Sriram Krishnan

Sriram has over 28 years of work experience in the Indian banking and capital markets space. He has spent about 22 years with multinational organisations, across corporate and institutional banking, asset management and securities services at various levels of seniority.

His current role with the NSE, as Chief Business Development Officer, entails establishing and managing business strategy and advocacy, product lifecycle and all business alliances and relationships. Sriram also oversees marketing & corporate communication and economic policy & research.

In his previous roles, Sriram has worked for over 21 years across HSBC, Citi and Deutsche Bank. In his immediately previous role with Deutsche Bank India, Sriram was Managing Director & Co-Head of Global Transaction Banking.

Sriram is a qualified Chartered and Cost Accountant from India.

Rajnish Kumar

A mutual fund professional with 25 years’ experience spanning across various functions such as Sales & Marketing, Product Management and Trade Management. Currently, overseeing the dealing affairs which include trade execution in equity segment, sales side management, regulatory & risk adherence, process framework & system enablement. As a functional head, his role is to ensure efficient execution, analyse market trades, apply control measures and drive various execution strategies & related enablement. A postgraduate in Economics, & MBA (Finance) has also completed a professional certification in Product Strategy from IIM Kozhikode.

Sharath Kumar R N

Sharath is the Co-Founder & CEO of 5-Swans a quant trading and consulting firm. Sharath, a veteran with over 25 years in BFSI, has co-founded and helped scale multiple algo-trading startups for proprietary trading and institutional money management.

Sharath has a Bachelor’s Degree from IIT Kharagpur, India and is a former Managing Director and CEO of Tower Research Capital India, prior to which he worked in various leadership roles across global banks (like ABN AMRO, Barclays Capital, Nomura) with a strong focus on building scalable enterprise quantitative trading systems.

Edward Mangles

Edward Mangles has helped support The FIX Trading Community’s Asia Pacific committee for over 20 years, playing a key role in promoting institutional trading standards and FIX adoption across the region, and facilitating cross-industry collaboration. In March 2009, Edward was appointed Asia Pacific Regional Director for the FIX Trading Community, and works closely with the buyside, sellside, regulator, exchange and technology provider members of the institutional trading community to support efficient trading.

Abhishek D. Mohla

Abhishek joined UBS as a Graduate in London in 2001.

Abhishek currently looks after the Electronic Trading Product and Distribution for Asia-PAC, based in Hong Kong since late 2016. In this role, Abhishek is responsible for the quantitative development of our algorithmic trading and liquidity platform, microstructure and trading cost analyses and Sales and Distribution of the product across the global client base.

Prior to Hong Kong, Abhishek was based in Singapore where he led the Electronic Product sales across South-East Asia from 2011 - 2016. Abhishek was based in Hong Kong and London prior to this in the IT division where he was Asia-Pacific Head of Client Facing Technologies for UBS Equities IT. In this role, he led the ongoing development of the regional DMA/Algo platform including launching UBS’ proprietary low-latency trading platform.

Abhishek joined UBS as an IT Developer in the firm's proprietary web-based trading product, UBS Equity Trader before moving to Hong Kong in Oct 2007.

Abhishek holds a Masters of Engineering degree from the University of York, UK. He is a competitive Tennis player, in a band and a US Patent holder.

Shekhar More

Shekhar heads the Electronic Trading business at Nuvama Wealth Management Limited.

He has more than 14 years of experience in sell-side Institutional Equities (primarily in Electronic Sales Trading) – with a background in Electronic Engineering, Trading Technologies and Algorithm Analytics.

Before joining Nuvama, he was a part of Haitong India Pvt Ltd Electronic Sales Trading Team.

Soniya More

Soniya More has been focused on equity dealing of Kotak Life Insurance for the last 3 years. She has more than 18 years’ experience in the stock market. Recently she received the KLAP Award from Kotak Life for demonstrating a supreme level of commitment in Equity dealing.

