• Shri Ajay Sharma has over 35 years of experience in designing organizational strategy and navigating change initiatives in IDBI Bank with varied experience across domains including Corporate Finance, Accounts, Human Resources, Training, Audit, Treasury, Syndication & Sourcing
• He has held Director positions on the Board of various listed/unlisted companies on behalf of IDBI Bank over the last 10 years
• He holds an MBA (Finance) degree and other professional qualifications, including ICWA (Inter), CAIIB, M.Com & B.Com (Hons).

• Ms. Alamelu Thatra Lakshmanachary is a passionate (re)insurance professional with more than forty (40) years of a par excellence career record in the Indian Insurance Market. High integrity, energetic leader known for ability to envision and create successful outcomes in complex situations. Diverse industry and functional expertise with a tenacious commitment to achieve orderly growth.
• She has a working experience with India’s sectoral regulators, IRDAI an insurance regulatory for Domestic Tariff Area and India’s maiden International Financial Services Centers Authority (IFSCA), a unified regulator in the IFSC; with a forte of developing of supervisory architecture, registering of financial institutions, and supervising of (re)insurance industry.

• Mr. Biranchi Narayan Sahoo is the Former Executive Director of SEBI, who has started his professional journey at Tehri Hydro Development Corporation in 1992.
• He has professional experience of more than three decades of spanning regulatory governance, policy formulation, enforcement, and institutional leadership.
• During his career at SEBI, he has played a pivotal role in designing and implementing regulatory policies for Mutual Funds, Market Intermediaries, Corporate Restructuring, Takeovers, Buybacks, Delisting, and the KYC Registry framework.
• During his tenure at SEBI, worked across all major departments, gaining comprehensive exposure to policy-making, supervision, and enforcement.
• He has also served as a member on two Supreme Court mandated committees (led by former Judges) to oversee liquidation of assets of defaulted companies and equitable distribution to investors and Introduced technology-driven systems for automated inspection and surveillance of Mutual Funds.
• He holds a bachelor’s degree in science from Utkal University and CMA from Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

• Shri Chiranjeev Kumar is a Graduate in bachelor’s in science, a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers, and a Certified Treasury Professional.
• He had joined State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer in the year 1998 and has held various important assignments in the Bank.
• He is a career banker with over 26 years of experience in wide spectrum of banking in State Bank of India. He headed Department for IT project of CRM, handled business development & investment activities of PF, Pension Funds, RRBs, Cooperative Banks as Head of Eastern Region of SBI DFHI.
• He has extensively handled different areas in bank’s treasury operations including front office operations, Treasury marketing and back-office functions in India. Mr. Kumar headed Funds Management Unit at Global Market Kolkata during his stint DGM Funds Management. Presently posted as Regional Head, SBI South Asia at SEZ GIFT CITY Gandhinagar, overseeing Gift City IBU, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Maldives Operations.

• Shri Deepak Goel is the Chief Financial Officer of BSE Limited heading finance, accounting, treasury and taxation functions. He currently serves as member of the Board of Directors of several Group Companies.
• Shri Deepak has rich and diverse experience of 20 plus years of working in different functional areas in multiple industry including Financial services, Telecom and Management Consultancy. He has previously worked as CFO & Compliance Officer of Kotak Mahindra Investments Ltd. and handled varied other roles with Kotak Bank group. He has also worked in other organizations like Edelweiss, Bharti Airtel, GE-SBI Cards JV and AF Ferguson & Co. He has been instrumental in establishing multiple functions and building up teams from the ground up.
• Shri Deepak is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of Delhi.

• Shri. Vijay Krishnamurthy is the Managing Director & CEO of the India International Exchange (IFSC) Limited.
• With rich and varied experience of over 20 years in investment research and products across asset classes, with an expertise in Fixed Income markets. He has worked closely with regulators and institutional clients for the development of capital markets in India. Prior to this assignment, he was heading the entire debt segment at BSE Limited.
• Academically sound, with qualification in PGDBA- Finance and Marketing and a Commerce Graduate from Mumbai University, has been instrumental in leading the development and implementation of Request for Quote (RFQ) platform, security level valuations, debt, and hybrid indices for the Indian markets. His active participation and contribution in several SEBI committees/sub-committees/working group has helped in shaping up some of the policies for debt markets and indices.

