Govindarajan Chellappa Credit Suisse The buy side says: “I like him for both his assumptions and his results.”

Govindarajan Chellappa, 34, captures the pole position for Credit Suisse. “Insightful and informative,” according to one client, Chellappa garners plaudits for an August 2009 upgrade of Tata Motors from neutral to outperform, at 425.49 rupees, on the Mumbai-­based automaker’s strong market-share gains. The stock zoomed to Rs1,143.45, an eye-popping 168.7 percent gain that blasted past the sector by 134.8 percentage points, through mid-March 2011, when Chellappa discontinued coverage ahead of his departure from the firm. The analyst, who earned a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at ­Chennai in 1997 and a postgraduate diploma from Calcutta’s Indian Institute of Management in 1999, is “not afraid to take a stand that’s different from the consensus,” marvels one admirer. Chellappa joined Credit Suisse in 2006 from Deutsche Bank. He moved to Jefferies & Co. in June.