Gridstone Research is a financial information and technology company. Analysts, portfolio managers, management consultants and other company researchers use Gridstone's platform of deep company fundamental data to free themselves from the tedium of research data analytics - the low value-adding tasks of gathering fundamental data and managing spreadsheets and models - thereby lowering costs significantly and allowing analysts to focus on the higher value, insight producing tasks that investment and company research should be really about. In collaboration with partners, Gridstone also provides value-added services based on its fundamental data platform, such as earnings modeling, screening and building and maintaining comparison sheets.

In addition, Gridstone provides technology solutions in semantic-net powered data extraction, smart SEC and conference-call transcript search and text analytics.

The company was founded in 2005 and has locations in New York, California and Mumbai, India.

For more information, please visit www.gridstoneresearch.com

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P R Ganapathy P R Ganapathy
CEO

"Guns" co-founded Gridstone Research in August 2005 and serves as the Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to taking over as CEO, Guns served as Vice President-Products, where he led the development of Gridstone's product offering.

Before founding Gridstone, Guns spent 7 years at Infosys Technologies and its Business Process Outsourcing subsidiary, Progeon, in Investor Relations and Business Development roles. As the Investor Relations Officer, he was a member of the company's pioneering NASDAQ-listing team. He was also the Head of Infosys' North American Finance & Administration function. At Progeon, Guns was instrumental in conceptualizing and building the company's Enterprise Services practice, and managed several key client relationships. Under his guidance, the practice grew to account for a significant portion of Progeon's revenues and was a flagship service offering for the company. Before Infosys, Guns was a member of the Tata Administrative Service.

Guns has an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Delhi University. He lives in Manhattan.

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