Established in 1875, BSE (formerly known as Bombay Stock Exchange), is Asia's first & the Fastest Stock Exchange in world with the speed of 6 micro seconds and one of India's leading exchange groups. Over the past 143 years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it an efficient capital-raising platform. Popularly known as BSE, the bourse was established as ‘The Native Share & Stock Brokers' Association’ in 1875. In 2017 BSE become the 1st listed stock exchange of India.

Today BSE provides an efficient and transparent market for trading in equity, currencies, debt instruments, derivatives, mutual funds. BSE SME is India’s largest SME platform which has listed over 250 companies and continues to grow at a steady pace. BSE StAR MF is India’s largest online mutual fund platform which process over 27 lakh transactions per month and adds almost 2 lakh new SIPs ever month. BSE Bond, the transparent and efficient electronic book mechanism process for private placement of debt securities, is the market leader with more than Rs 2.09 lakh crore of fund raising from 530 issuances. (F.Y. 2017-2018). Keeping in line with the vision of Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’be Prime Minister of India, BSE has launched India INX, India's 1st international exchange, located at GIFT CITY IFSC in Ahmedabad.

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IMA® (Institute of Management Accountants) is one of the largest and most respected associations focused exclusively on advancing the management accounting profession. Globally, IMA supports the profession through research, the CMA® (Certified Management Accountant) and CSCA® (Certified in Strategy and Competitive Analysis) programs, continuing education, networking, and advocacy of the highest ethical business practices. Twice named Professional Body of the Year by The Accountant/International Accounting Bulletin, IMA has a global network of about 140,000 members in 150 countries and more than 350 professional and student chapters. Headquartered in Montvale, N.J., USA, IMA provides localized services through its four global regions: The Americas, Asia/Pacific, Europe and Middle East/India. For more information about IMA, please visit www.imanet.org.

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BoardPAC is an award winning, multinational, paperless Board meeting automation solutions provider, recognized for driving simple, secure, sustainable and experiential communications for Board and Executive members.

BoardPAC’s key success is attributed within the simplicity of the solution. It provides an effective way for Board Directors to access Board papers and supplementary information directly from their iPads or tablet devices for easy, effective decision making. Leading corporates such as XL Axiata, Prudential, Bumi Armada, RHB Banking Group, Hong Leong Banking Group, Bursa Malaysia (Stock Exchange of Malaysia), Affin Bank, Astro, Bombay Stock Exchange, Power Grid Corporation of India, and the Colombo Stock Exchange are just some of BoardPAC’s success stories.

With over 20,000 users globally and presence in over 20 countries including, United States, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Africa, India, and Sri Lanka, BoardPAC is the preferred choice for Board meeting automation. Visit www.boardpac.co for more information.

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Updapt is an ESG Tech Company providing SaaS products to Enterprises and Funds across industries, sizes and geographies to digitally manage their ESG data lifecycle to track, monitor and report in alignment with Global Sustainability Standards. Digital solutions of Updapt enable businesses to enhance ESG performances through analytics and benchmarking, and have accomplished engagements with key stakeholders such as Investors, Rating Agencies, Lenders, Regulators, Board, Customers, Supply Chain Partners. Updapt is formed by industry professionals having deep experience in Sustainability, Governance, Ratings and CSR domain with global firms such as Thomson Reuters, S&P Ratings, Bank of America, EY. It has medium to large sized private and publicly listed clients across various industries and multiple geographies.

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GLOBAL is one of the leading providers of Insurance & Reinsurance broking, Risk Management and Claims Services. GLOBAL was established in 1973. The company takes pride in having more than 45 years of rich legacy in the insurance and reinsurance domain. GLOBAL is a composite broker licensed by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI). We have 400+ highly skilled and experienced employees with expertise in multiple ?elds across 15 locations in India, who jointly strive to o?er customized solutions to best suit the clients’ needs. We serve clients across India and Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan & Maldives. GLOBAL operates with a philosophy of being accountable to the needs and recognition of the unique culture of the clients. Every initiative is taken with a focus on creating distinctive value for the client which is based on a deep understanding of their business and risk analysis followed by powerful execution. Global Insurance Brokers design value-driven, strategic & technology combined solutions to assist clients in advanced insurance and risk management services. Information security is the key to our business success. Our robust and comprehensive Information Security Management System addresses Cyber Security as well as Privacy & Personal Data Protection requirements. GLOBAL Insurance Brokers has now received the status of Lloyd’s registered broker in addition to the IRDAI registration in India. The company also has Membership with WBN (Worldwide Broker Network).

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Mr 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 served and is part of several policy committees of Ministry of Finance, Education, 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.

