ANKEM GROUP

ANKEM GROUP

Shaping enterprises. Sculpting legacies.

A global conglomerate of strategic advisory, international economic intelligence, finance, technological infrastructure and advocacy, counsel to a handpicked clientele across 35+ countries.

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35+Countries

in which the Group’s clients and audiences are based

40+Nationalities

counselled across the Group’s practices

10+Industries

researched, advised and built for, from capital markets to education

150K+Lives touched

through the Group’s practices, publications and initiatives

The Group

We do not merely shape businesses and minds. We sculpt legacies.

We do not simply work with the best. We make the best.

Across strategic advisory, economic research, technology and personal development, Ankem Group moves beyond the expected, blending realism with innovation to unlock the full potential of brands, institutions and individuals.

Boundaries between industries blur when real expertise leads, and that is where the Group operates best. Serving an elite clientele, from industry leaders to emerging innovators, it is known for precision-crafted strategy, enduring client loyalty and measurable transformation, bridging B2B and B2C with equal mastery.

Presence

A conglomerate without borders.

The Group is built for a world that no longer waits on geography. Its companies serve a clientele that spans continents, time zones and generations: those who build, govern, invest and lead.

Industry leaders and family enterprises

Venture capitalists and institutional investors

Diplomats, civil servants and public institutions

Emerging innovators and the students who will follow them

Drag to turn

The stone chariot at the Vittala Temple, Hampi, seat of the Raya Empire

Statue of Sri Krishnadevaraya

HeritageThe stone chariot, Vittala Temple, Hampi

Our inspiration

Inspired by the vision, leadership and values of the Raya Empire.

The Group takes its standard from a lineage of sovereigns and statesmen, and carries it into enterprise: authority exercised with responsibility, and leadership measured by what it leaves behind.

Legacy, built rather than inherited

Group companies

The House of Ankem

Four companies under one standard: rigorous, discreet and international, each with its own desks, proprietary systems and clientele. Select a company to enter it.

House I · Economic research & private markets

KIWARONotes

International economic and market intelligence, with institutional access.

The Group’s research and private-markets company: independent economic and market intelligence spanning India and the global economy, read by institutions and investors, together with the private-markets and blockchain infrastructure on which sophisticated capital depends.

Within the house

Kiwaro NotesIndependent economic research across India and global markets.
Private Markets & Blockchain InfrastructureInfrastructure for private capital and digital assets.
Research DesksCapital & markets · Policy · Industry & energy · Consumer & healthcare · Infrastructure.

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House II · Spiritual intelligence

Lakshatras

Home of Lastrological

Proprietary intelligence systems, engineered in-house and licensed worldwide.

The Group’s spiritual-intelligence company: high-precision calculation systems that compute what existing software cannot, an intelligence practice for executives and institutions, and Lastrological, the flagship consultancy with a clientele across continents.

Within the house

Proprietary Calculation SystemsAdvanced placement computation, built in-house and licensed to practitioners and platforms.
Lakshatras IntelligenceSpiritual intelligence advisory for executives and institutions.
LastrologicalThe flagship practice, serving a worldwide clientele.

Licensing inquiries Full profile

House III · Technological infrastructure

Ankem Infra

Engines, platforms and digital architecture, built to order for enterprises.

The Group’s technology company: the computational backbone that enterprises run inside their own products. Bespoke calculation engines, integration layers and licensed platforms, engineered to the standard of the Group’s proprietary systems and deployed across more than ten industries.

Within the house

Custom Calculation EnginesPrecision computation, specified and built to order.
APIs & IntegrationEngines delivered to run inside a client’s own products.
Platform LicensingThe Group’s systems, licensed to platforms and institutions.
Digital InfrastructureArchitecture, data and deployment for international companies.

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House IV · Education & advocacy

Edkem

Independent counsel for the world’s most ambitious students.

