Leadership

Prakash Gupta, CEO, CCO

With over 30 years of executive, trading and technology development experience in the securities, telecommunications and manufacturing industry, Prakash Gupta brings the management skills and expertise needed to meet Essex Advisory’ growth objectives in the new economy of the 21st century.

Previously, Prakash served as Managing Director in various middle market boutique Investment Banks. He worked at Mizuho Corporate Bank overseeing $50B North American Loan and CDO assets and prior to that as head of CDO Analytics for the CDO Trustee Group at BNY Mellon. Prakash also had been a rating analyst for Fixed Income & structured products (MBS/CLO/CDO) at Fitch Ratings and a software development lead technologist for Motorola. Prior to that, he was CEO of a manufacturing company producing non-ferrous casting in India, catering to automobile, consumer and defense industries.

Prakash has a BS degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from BIT Sindri, India; a MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and a MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Prakash holds Series 7, 24, 57, 63, 66 and 79 licenses.