About Nikunjkumar Kikani is from Surat, Gujarat. He completed his graduation in Commerce from VNSGU in April 2016. He is a qualified Chartered Accountant and had cleared all three levels of the examination in the very first attempt by May 2017. He has a formal work experience of 3 years and 7 months. He had worked with ICICI Bank Limited under Credit and Risk Department. In 2021, he joined IIM Shillong for his MBA. As part of Summer Internship Program, he interned with Investment Bank Division of Nomura Service India Private Limited. He also secured a full-time offer from Nomura (Powai) for Investment Banking Analyst role. Currently, he is in his 2nd year of MBA program at IIM Shillong. He likes to spend his free time reading, writing, cooking and travelling. He is working on an idea of a novel to highlight the rising suicide rate among school-age students. It is under publication process. He has also completed a certification course on spices – Learn to Master Spices by Ranveer Brar. Honor Awards National Finalist for Sun Tzu by Avalon Consulting (Grand finale to be held on 7th Oct) (Sep 2022) Campus Winner for HSBC IB League 2022 (Sep 2022) Semi Finalist for PwC 4.0 Challenge (Among top 33 teams out of 1600+ submissions) (Sep 2022) National Finalist for ‘Finworth’ and ‘Pitch an IPO’ organized by IIM Bangalore (Jul 2022) Best Buy-Side Pitch – Nomura India Service Private Limited (Jun 2022) National Winner & Representative of India at CFA Ethics Challenge held in Singapore (Oct 2021) National Winner for PwC 3.0 Challenge (Among Top 3 teams out of 1500+ submissions) (Sep 2021) 5 times National Winner/National Runners up for various B-School competitions organized by IIM A, IIM K and IIM S during 2021