Copyright International Business Times
Financial investors are inundated with millions of data points daily, from earnings reports and supply-chain updates to algorithmic trades and geopolitical headlines. The task of processing, interpreting, and building strategies from that torrent of information has transformed investing into an exercise in noise management. Traditional research methods struggle to unify information from fragmented systems, while teams spend time on repetitive, low-value tasks just to keep up. Rohit Chaudhary has spent his career confronting that problem from the inside. After more than a decade leading investment portfolios and research teams at some of the world's most sophisticated funds, he recognized that the industry's key inefficiency—and opportunity—lies in information management, which dictates how quickly firms can act in dynamic markets. Now, he's using his experience to build a new kind of infrastructure that turns disorder into clarity. Through his latest venture, he's applying AI and machine learning techniques to simplify knowledge and workflows that are core to making sense of financial markets. His Start in the High-Stakes World of Private Equity After graduating in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Chaudhary began his career at McKinsey & Company, advising corporations across sectors on operations, risk, and performance improvement. The experience provided a cross-industry vantage point on how strategic choices and capital deployment shape enterprise performance, setting the stage for his move into private equity, where analytical precision meets execution. At Advent International, Chaudhary joined a niche team responsible for $300–500 million buyout investments across industries. He played a key role in the firm's acquisition of a major consumer business, leading commercial due diligence and helping shape the post-acquisition plan that created lasting value. He later built on that experience at Apax Partners, where he helped shape the firm's healthcare investment strategy in Asia and evaluated opportunities across sectors and deal sizes. He also contributed to public-market evaluations for Apax's listed fund, broadening his scope across asset classes. From Deals to Data: The Move to Global Investing After earning his MBA from The Wharton School with a dual focus on finance and advanced analytics, Rohit Chaudhary transitioned to global public-equity investing, building on a foundation of data-driven fundamental research. He joined Viking Global Investors in New York, a leading hedge fund managing over $50 billion, where he focused on identifying and investing in consumer equities globally. At Viking, he developed investment themes and analyzed market trends to deliver returns across the firm's portfolio. Collaborating with data scientists and engineers, he helped institutionalize research frameworks that enhanced the firm's ability to extract actionable insights more quickly and reliably. He was later recruited by Balyasny Asset Management to expand the firm's fundamental long-short strategy in Asia, based out of its Singapore office. In this role, Chaudhary played a key role in establishing a new franchise from the ground up: defining investment strategy, architecting a research and risk framework, and deploying capital across the consumer, technology, and industrial sectors. Beyond portfolio management, he also designed and implemented multiple systems and tools to ensure that decision-making remained structured and consistent. These experiences instilled in Chaudhary a belief that durable results emerge from structured thinking amid uncertainty. His approach blends market intuition with a builder's discipline—ensuring that ideas are tested, decisions are traceable, and execution remains methodical even when markets are anything but. Turning Experience into Infrastructure Over the years, Chaudhary had seen a recurring pattern across firms and asset classes: investors spent more time chasing and reconciling data than interpreting it. Research lived in silos—reports, spreadsheets, emails—making it hard to retain or reuse knowledge efficiently. To solve this, Chaudhary founded Auxage, a technology company designed to modernize how institutions work with information. Auxage is establishing a proprietary AI-native knowledge platform that unifies structured and unstructured data from a variety of sources into a unified, connected layer. The system automatically tags, links, and summarizes data across filings, market feeds, and internal notes—helping teams move from gathering information to generating insight. It also maintains a living record of an institution's research output, ensuring that when people or teams change, their knowledge endures—allowing firms to compound their intellectual capital over time. For Chaudhary, Auxage is a natural evolution of his career: applying the same rigor he once used to design risk frameworks and research systems, now aimed at the industry's broader structural challenge—making institutional knowledge continuous and compounding. Redefining Knowledge in a Market That Runs on Speed From engineering and consulting to private equity and hedge funds, every chapter of Chaudhary's journey has deepened his conviction that modern finance needs systems as adaptive as the markets themselves. With Auxage, he's bringing that conviction to life—re-architecting how institutions capture, connect, and compound their knowledge in a world where insight must travel as fast as information.