Soniya has completed her graduation from D.G.Ruparel College & PG – Finance from K C College. She has completed ‘Executive Programme in Algorithmic Trading’ (EPAT) from QuantInsti. She is a ‘Certified Alternative Investment Manager’ from the Association of International Wealth Management of India.

Kunal Nandwani

Kunal is a tech entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of fintech - uTrade solutions and internet firm, Cove Identity.

Kunal has worked with Lehman Brothers, Nomura and BNP Paribas in London.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from PEC (India) and MBA from ESSEC (Paris). Kunal is also an author and angel investor.

Vikas Panwar

Vikas Panwar is currently associated with Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) as a Country Business Manager for India. He is with GLEIF from more than a year, now. He represents GLEIF in all key stakeholder engagements and leads the awareness strategy for better adoption and usage of LEI in India. He is a member of the BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) Technical committee working on digital signatures standardization and part of an international, govt. lead working group, exploring International mutual recognition of trust services in digital trade.

He was earlier associated with National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE). He worked in multiple departments in a span of fourteen years in his last stint with the stock exchange.

He is a business administration graduate and holds an MBA.

Shri Sameer G. Patil

Shri Sameer has 25+ years of experience in traded equity & debt assets classes, underlying commodity markets, and global Index / FX / interest rate / commodity derivatives in both exchange and OTC markets. As Chief Business Officer at BSE, he spearheads the group’s Business Development and Marketing function as well as the strategic ventures.

Under his leadership, BSE has demonstrated revival in equity and derivatives segments. He played a key role in conceptualizing Spot Exchange for Gold in GIFT city and Domestic Zone. He serves as Board Member for several BSE group companies.

He was part of the core team responsible for the setup and success of MCX, in his previous assignment as Senior Vice President (PKMT & Business Development). He is credited for successful launch of flagship contracts, and several International Exchanges including DGCX.

He is a credible expert in areas ranging from commodities, Index development, hedging strategies, product design & launch, and physical market outreach. Due to his rich experience, he contributes to several working groups of the Government and Regulators.

He began his career with K J Investors Services, affiliate of Cargill Investors Services. He is Science Graduate and MBA Finance from Mumbai University. He was awarded the “India UAE business Ambassador of the year 2018” at Abu Dhabi for his achievements.

Sunil Ramrakhiani

Sunil Ramrakhiani is the Chief Business Officer - Equity of BSE. He joined BSE 10 months back just when BSE derivatives contracts were being rolled out. In his initial stages, he has worked on building derivatives ecosystems, enabling derivatives analytics and execution platforms necessary for bringing liquidity. In his latest focus area overseeing Institutional business, he has been relentlessly working with Institutional brokers, FPIs and low latency firms for using BSE cash and derivatives platform.

Sunil has an overall 27 years of diverse experience in Indian financial markets in various strategic and leadership roles as a Shareholder, Director & Chief Operating Officer, Managing Partner and as a head in various Institutions of repute. He has worked across Proprietary Trading, High Frequency Trading, Exchange, Treasury in Bank, Broking and Wealth Management. He has experience across Equities, Derivatives, Currency, Mutual Funds, Portfolio Management Services, Commodities & Alternate assets.

Sunil has worked on building business from ground up and has worked across organisations like ICICI Bank, NCDEX, IL&FS Investsmart, Way2Wealth Securities & QuantAI Technologies. Sunil has a good experience in starting algo trading and later on identifying and building High Frequency Trading (HFT) business with AlphaGrep Securities.

Sunil is a Mechanical Engineer from Govt Engg College Jabalpur, PGDBA from IBS Ahmedabad and CFA (Level 2) from ICFAI. He has served on the product committee on MCX, part of CII National Committee for Commodities, Advisory Committee for framework for AIFs and interfaced with regulators for development of markets.

Vishtaspa Rana

Vishtaspa Rana is currently working with 3P Investment Managers (AIF Category III) as Head - Equity Trading. He has earlier worked with TATA Mutual Fund as Trader for their Mutual Fund and AIF Schemes.