The Group’s education company, founded to end commissioned advice. Beholden to no institution, Edkem maps each student’s true potential to the universities, courses and scholarships that will serve it best, then directs the strategy, the applications and the statement of purpose that carry them there, and reports on the universities, degrees and markets that define the decade ahead.

Within the house

University & Course MappingThe right institutions and degrees for the student, not the commission.
Career Potential MappingDiscovering the field in which a student will excel and be fulfilled.
Applications & SOP StrategyStrategy, statements of purpose and interview preparation.
Scholarships & FundingAwards and funding matched to the student’s profile.
The Education DeskReporting on universities, rising degrees and the global job market.

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The Group’s philanthropy stands apart from its companies, carried by the initiative Raya for Change.The initiative

Our world

A world of interests, across 10+ industries.

The Group’s companies advise, research and build across the industries that shape economies, from the trading floor to the lecture hall, and from the ministry to the marketplace.

Strategic Advisory & Marketing

Positioning, market entry and growth for boards, founders and family enterprises.

Economic Research

Independent analysis across India and global markets.

Capital & Private Markets

Private capital, digital assets and the infrastructure beneath them.

Policy & Public Affairs

Research and counsel at the meeting point of government and enterprise.

Industry & Energy

Coverage of the sectors that power and build nations.

Consumer & Healthcare

Demand, brands and the systems that keep people well.

Technology & Infrastructure

Engines, platforms and digital architecture built to order.

Education

Independent guidance for students, and reporting on the academy.

Spiritual Intelligence

Proprietary systems and advisory, licensed worldwide.

Workplace Psychology

Organisational insight that turns trust and credibility into performance.

Social Impact & Advocacy

Equality, education and relief, through Raya for Change.

Research Publishing

Notes, desks and reporting read by institutions and investors.

Featured by & in partnership with

Hindustan Times

Business Standard

CNN

WICCI

TERI

Red Cross

Girl Up

Leadership

The Executive Board

Academicians, authors, operators and analysts, educated and seasoned across the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and India, who ensure that every strategy is backed by the latest inputs and insights.

Operations & Business Excellence

Ms. Asha Yadav

Director, Governance & Institutional Policy

More than two decades in academic administration, policy development and institutional governance. Gold Medallist in her Master’s in History and author of Bhakti Movement and Women, she brings governance, regulatory and institutional rigour to the Group.

GovernancePolicyAuthor

Operations & Business Excellence

Mr. Aneesh Kumar

Operations Director

Operations Director with mandates across Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and India. An engineer by training from the Vellore Institute of Technology and a Warwick Business School alumnus, he leads operational excellence across markets.

QatarUAEIndiaWarwick

Guest Experience & Global Hospitality

Mr. Anjan Rath

Director, Guest Experience & Hospitality

Luxury hospitality leadership honed with The St. Regis Hotels & Resorts and Four Seasons, and trained at the Swiss Hotel Management School. He brings the standard of the world’s finest houses to the Group’s client experience.

The St. RegisFour SeasonsSwitzerland

Technology, Research & Artificial Intelligence

Mr. Dhanush Reddy Manyam

Director, Research & Artificial Intelligence

Market research and AI-powered decision-making. Educated at Warwick Business School and Osmania University, he directs the research methods and intelligent systems behind the Group’s advisory.

ResearchAIWarwick

The Board’s experience

Warwick Business SchoolSwiss Hotel Management SchoolThe St. Regis Hotels & ResortsFour SeasonsVellore Institute of TechnologyOsmania UniversityQatar · United Arab Emirates · United States · India

Lakshita Raya Ankem, Global Chairperson and CEO of Ankem Group, at the Radcliffe Camera, University of Oxford

OxfordRadcliffe Camera

Built, not inherited

Lakshita Raya Ankem

Global Chairperson & CEO, Ankem GroupMarketing Director, Kiwaro

A first-generation entrepreneur, Lakshita Raya Ankem founded Ankem Group from the ground up: a self-made business empire raised on values that her family lived for generations.

