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Ashish Chauhan

For other people with similar names, see Ashish Kumar (disambiguation).

Ashishkumar Chauhan is an Indian business executive and administrator who is currently the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE).[1][2] A technocrat from IIT Bombay[3] and IIM Calcutta,[3] Ashish was a founding member of NSE. Prior to joining NSE back in 2022,[3][4][5] he was the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)[6][7] for 10 years.[8][9][10] He is also the Chancellor of University of Allahabad[11][12] and serves as a member of Governing Council of one of the premier B-Schools in India - IIM Calcutta.[13] Ashish is best known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India, and is considered one of the foremost experts in financial market policies, Information technology, organized retail, telecommunications, cricket and Indian social issues.[3] Ashish has been awarded Lifetime Achievement Award by Global Custodian [14]

Ashishkumar Chauhan
Chauhan in 2012
Born
Ashishkumar Chauhan

(1968-03-16) 16 March 1968 (age 56)
India
NationalityIndian
Alma materIIT Bombay
IIM Calcutta
OccupationMD & CEO of National Stock Exchange
PredecessorVikram Limaye
SpouseSonal Chauhan
Children1
AwardsBest CEO of the Year

Early life edit

A mechanical engineer from IIT Bombay and alumnus of IIM Calcutta, Chauhan was recruited from the campus as an officer by the Industrial Development Bank of India (now IDBI Bank) in 1991.[15][16]

Career edit

National Stock Exchange of India edit

His first break came in 1993, when the Government proposed a stock exchange in the National Stock Exchange (NSE). Chauhan was a member of the core team that founded the NSE, and responsible for setting up their equities and derivatives markets from 1993 to 2000.[17] His work at NSE, involved market operations, membership, clearing and settlement, surveillance, regulations, sales, marketing, IT, premises etc. Chauhan himself was involved in creating the trading infrastructure at NSE and was instrumental in creating NSE-50 (Nifty), the most traded index in derivatives in India, NSE's certification in Financial Markets (NCFM), IPO through screen and several other innovations in the Indian capital markets.[15] In addition, he was instrumental in setting up initial Information Technology infrastructure including the first commercial satellite telecom network in India for NSE.[18] He was also involved in conceptualization of National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCCL) and initial set up of National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL). 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.[15] Due to his work in setting up modern exchange traded financial derivatives in Indian markets, he is known as the 'father of derivatives' in Indian finance. In July 2022, Chauhan was appointed as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of National Stock Exchange (NSE) [11][12]

Reliance Industries edit

In 2001, Chauhan left NSE to begin his entrepreneurship venture, financed by the Reliance group, and soon began working for Reliance Infocomm.[15][19] In 2004, Chauhan became the chief information officer (CIO) of Reliance Infocomm, and then the Reliance Group CIO in 2005.[15][19] He was also the CEO of the cricket team Mumbai Indians, owned by Reliance Industries, in its formative years.[19]

BSE edit

After leaving Reliance Industries, Chauhan joined BSE as Deputy CEO in 2009 and was appointed as CEO in 2012.[20] He is credited with reviving BSE including making it the fastest Exchange in the World with less than 6 microseconds response time,[21] introduction of Mobile Trading,[22] state of the art online real time surveillance system,[23] introduction of several market leading products. In addition, he has also been responsible for revamping of BSE, bringing in the entire spectrum of products including equity, currency, interest rate derivatives and commodities to BSE. Under his guidance, BSE has taken leadership position in setting up Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Platform, Offer for Sale (OFS), Mutual Funds Distribution through Exchanges, e-IPO etc.[24] As of October 2018, BSE commands more than 70% markets share in these segments.

Under Ashish's leadership and vision, in 2012, BSE became the first Exchange in the country to launch a dedicated SME platform for listing of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). As of October 2018, the BSE SME segment is the market leader of its kind in India with about 275 SME listed, 54 of which have grown and successfully migrated to the main Board of the Exchange.[25]

As a big believer of equity inclusion, in 2013 he pushed BSE to develop a Mutual Fund Distribution Platform - BSE StAR MF. This web-based transaction processing platform with fully automated online mutual fund collection & settlement system has become one of the most acceptable platforms in the mutual fund ecosystem.[26] As of October 2018, the BSE StAR-MF platform is India's largest digital platform to distribute Mutual Funds and commands a market share of close to 80% among exchange distributed funds. The robustness and seamlessness of BSE StAR MF along with Swiftness of Distributors query resolution through real time interaction has created an ideal ecosystem for all stakeholders in India Mutual Funds Industry.[27]

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.[28] India INX is the first exchange to introduce a single platform across multi-assets, equities, commodities, currencies and interest rate derivatives. It is also the first exchange to launch gold options

In January 2017, he successfully completed the IPO of BSE which was pending for over 10 years.[29] BSE IPO was oversubscribed 51 times, with the public offer received bids for 550.8 million shares against 10.8 million shares on offer.[30]

In October 2018, under the leadership of Ashish, BSE commenced trading in gold and silver contracts to mark its entry into the commodity derivatives segment and become India's first universal stock exchange and currently offers all assets classes, including equity, mutual funds, currency, and commodity in its portfolio.[31]

Awards and Honours edit

  • Lifetime Achievement award by Global Custodian in Singapore[14]
  • 'Visionary Awards 2021' - Financial Sector by Governance Now, India[32]
  • Chief Executive of the Year - FOW International Awards 2021, London
  • 'Mumbai Ratna Award' - Awarded by Hon'ble Governor of Maharashtra Shri Bhagat Singh Koshiyari - 2021[33]
  • Digital Icon of India Inc., 2019 - Indian Express Group
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award 2016 - IIM Calcutta[34]
  • CEO of the Year, Diamond Sabre Awards 2015, Hong Kong[35]
  • Indian Business Leader of the Year, Horasis Interlaken/Switzerland 2015[36]
  • RH Patil Award for Excellence in Financial Services, June 2015[37]
  • Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2014[38]
  • Best CEO in the Financial Markets in the Asia Pacific by the Asian Banker, 2014[39]
  • Zee Business Awards- Special contribution in Commodities and Capital Market, 2013[40]
  • TOP 50 CIOs, Information Week, US, 2009[41]

Directorships and Memberships edit

References edit

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