He obtained his graduate diploma in Business Administration from S.I.E.S College of Management, and Bachelor Degree in Commerce from University of Mumbai.

Sandeep V. Sabnani

Sandeep is a seasoned Head of Product Strategy and Growth (Big Bets) at ION Equities with over 18 years of experience in FinTech and SaaS domains.

Sandeep’s career spans various key engineering and product leadership roles at ION and Ericsson. His expertise lies in product management, strategy, and growth, where he excels in building client relationships, leading cross-functional teams for business expansion, and delivering innovative solutions in the dynamic financial and regulatory landscapes.

Drawing on his engineering background, Sandeep combines strategic insights to achieve impactful outcomes. Passionate about entrepreneurship, growth and innovation, Sandeep is committed to creating value for users and partners alike, always striving for quality and excellence in his endeavors.

Sandeep holds a Master’s degree in Information Security from the University of London and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

Gaurik Shah

CFA

Gaurik joined Avendus Capital Public Markets Alternate Strategies LLP as a part of the investment team in April 2021. He has over 17 years of experience in the Indian market with specialisation in Quantitative research. During is career in Auantitative trading he has been responsible for conceptualising, research & fund management of various Quantitative funds including CTA/Managed futures strategies, Multi-strategy India equity fund, Currency and Equity hedging strategies. Apart from Indian markets Gaurik has also experience in trading Asian equity futures while working with Monsoon Capital in Singapore . He has also been part of Delta-1 team at RBS NV , Hong Kong. Gaurik completed Post Graduate in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur and Bachelor’s in Engineering from Pune University.

Gaurik is a CFA® charter holder, CFA Institute

Vishal Shukla

Vishal Shukla is currently posted in the Policy and Development Division - 2, Market Regulation Department of SEBI. Prior to this he was on deputation to National Institute of Securities Market (NISM) as a faculty member. Having joined SEBI in 2002, he has served in several other departments of SEBI like SEBI Chandigarh Local Office, Integrated Surveillance Department and Market Intermediaries Regulation and Supervision Department.

Harish Srivastava

Heads the derivatives trading (High Touch, Low Touch and HFT) as well as derivatives research for Kotak. With Kotak for 11 years and industry experience of 23 years, entirely in equity derivatives. Extensive experience with Execution Algos, OMS and trading Risk management for all varieties of equity derivatives products.

Rana Usman

Manan Vaishnav

CAIA

Manan is the Co-Head of Societe Generale Securities India, with effect from November 6, 2023 & is responsible for spearheading the growth of the company.

He has 19 years of experience at marquee investment banks, such as Deutsche Bank, CLSA & Goldman Sachs as a Sales Trader for India Listed Derivatives. During this time, Manan has served some of the largest systematic long/short derivatives trading hedge funds based out of Hong Kong & Singapore. In his current role, Manan is working closely with the exchanges & clearing corporations and is an active member of Broker Industry Standards Forum.

Manan holds a master’s degree in economics from the MS University of Baroda, a master’s degree in business administration from Indian Institute of Management Indore, and a CAIA Charter from the US-based Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association. He has built a strong community of followers on LinkedIn, where he talks about topics related to finance & careers apart from mentoring undergraduate students, early & mid-career professionals. He liaises with some of the top b-schools in India for providing career guidance workshops to its MBA students. His work can be found on https://www.linkedin.com/in/manankv

Guy Warren

Guy joined ITRS in July 2014 as CEO and brings more than 25 years’ experience in financial services and technology businesses.

Guy had previously been a customer of ITRS, using Geneos to improve the availability of the real-time systems when he was COO of FTSE Group. He has also managed a financial services product business as the EVP & General Manager of Misys Banking, a leader in the core banking solutions market. Guy has a strong background in large blue chip organisations and more recently working with private equity backed companies. Earlier in his career, he was the CEO of Logica UK, a large professional services company.