CD Group has been promoted by Navnit Chimanlal Patel & Parashar Navnit Patel. Both the promoters have more than 25 years of rich and relevant experience, dealing in Financial Markets, Commodities Markets, and other business areas.

Navnit C. Patel, holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Gujarat University. His initial experience started with Commodities Markets, where mainly he started with his family business of dealing in Agri-commodities as whole sale agents / commission brokers. Financial Management has also been his core area and it is only natural, that coming from a family which promoted a well known cooperative bank in Gujarat, he has always been keenly involved in the financial management of CD Group. Currently, he overlooks the Finances of the various businesses in C D Group, ranging from activities like banking, investment management, funds mobilization, statutory audits, internal audits, taxation issues. Also, Navnit C. Patel is currently the Chairman of The Kalupur Commercial Cooperative Bank Ltd., one of the most reputed cooperative banks in Gujarat Region.

Parashar N. Patel, holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Gujarat University. Parashar Patel has been instrumental in institutionalizing the family business of agri-commodities, professionalized the business environment and as a result, taken the family run businesses to a new scale. CD group acquired memberships of all the premier commodities exchanges of India, which helped in professional expansion of its agri commodities business.

Also, Parashar Patel has been instrumental in starting from scratch, the financial intermediaries business, by forming C. D. Integrated Services Ltd. (which is now the flagship company of CD group), and acquired memberships of NSE, BSE, as well as other major stocks and currencies exchanges of India and also became a Depository Participant of NSDL and a commodities participant, for commodities.

Parashar Patel has been actively involved in doing stock trading and arbitrage activities since 1993, and thus as an avid risk free trader himself, his passion for arbitrage and trading activities, has been the guiding light for the professional stock trading team at CD Group. Starting from geographical arbitrage (when there were different regional stock exchanges and different weekly settlement systems) to developing F&O strategies with the onset of equity derivatives markets and now with the help of automated algorithmic strategies, he has constantly evolved trading skills and strategies, commensurate with the ever changing dynamics of volatile financial markets.

Parashar Patel is actively involved in the day to day management of the group, exploring new business opportunities and new business areas, risk management, mentoring and managing the team at CD group and providing vision to face the challenges in the future.