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This month’s salon features an interactive discussion led by Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange). Ashish will discuss the wealth creation happening in Indian Capital Markets, capital raising avenues available to startups/smaller SMEs and new developments.
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Event Moderator: Saurav (Sunny) Arora (HBS OPM 2012)
This is a FREE event.
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About our Guest
Ashishkumar Chauhan
Ashish, a technocrat from IIT and IIM, is the MD&CEO of BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange), with market capitalization of listed companies more than US$ 3.5 trillion.
At BSE since 2009, Ashish has helped it become the world’s fastest exchange with 6 microseconds response time, completed its IPO, revived its revenues, introduced mobile stock trading to India, diversified in new areas including currency, commodities and equity derivatives, SME, start-ups, Mutual fund and insurance distribution, IPO/bond distribution, spot markets, power trading, and international exchange at GIFT city etc.
Ashish acted as the CEO of IPL cricket team Mumbai Indians in its formative years and worked as the President and CIO of Reliance group from years 2000 to 2009 in the field of IT, e-commerce, public relations, media, telecom, sports, organised retail, IPO, petrochemicals, refining, oil and gas etc.
Ashish is one of the founders of at NSE (National stock exchange) and is considered the father of modern financial derivatives in India due to his work there from 1993-2000. He is also the creator of Nifty index and was in charge of creating the first screen-based trading. He started his career as a banker with IDBI.
Ashish is a serial entrepreneur and considered amongst the foremost experts in the fields of fintech, market microstructure, transaction processing, corporate governance, finance, regulatory policies, business, technology, cricket, and Indian social issues. He has spoken at conferences organised by UN, WEF, WFE, UNCTAD, OECD, Commonwealth etc. He has been a part of the policy committees of Ministry of finance, Ministry of MSME, CBDT, RBI, SEBI etc. He also headed the South Asia Federation of Exchanges (SAFE), consisting of 20 plus exchanges.
He has won several prestigious Indian and international awards over last 3 decades including Governance Now 'Visionary Awards 2021', 'CEO of the Year 2021' by FOW Asia, Mumbai Ratna, Digital Icon of the Year, Top 50 CIOs in the world etc. He serves on the board of prestigious Indian universities including IIMs, AJNIFM, NITs, NIITs etc amongst his many social activities. He has been nominated as the Chancellor of University of Allahabad by the President of India, a nationally important and one of the oldest Universities in Asia, set up in 1887. He is a distinguished visiting faculty at Ryerson University in Toronto and Honorary Professor at Nottingham University Business School.
He has co-authored a book titled on BSE ‘A temple of wealth creation’. A book titled ‘Sthithpragya - the process of maintaining equilibrium’ has been written on his life journey.
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