• Mr. V. Balasubramaniam (Bala) is the founding Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of India International Exchange IFSC Ltd. (India INX) the first International Exchange from India in GIFT City International Financial Services Centre Special Economic Zone which started its operations from January, 2017 and a subsidiary of BSE (Asia's first stock exchange). He also holds board position in the following organizations –
  • BSE Institute Limited
  • India INX Global Access IFSC Limited
  • India International Bullion Holding IFSC limited
  • India International Bullion Exchange IFSC Limited
  • India International Depository IFSC Limited
• In addition to the above, he is also a member of following committees of IFSCA:
  
  • Committee of Experts on Sustainable Finance
  • Committee of Experts on Investment Funds
  • Committee of Experts on positioning IFSC as a hub for offshore trading in INR
• Prior to this, he was the Chief Business Officer of BSE heading the business development encompassing all business segments viz. Equities, Equity Derivatives, Debt, Interest Rate Futures, Currency Derivatives, Mutual Fund Distribution platform and SME platform. In addition to the markets business, he was also responsible for the listings and data business of BSE and managing the entire trading operations and membership operations.
• He has over 31 years of experience in the Capital Markets industry and has previously worked with Reliance Group as Vice President and was also as co-founder of BSE Technologies Private Limited which was acquired by BSE.
• He was also part of the core team involved in setting up the National Stock Exchange of India. He was instrumental in creating the Capital Market segment, Nifty Index creation, setup of NSCCL as the first clearing corporation in India, NCFM certification creation and the Futures and Options segment inter-alia.
• He has served in the board of Central Depository Services (India) Limited, Futures Industry Association – Asia, Co-Chair of FICCI Capital Market Committee etc.
• He has Masters in Commerce from the University of Mumbai, Rank holder from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Diploma from Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

• Dr. Ajit Ranade a noted Economist, He received his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Brown University, USA, B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.
• Dr. Ranade is currently the Vice Chancellor at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (“GIPE”) (Deemed to be University).
• He has been a former member of the Board of Management of GIPE.
• Prior to his joining GIPE, he was the Group Executive President and Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group, a 50 billion dollar diversified multinational conglomerate.

• Shri Sudarsanam Srinivasan was born in January 1956 at Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India. He graduated in Electronics Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, (1979). Completed his Masters in Business Administration from Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia (1998).
• He joined the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1980 and allotted to Odisha Cadre. He has served in diverse field and department assignments dealing with administration, finance, policy formulation, revenue, disaster management, industries, food management, vigilance, IT, education, technology, etc with considerable laurels. He has worked in interior tribal, naxal-affected areas, in Odisha. He held several decisive positions in the State Government and Government of India before joining Department of Space. He is widely travelled and read. His service spans over three decades, from 1979 to 2016.
• He functioned in Department of Space from 2012 as Additional Secretary and Internal Financial Adviser and since then he has actively taken part in the overall development of space research particularly for societal applications. He has administered and monitored budget formulation, control and evaluation of contracts, projects, procurements and construction activities related to Space organizations. He has also been part of several review committees and has lent his wide experience and exposure in system improvements.
• Before retirement, he was Secretary to GOI & Member (Finance) of Space Commission, Atomic Energy Commission and Earth Commissions. Council member of TIFR, INO (international Neutrino Observatory), Space Commission, Atomic Energy Commission, which are top policy making bodies in the respective sectors. He has expertise in appraisal of diverse project proposals of the Department of Space, Department of Atomic Energy and Ministry of Earth Sciences from the financial angle, in exercise of delegated powers and also recommending cases to the Finance Ministry as well as Prime Minister and for Cabinet Approval. Deeply involved in scrutiny of financial procedures, system improvements, and generating synergy between project formulation, implementation and monitoring.
• He has a deep understanding of nuclear policy matters, atomic energy, space and societal applications. After retirement, he has functioned in several committees to lend his experience and guidance in resolution of various issues. He is keenly interested in chess, mathematical puzzles, literature, management issues, motivation roles, and strives to be a helpful asset in any assignment he is entrusted to handle.

