medium-, and low-frequency trading environments, with prior leadership roles at Dorilton Capital and FDO Partners.

Beth Morrissey

Advisor, Emerging Markets

Managing Partner & Co-founder, Kleiman International Consultants

Beth brings deep experience in emerging-market research and strategic advisory across global economies and financial markets. Her work covers economic, banking, policy, institutional, legal, regulatory, and infrastructure developments for commercial and official clients worldwide.