Pyxis Systems Pvt. Ltd has been promoted by Nandlal Bhatkar & Sunil Nikhar.

Nandlal Bhatkar (Johnny)
Nandlal founded Origin Risk Management, a leading derivatives consulting firm, in October 2001. Origin is a leader in providing training, front office pricing tools and consulting for the Banking/Finance sector. A few of Origin’s clients include American Express Bank, Reliance Infocomm, State Bank of India, and several other leading banks. Origin has been merged into Pyxis Systems.

Previous to this, Nandlal headed a structured derivatives business for American Express Bank in Singapore, where he was responsible for the Bank's operations in the Asia Pacific region from 1996-2000.

Nandlal holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from University of Mumbai and an MBA (PGDM) from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Sunil Nikhar (Nix)
Sunil is a founder and CEO of Ascent Computing Group, Inc USA. Ascent was acquired by Chinadotcom in 2003 (NASDAQ: CHINA). Sunil was instrumental in providing Ascent the strategic directions that enabled Ascent to get into the Inc 500 and Fast 500 lists. Ascent was also ranked in si100 (Silicon India 100) list for the year 2000, 2001 and 2002. During Sunil's leadership, Ascent consummated various financial projects and solutions including a comprehensive solution for financial derivatives.

Sunil has worked with several reputed companies such as IBM Corporation, Matsushita, Sony Corporation, TransAmerica, Glaxo Pharmaceuticals etc. in various technology and management roles.

Sunil was selected as a finalist in ‘Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award' in the year 2000 and 2002 from Southwest Connecticut and New York Hudson Valley.

Sunil holds a B.Tech and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai, India. Sunil also has an MBA (PGDM) from the IIM, Ahmedabad, India.

Both Nandlal and Sunil bring in rich and diverse sets of skills from the derivatives and information technology domain.

Team Members
Almost every member of our team has one or more advanced degree and/or other credential. The cultural diversity of our team brings with it experience from around the globe. Most of the employees have engineering / Msc Math background and are from top technology (IITs) / management institutes (IIMs). We leverage our in-depth market knowledge and experience to provide cutting-edge business solutions for our clients that helps them become globally competitive in the derivatives market.