Dr. Vinita S Sahay is an Academic Leader and administrator, educator, researcher with global outlook and national focus. Currently she is Director & Professor of Marketing at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bodh Gaya

Dr. Sahay has 26 years of rich and varied experience in academics, research, training and consulting both in India and abroad. She secured first class with high ranks throughout her academic career. She did her PGDM with Marketing as a major concentration area. She secured first class first with Gold Medal in M.A. in Economics and has done Ph.D. on Customer Value. She was also a Visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark for ten years (2009-2018). Dr. Sahay participated in ‘Global Colloquium on Participant- Centered Learning (GloColl)’ at the Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S. & Harvard Centre, Shanghai, China. She also participated in “Developing Leadership, Governance & Management in Higher Education” programme conducted by Leadership Foundation for Higher Education & UKIERI in Birmingham, UK.

As a Founder Director since 2018, Dr. Sahay is executing carefully prepared Strategic Plan of setting up a world class, state-of-the-art campus at IIM Bodh Gaya as a “research-based business school”. IIM Bodh Gaya has made remarkable progress under her leadership. She started two new programs, Ph.D. and Five-Year Integrated Programme in Management (BBA+MBA) and established ‘Samatvam: The Centre for Mindfulness’. She is also starting Off-Campus of IIM Bodh Gaya in Patna.

Prior to IIM Bodh Gaya, she was Professor of Marketing at IIM Raipur since 2012 holding several academic leadership positions including Chairperson (International Relations) and Chairperson (Doctoral Programmes) and membership of many committees. She was Professor & Chairperson, PGDM at IMT Ghaziabad from 2007. Her teaching, research and training interests include Marketing of Services/ Financial Services, Product and Brand Management, Retailing Management, Customer Value & CRM. She has conducted many Management Development Programmes for senior executives.

Dr. Sahay has published and presented over 70 research papers in International/National Journals/ Conferences and book chapters. She has organized three large international conferences and edited five books. As token of excellence of her work, she has received many academic awards including best paper award. Was an Editor of a Journal Special Issue. Other professional achievements include:

• Member of All India Board of Management Studies, AICTE since 2018 till date
• Member of the Committee to grant Graded Autonomy to Standalone Institutions under AICTE for 2019-20, 2020-21 & 2021-22, Member of Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) of AICTE • Chairperson for Lilavati Award 2021-22 by AICTE for Women Empowerment
• Member Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) of Central University of South Bihar in Oct 2020
• Chairperson & Member Expert Committee of UGC for visit to different Universities for
• Thesis Examiner for Ph.D. for several Central/Public Universities
• Member Board of Recruitment for IIIT Raipur

Dr. Sahay has made significant contributions on the social welfare and community development front. She is also working in the areas of school and higher education leadership and quality management. She has worked towards health care and upliftment of the weaker sections of society including scheduled caste and scheduled tribes. She is closely working with Dr. Ambedkar International Centre under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

• Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Institute Professor at IIT Madras, president, IITM Research park, IITM Incubation cell and RTBI, did his B. Tech degree from IIT Kanpur and MS and PhD from University of Maine, USA and was a faculty at Washington State University, USA for a year and half before joining as a faculty at IIT Madras in 1981. In 2017-18, he was on sabbatical from IITM and was Principal Advisor to Minister of Power, MNRE and Railways, Government of India, New Delhi.
• Dr.Jhunjhunwala is considered a pioneer in nurturing Industry-Academia interaction in India towards R&D, Innovation and Product Development. He conceived and built India’s first university affiliated business park (IIT Madras Research Park) to promote Industry- Academia R&D collaboration and IITM Incubation Cell and Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI) to drive innovation. TIE conferred him the title of Dronacharya for his contributions to the cause of entrepreneurship, as he incubated and nurtured more than 275 companies at IIT Madras with a current value of over ₹32,000 Crores.
• Dr.Jhunjhunwala has been Chairman and member of various government committees and has been on boards of several education institutions in the country. At the same time, he has been on the boards of a number of public and private companies and has driven comprehensive changes, especially in the areas of technology, in these companies. He was on the board of State Bank of India, Bharat Electronics Ltd, HTL, NRDC, IDRBT, VSNL and BSNL as well as in Tata Communications, Mahindra Electric, Sasken, Tejas Networks, TTML, Intellect and Exicom. He was on the board of BIRAC and the Chairman of Technology Advisory Group of SEBI. Also, he is currently part of RBI Innovation Hub and Chairperson of College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala and Board Member of National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI).
• Dr.Jhunjhunwala was conferred Padmashri, Shanti-Swarup Bhatnagar Award, Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, H. K. Firodia Award, Silicon India Leadership award, Millenium Medal at Indian Science Congress, UGC Hari Om Ashram Award, IETE’s Ram Lala Wadhwa Gold Medal, JC Bose fellowship, Bernard Low Humanitarian award “Dronacharya” and Lifetime Achievement Award by TIE, Chennai among many others. He is fellow of IEEE, INSA, NAS, IAS, INAE and WWRF and member of National Academy of Engineering (NAE), USA. He has also been conferred honorary Doctorate by University of Maine and Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Shri Sameer has more than 23 years of experience with a deep understanding of traded equity and debt assets classes, underlying physical commodity markets, and global Index /FX / interest rate / commodity derivatives in both exchange and OTC markets. In his present role as Chief Business Officer, he spearheads the entire BSE group’s Business Development and Marketing function which includes trading and distribution functions, as strategic ventures of the exchange. Under his leadership, BSE has seen a revival of market share in tradition business segments such as equity, equity derivatives, currency derivatives and fixed income segments. He is also instrumental in BSE’s business expansion and leadership in newer areas such as interest rate options, and commodity derivatives markets.

He was instrumental in conceptualization and setting up of India’s first International Exchange in GIFT CITY IFSC – “ INDIA International Exchange “– where he oversees the Business Development and Marketing function. In a very short time period, India INX has witnessed a single day turnover of over US$ 30 billion and a market share of over 90 percent. He is also credited to launch first of its kind outbound platform India INX GA in GIFT CITY IFSC for Indian Investors to access Global Exchanges like CME, LME, ICE etc.

Due to his rich experience and professional skillset, he is part of various committees and working groups of the Government of India, regulatory bodies like SEBI / IFSCA / Niti Aayog and Global bodies and associations. In this role he has played a key role in the conceptualizing of Gold Spot Exchange in both GIFT city and India Domestic Zone and launch of World’s first ‘Options in Goods’ in commodity segment.

In his previous assignment as Senior Vice President (PKMT & Business Development) at MCX, where he was one of the core founding team Member responsible for the setup of the commodity exchange in India. He is credited for successful launch of the flagship contracts on MCX the Gold, Silver, WTI Crude Oil and Copper contracts. The Gold Petal contract launched on April 18, 2011 was awarded as the Best Innovative contract of the year by FOW Singapore. During his tenure at MCX, he was also instrument in successfully launching and heading business functions at domestic exchanges like MCX and MCX-SX, and International Exchanges including:

• Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX - Dubai)
• Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX – Singapore)
• Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX – Bahrain)
• Global Board of Trade (GBoT – Mauritius)
• Bourse Africa (Botswana)

He began his career with K J Investors Services (I) Pvt. Ltd., an affiliate of Cargill Investors Services, Illinois, Chicago, USA as Senior Financial Analyst.

He currently serves as the member of the Board of Directors of:

• India INX Global Access IFSC Limited
• Indian Clearing Corporation Limited
• BSE E-Agricultural Markets Limited
• BSE Sammaan CSR Limited
• CDSL Commodity Repository Limited
• India International Clearing Corporation (IFSC) Limited

He is considered a credible and trusted domain expert in a diverse areas ranging from commodities trading, Index development, Hedging Strategies, Financial Product Design & launch, and physical market outreach. He is awarded the “India UAE business Ambassador of the year 2018” at Abu Dhabi for his achievements in financial markets globally. He is Science Graduate from Mumbai University and MBA in finance.