Mr. Shailesh V. Haribhakti, is a Chartered and Cost Accountant, and a Certified Internal Auditor, Financial Planner & Fraud Examiner. Over decades of hands-on professional involvement, he has worked through myriad engagements which have defined the next steps at Haribhakti Group. His passion for quality is reflected in the ISO 9000 certification for various processes of the Group's operations.

He represented India on the Standards Advisory Council (SAC) of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and also a member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He worked with PBAS, an affiliate of IFC Washington, to establish Activity-based costing and Strategic Planning Processes in Polish SMEs. He is a staunch believer in Corporate Social Responsibility, Governance and in promoting a greener environment.

He has extensive experience of over 30 years in financial and securities market, especially in Exchange and its ecosystem businesses. Prior to joining BSE, Mr. Nayan Mehta has worked with National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE), Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd. (MCX) and Credit Analysis & Research Ltd. (CARE Ratings).

Mr. Nayan Mehta is a member of Executive Management Committee and other committees of BSE Ltd. He is also a Director and a member in various committee of BSE’s subsidiaries and associate companies.

He is a member of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee for CFOs as well as CII Working Group on Taxation. He is a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of Poornima University, Jaipur Rajasthan. He is a former Senior Vice Chairman of the South Asian Federation of Exchanges. He is a member of the Board of Studies for MBA (Law) Programme of NMIMS School of Business Management.

Mr. Nayan Mehta is a Chartered Accountant and a Cost & Management Accountant by qualification.

Senior industry professional with experience of setting up a reinsurance entity in an emerging jurisdiction, as well as obtaining a reinsurance license. I also have extensive experience in Insurance Regulation, evaluating and implementing all aspects of compliance, controls, corporate governance, risk management, conduct of business, strategy, business planning and anti-money laundering in the financial services sector. A good leader who can build and work with teams from varying backgrounds and cultures. Ability to communicate at a Board level and also with the common man on technical matters. I bring over 26 years’ experience in the financial services industry with over 13 years’ experience as a Regulator in the UK (Lloyd's) and Qatar.

I am conversant with the regulatory requirements in the UK, India, Singapore, DFSA, Bahrain and QFCRA. I also have familiarity with insurance regulation in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Hong Kong.

I have a detailed understanding of the Lloyd's market and also the (re)insurance industry in the UK, Asia and Middle East.

Specialties: Compliance, Controls, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Strategy, Business planning, Regulation, Risk based Capital, AML, Conduct of Business and Regulatory Liaison.

Mr Om Prakash Bhatt is former Chairman of State Bank of India. Presently, he is on boards of Tata Steel Ltd and also Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) & TCS plus many more

He was the Chairman of the Indian Banks' Association (IBA) for the year 2010–11. Currently he is working as an Independent Non-Executive director in Board member for TATA Steel Limited.

Dr. Pradeep Panigrahi is an ESG and Sustainability professional with over 26 years of experience in reputed businesses - Murugappa Group, Tata Group, Mahindra Group and now with the L&T Group. He has a Ph. D. in Ecology with an international fellowship from IRD LEST, Universite’ Paris VI, France. He is recipient of several awards, including Mahindra Innovation Awards for innovations around Circular Economy. He was recently recognized as ‘Environment+Energy Leader 100 (2021) by environmentalleader.com. He is life member of several reputed organizations including Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). Also, he is member of several national level committees namely FICCI Circular Economy Committee, CII National Water Committee and Bombay Chamber’s Sustainability Committee. Dr. Panigrahi has participated in several national/ international conferences including COP-19 at Warsaw, Poland and as a panellist at Harvard Business School, Boston. He has also been guest faculty/ speaker at IIT-B, IIM-A, IIM-L, IIM-J, XIMB, MMA, SIIB etc. Dr. Panigrahi’s work on Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) through circular approach has been published recently by Ivy Cases, Ivy Business School, Canada and HBS, Boston. Currently Dr. Panigrahi is working as Head – Corporate Sustainability with Larsen & Toubro Ltd., Mumbai.

Satish Ramchandani is a Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Updapt – An ESG Tech Co. Prior to Updapt, he has worked in Leadership capacity in firms such as CRISIL Ratings, Edelweiss, Bank of America as Head of Business Development and CFO for 20 years.

He carries experience across Sales, Strategy, Consulting, Corporate Finance, Governance, ESG, CSR addressing key stakeholders such as Board, Audit Committee, Institutional Clients, Government, Investors. He is a Chartered Accountant and MBA by qualification.

