Goyal was the first blind student at Wharton Business School in Philadelphia. Here he was selected by his peers to receive the Joseph P Wharton Award.[2] This is given to the individual who best represents the "Wharton Way of Life". He graduated Wharton in 2008, earning an MBA with honors.
"Goyal’s experience as an investor in the International Financial Markets spans nearly 15 years; his focus being Global Macro. He uses screen-reading software to check his e-mail, read research reports and look at presentations. When he needs to read graphs, which the software cannot do, he goes through the data and tries to imagine the graph in his head."[3]
In 2008, he started his international career at J P Morgan’s London office and is credited with the distinction of becoming the first visually impaired trader in the world, as well as being the first blind trader to work on Wall Street. He started on the prop trading desk at J P Morgan and spent a couple of years in their CIO office. Since then, he has managed money as a Portfolio Manager for some of the World’s leading Macro Hedge funds such as BlueCrest Capital, Citadel Investment Group and Tharo Management.
Goyal is a motivational speaker and has spoken at the London Stock Exchange, the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Sohn Charity Conference and other corporate and non profit events on his life, investing, the global economy and markets.
His involvement in charity work spans from supporting research on Vedic sciences, Ayurveda, Yoga and has raised thousands of dollars annually for charities including educating underprivileged children in India, Blindness Research and International Peace. He has served as a trustee and an advisor to many international non-profit organizations. He is also a supporter of theatre and arts.
Goyal is a big sports fan having played cricket and tennis before he lost his sight. After he moved to London he picked up blind cricket and represented the Metro London Sports Club in 2009 where his team won the UK domestic blind cricket tournament.[3][4]
Goyal has been featured multiple times in international and Indian newspapers and has also been interviewed many times on live television.
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