From a line that served, she is the first to build.

She draws her inspiration from the Raya dynasty of the Vijayanagara Empire and its most illustrious sovereign, Sri Krishnadevaraya, and more closely from a family that chose service over enterprise. Her father and grandfather devoted their lives to public service; her grandfather, Shri Rayalu, presided over a school and over the life of his community, exacting in his standards and known for leading far beyond the call of his office.

An international business strategist working at the intersection of marketing, organisational sociology and digital enterprise, she turns trust, perceived expertise and credibility into measurable commercial performance. She speaks English, Hindi and French.

Office of the Chairpersonoffice@ankemgroup.com

Warwick Business School

Warwick Business SchoolMarketing & Strategy · Marketing and EDI Ambassador

University of Oxford

University of OxfordBusiness Optimisation: strategy, behavioural economics, performance metrics and workflow optimisation

WICCI

WICCINational President

High Commission of CanadaHonoured for promoting gender equality

Executive educationHarvardX · Wharton · Yale · SDA Bocconi

Clifford ChanceBusiness and Human Rights intern

Academic contributions ResearchGate

2023
Sustainable Development in the Himalayas: Strategic Resource Management for Solar Energy Integration in MunsiyariResearchGate
2023
Gudiya in a Grey Area: Objectification of WomenHabitus ’23
2022
The Necessity of Instilling Leadership Qualities in Underprivileged CommunitiesPithoragarh, Himalayan region · ResearchGate
2022
Interfaith Ties in Modern Societies: Trends and PatternsSouth Delhi
2021
Struggles of Working Women in the Administrative SectorNew Delhi · ResearchGate

Initiative

Raya for Change

The Group’s impact initiative, named for the Raya Empire and the leadership it stood for. It works across three domains: the teaching of India’s ancient knowledge systems, the rights and opportunities of women and children, and relief for communities in need.

“Our ancestors measured a reign by the wells it dug and the schools it opened. We measure ourselves the same way: by the blankets delivered in winter, the blood donated, the girls kept in school, and the ancient knowledge carried to one more generation.”

Join the initiative

A smiling child beside a brick wall

Statue of Sri Krishnadevaraya

Sri KrishnadevarayaThe legacy that inspires the work

1336The Raya EmpireHarihara I and Bukka Raya I establish Vijayanagara, patrons of temples, scholarship and public works.

1509Sri KrishnadevarayaThe empire’s greatest ruler: irrigation, reservoirs, administrative reform and the patronage of poets and scholars.

Shri RayaluA life of serviceEducator and pillar of his community, exacting in standard and devoted to its people far beyond the call of his office.

TodayRaya for ChangeThe same conviction, carried by the Group into education, equality and relief.

I

Ancient Knowledge Education

Teaching the Vedic, Sanskrit and classical Indian knowledge systems to the next generation, in step with the Gyan Bharatam Mission and the National Education Policy.

SDG 4NEP 2020Gyan Bharatam

II

Women, Children & Equality

Research into the lives of working women, advocacy for girls’ education, and leadership programmes for underprivileged communities, with collaborators including Girl Up and WICCI.

SDG 5SDG 10Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

III

Donation & Relief Drives

Winter relief for vulnerable families, clean-water and sanitation campaigns in villages, blood donation with the Red Cross, and solar-energy research for remote Himalayan regions.

SDG 1SDG 6SDG 7

Aligned withUN 2030 AgendaGyan Bharatam MissionNational Education Policy 2020

Collaborators

Collaborators & experience

TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute — TERI

Red Cross

Girl Up

Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Contact

Begin a conversation.

For mandates, partnerships, licensing and media, the Group responds personally, in confidence, and in the language of your choosing.

Businessinfo@ankemgroup.com Corporatecorporate@ankemgroup.com Careersoffice@ankemgroup.com Raya for Changeinfo@ankemgroup.com

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