Profession, a qualified Technologist and IT Security specialist as well. He serves as an Independent Director on the Board several Listed and PE funded organisations - Chairman and Independent Director of Sapphire Foods Ltd, Updater Services Ltd and Ganesh Grains Ltd. He has also served on the Board of Poonawala Fincorp Limited, Jammu & Kashmir Bank and MORE Retail Limited. He also serves on the CII Corporate Governance Committee and contributes on the agenda of Policy changes and improving corporate governance. He spent 25 years with Ernst & Young LLP, India’s leading professional services firm. He was responsible for leading India Largest Advisory Practice (3000 professionals) and also led the development of the Global Innovation Strategy for EY Global. He has worked very closely with the Boards and Management of several corporates such as the Tata Group, Unilever, Aditya Birla Group, Allahabad Bank, Bank of Baroda, Bombay Stock Exchange, ItzCash, NPCI, American Express, Zee Group, All Cargo Logistics, Central Board of Direct Taxes, UIDAI - Aadhaar, Govt of Maharashtra, Infosys, iFlex, Wipro and Genpact. He is highly acknowledged thought leader on corporate governance.

Accomplished ESG and Sustainable Finance leader with over two and a half decades of experience in emerging and frontier markets. Ms. Khosla is an ex-Joint General Manager – ESG & Sustainability of HDFC Ltd., She is a Climate Safe Lending Network Fellow, a Senior Executive Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School and is also a Lifetime Fellow of the Institute of Directors (IOD). She has participated in the Taxonomy working group (HDFC – Special Invitee) in the development of India’s Sustainable Taxonomy that is led by the Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs and she has also been involved with FICCI led UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD). She is a Non-Ex Director with Neo Securities.

Mr. Malay Patel is an Additional Director at HDFC Securities (2020-present) & Independent Board of Director at HDFC Bank Ltd since 2015. He provides entrepreneurial leadership, set strategic aims. and ensures financial and human resources adequacy to meet company’s objectives. He also provides framework for risk assessment and its mitigation. He also reviews the management performance independently and set the company’s values and standards to meet shareholders expectations. He is also a director at Eewa Engineering Co. Pvt. Ltd. Ahmedabad since 2006 which is India’s highly noted company in Plastic/Packaging industry with exports to more than 50 countries. Further, he is a member in various committees like Fraud Monitoring, Customer Service, Premises Committee, Stakeholder Relationship, CSR , Digital Transaction Monitoring and Share Allotment

Namrita is a senior strategic executive with CXO level success in leading organisations transform their businesses leveraging digital and technology. Currently, she is the Chief Digital Officer at Aditya Birla Group (CFI sector) An award-winning digital transformation thought leader and practioner, Namrita’s forte lies in creating competitive advantage for organisations by re-defining business models, re-imagining customer experiences, re-engineering business processes, building people capabilities and orchestrating shifts in organisation culture.

A technology evangelist, Namrita is deeply committed to building data driven organisations; fostering a data & analytics culture; defining data & AI ethics policy & governance; predicting & mitigating data privacy & security risks; enabling data based value creation & responsible innovation.

Namrita is a Certified Independent Board Director, Start Up Mentor and Life & Leadership Transformation Coach. She advises, mentors and coaches board members and CXOs on business transformation, digital and technology

Sharada Sunder is an Independent Director on corporate boards, Advisory Board member, Executive Coach, Business Consultant and Mentor. She is the founder of Saralife Consulting that guides people to their best potential.

Sharada is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of corporate experience in business leadership roles.

She is the recipient of Impact’s ‘50 Most Influential Women’ in Marketing, Media and Advertising, 2015 and Exemplary Women Leadership Achievement Award from World Women leadership Congress, 2016

She is a published author of three books and also blogs about life and leadership.

He is currently serving as Director of Global Insurance Brokers Pvt Ltd and functionally heading its Mumbai operation and National liability practice. Under his guidance Global has achieved consistent growth in business. He has advised large corporates in structuring their complex liability insurance programs. Prior to joining Global he was heading liability lines vertical at Tata AIG. He is a passionate insurance practitioner and a regular speaker at various conferences. He is an avid reader and a sports enthusiast.

He has been the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at the Breach Candy Hospital Mumbai . He served on the Board of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd., Dr. T. Rajgopal retired in December 2020 as VP, Global Medical and Occupational Health, for Unilever. Dr. Rajgopal holds postgraduate qualifications in Preventive Medicine (MD), Public Health (DPH), Occupational Medicine (DIH) and in Health and Hospital Administration (DNB). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Ireland ) and a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, (London and Ireland). In addition, he is a Fellow of the Indian Association of Occupational Health and the Indian Public Health Association. Dr. Rajgopal is an alumnus of the University of California, School of Public Health, Berkeley. (Berkeley and Kings Fund, London) and has been trained at Harvard in advanced leadership for health care. President of India awarded him the Dr B C Roy National Award (2016) in the field of Medicine (Socio-Medical Relief) Dr Rajgopal is a certified independent director having completed the accreditation program for non-executive/independent directors conducted by Hunt Partners in partnership with KPMG, Board Evaluations Limited UK, and S P Jain Business School, (3rd Accredited Certification Program for Independent / Non-Executive Directors. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (India).

