Vijay Kedia is an Indian Investor and Trader born in a Marwari family in Kolkata. Kedia and his company – Kedia Securities Pvt. Ltd.,are the largest shareholder (after the promoter) in several listed companies. Kedia was a keynote speaker at IIM Ahmedabad & IIM Bangalore He has also delivered a speech at the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Vijay Kishanlal Kadia was born in a Marwadi family in the state of Calcutta (presently known as Kolkata). At the very young age of 14, he got a passion for the stock market. Somehow his father died when he was 19, to run the family he had to join family business trading and stockbroking.
He had been in the family business for 3 years afterward he left it and started his own business. Soon after entering the stock market, he got no success. After investing his few years in vain, he left Kolkata and moved to Mumbai. In 2004 and 2005 he invested in 3 companies which got him success more than 100 times.