Citizenship India Predecessor Madhu Kannan | Name Ashish Chauhan Role Executive | |
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Alma mater IIT BombayIIM Calcutta Occupation MD & CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange Education Indian Institute of Management Calcutta | ||
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Ashishkumar Chauhan (Chauhan Ashish) is an Indian business executive and administrator. He is the current managing director and chief executive officer of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). He is a Distinguished Visiting professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
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- Bse listing md ceo ashish chauhan speaks to cnbc tv18
- Early life
- National Stock Exchange of India
- Reliance Industries
- BSE
- Awards and Honours
- References
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Early life
A mechanical engineer from IIT, Powai, and alumnus of IIM Calcutta, Chauhan was recruited from the campus by the Industrial Development Bank of India (now IDBI Bank) in 1991. His designation was that of industrial finance officer. His break came in 1993, when the Government proposed a rival stock exchange in the National Stock Exchange.
National Stock Exchange of India
His break came in 1993, when the Government proposed a rival stock exchange in the National Stock Exchange. Chauhan was a member of the core team that founded the NSE. Chauhan himself was involved in creating the trading infrastructure at NSE. He looked at NSE’s risk management system along with two others. The team created a metric to measure liquidity in stocks—called impact cost—which is now standard practice.
Reliance Industries
In 2001, Chauhan left NSE to begin his entrepreneurship venture, financed by the Reliance group. Soon, his entire team then got shifted to Reliance Infocomm. In 2004, Chauhan became the chief information officer (CIO) of Reliance Infocomm, and then the Reliance Group CIO in 2005. He was also the CEO of the cricket team Mumbai Indians, owned by Reliance Industries, in its formative years.
BSE
After leaving Reliance Industries, Chauhan joined BSE as Deputy CEO in 2009 and was appointed as CEO in 2012. He is credited with reviving BSE including making it the fastest Exchange in the World with less than 6 microseconds response time, introduction of Mobile Trading, state of the art online real time surveillance system, introduction of several market leading products. He was also instrumental in setting up India's First International Exchange "India International Exchange", which was inaugurated by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi in January 2017 at Gandhinagar, Gift City. He has successfully completed the IPO of BSE which was pending for over 10 years. BSE IPO was oversubscribed 51 times, with the public offer received bids for 550.8 million shares against 10.8 million shares on offer in January 2017.
Awards and Honours
He is the Chairperson on the Board of Governors (BoGs) of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) - Manipur and an Independent Director of the ICSI Insolvency Professionals Agency, a 100% subsidiary company of The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He is the Chairman of South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE), a forum of 28 member entities from the SAARC region and neighboring countries which aims to provide platform to share, exchange and promote the technologies, experiences for the rapid growth and development of capital markets and regional as well as global integration. He is a member of the SEBI committee on corporate governance to help improve the standards of corporate governance of listed companies in India, advisor to Asia-Pacific Investment Council and the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).