Sanchita Mustauphy is the Chief Risk Officer of Tata Capital Limited, a responsibility she has taken over from November 2020.

Sanchita is a Tata Group veteran, Sanchita has over 26 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry.

Sanchita joined Tata Group into Tata Motors Finance Limited as Regional Manager – Credit in 2005. She is one of the founder members of Tata Capital and had a significant contribution setting up Commercial and SME Finance Division (CSFD) as Chief Credit Officer.

Education & Expertise : Sanchita is Cost Accountant, PGDBM from IIM Calcutta and Masters in Risk Management from NYU Stern., Sanchita’s Career before Tata Group consists of Ambuja Group, CITI Group, ICICI bank and Tata Motor Finance.

Mr. P.H. Ravikumar is commerce graduate and CIIB, AIB from London with a Senior Diploma in French. He is also a Fellow (Honorary) of The Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI) U.K., and the Chairperson of CISI's India Advisory Council. He has been the founder Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) and Invent Assets Securitisation and Reconstruction P Ltd (Invent), an RBI regulated Asset Reconstruction Company. Prior to these assignments, he has worked in senior level positions in ICICI Bank, the leading private sector bank in India and Bank of India, a premier public sector bank in India. He has been on the governing body of Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad and Federal Bank Limited. He is currently the non-executive chairperson of SKS Microfinance Ltd. and (among other companies) on the Boards of L&T Investment Management Co. Ltd., Aditya Birla Capital Advisors Ltd., Bharat Forge Limited etc

Mrs. Deena Mehta Is a Financial markets profession for about 4 decades. She is a Chartered Accountant, Master's in Management Studies (Finance) and Fellow Member of Securities and Investment Institute London. She is the promoter of Asit C Mehta group of companies. She is on the Board of Reliance Asset Reconstruction Company Limited, Fino Payments Bank Limited as Independent Director. She is on Advisory Board of Several education institutions such as SVKM (NMIMS), Indian Education Society (IES) and MIT Pune.

Mrs. Mehta has been former President of Stock Exchange Mumbai and has the honour of being the first woman Director on Board of BSE as well as first woman President. She has served on the Board of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) for 6 years during the initial formative years as Chairperson of Audit Committee and members of Risk, strategy and various other committees.

Mrs. Mehta is the promoter director of Central Depository Services Ltd. BOI Shareholding the Clearing House of BSE Ltd for several years. She is also founder member of South Asian Federation of exchanges, the association of stock exchanges of SAARC countries. She has been an invitee to International Securities Regulators Organization, and member of Index Committee and Advisory Committee on Mutual Funds of Stock Exchange, Mumbai and a member of SEBI Committees such as Review of Eligibility (CORE) norms of SEBI, Derivative Committee, Delisting Committee, Ethics Committee and Investor Education.

Mahesh Krishnamurti has extensive experience in partnering closely with senior leadership teams in some of the most dynamic companies in the world. In December 2018, he left RGP, a leading Nasdaq-listed global consultancy (“RECN”), where he had been India MD & Country head and member of the Global Leadership Team since 2007.

Mr. Krishnamurti has been appointed to the Board of YES Bank Limited as Non-Executive Director by a Government of India Notification dated March 13, 2020. He is also a Limited Partner with Arka Venture Labs, a cross-border, B2B deep-tech seed fund focused on supporting early-stage technology ventures in India and transitioning them to the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Mr. Krishnamurti is a Supervisory Board member at MyCFO, a well-established consultancy with a large client portfolio that is adept at implementing practical solutions. As an Impact Advisor, he is deeply interested in Sustainability, and Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) challenges. He is Advisor with BuzzOnEarth Media, a fast-growing online media platform with a global audience that engages the masses and actively influences them towards positive action on Sustainability Development Goals. Mr. Krishnamurti is also advising various other promising social impact and technology start-ups.

He has been Chairman, American Chamber of Commerce, India Western Region; Committee Member, Policy Research & Development, Bombay Chamber of Commerce; Charter Member TiE; BIMTECH Advisory Council Member; Rotarian.

Mr. Krishnamurti a B.Sc. (Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MBA (Finance) from NYU, Stern School of Business. He has also attended management programs at the Wharton School, and MIT, Sloan School of Management.