Vaisshali Babu

Ms. Vaisshali Babu has assumed office as the Managing Director & CEO with effect from January 1, 2024.

Previously, Vaisshali was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Risk Officer of the Company.

Vaisshali is a capital market veteran with overall capital market experience of over 30 years spread across BNP Paribas, BofA (ML), State Street, SHCIL, United India Insurance Co Ltd., and Mumbai Port Trust. Her area of expertise is in clearing house operations, custodian business, products and relationship management, operations management, project management including risk, compliance and audit. Vaisshali is very active in various industry groups and has worked closely with Indian regulators on topics related to the development of Indian capital market. She has the credentials of articulating key regulatory changes e.g. foreign investments in India, improving settlement efficiencies, debt market investments etc.

Vaisshali holds a master’s degree in commerce from Mumbai University with a business administration qualification from Symbiosis. She has credentials of executive programmes from IIM Bangalore, IIM Rohtak and IIM Calcutta and is member of Institute of Directors. She was recognised as “India’s top 100 women in Finance” by AIWMI in 2019 and awarded “Best in Custody” at the Women in Finance Asia Awards in 2022.

Complete believer in changing society via children’s education – actively associated with few NGOs.

Her professional mantra is “Be Simple Be Different”.

Balaji Balasubramanian

Balaji Balasubramanian is a Partner at Price Waterhouse & Co LLP, based in GIFT City. He focuses on Financial Services clients of the firm.

Balaji advises Foreign Portfolio Investors, Banks and Funds from a Tax & Regulatory perspective, specifically on their India entry strategy and platform set-up. Balaji has advised on large Banking/Non-banking M&A transactions in India. He has worked on platforms relating to niche banking & capital markets projects both in the Indian mainland and Gujarat International Finance Tec-City/ International Financial Services Centre.

Balaji is part of industry delegations discussing with Indian regulators and tax authorities on evolving policy matters.

Rajib Ranjan Borah

Rajib is the Co-founder and CEO of iRage Broking Services LLP, an Indian clearing & broking firm engaged in institutional broking & high-frequency proprietary trading. He also co-founded and serves as Director of QuantInsti, a globally recognized leader in quantitative trading education.

At iRage, he focuses on proprietary trading strategies development, business growth initiatives, risk management processes, and operations optimization. A global speaker at algo trading conferences, he serves on advisory committees at all three major Indian exchanges.

His career spans roles at Optiver (High-Frequency Trading in European and US markets, Amsterdam), PwC (Strategy Consulting), Bloomberg (Equity Derivatives Research, New York), and Oracle (Business Intelligence).

A national Olympiad finalist, he has represented India three times at the World Puzzle Championship. Rajib also serves as visiting faculty in finance at IIM Ahmedabad & IIT Bombay. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from NIT Surathkal, and a post-graduate degree in management from IIM Calcutta.

Aniruddha Chatterjee

Aniruddha Chatterjee brings about 25 years of experience in the information and analysis industry and has held several leadership roles across leading companies and successfully led business growth and transformations. Prior to joining NSE Cogencis in 2022, Aniruddha was with Refinitiv (erstwhile Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk business and now a part of London Stock Exchange Group), where he has served first as Head of Buy Side and Exchanges and thereafter as Market Leader Account Management for Key and Strategic accounts across South Asia. Aniruddha also served as the regional sales director at Dow Jones for six years and led the growth of its regulatory risk & compliance business in India. He spent over a decade working with India's premier economic think tank CMIE leading sales, business development and also led the company’s pioneering effort to start India's largest primary survey of households. Aniruddha also had a stint with Bloomberg as Team Leader and was recognised for developing the company’s buy-side sales strategy in the region.

Anshuman Das

Anshuman Das is MD and Chief Technology Officer of JM Financial Services, the retail brokerage arm of JM Financial. JM Financial is one of the top Investment Bank of India.

He recently moved out from the role of CIO of Sharekhan post its acquisition from BNPP to Mirae Assets. Prior to that he was the CTO at Edelweiss Global Markets where he managed the Algo and HFT trading business. Before that he was with Citigroup, where he was instrumental in bringing the first global HFT players to NSE. He also led the India development team for low latency Global Market Access and was the global lead for unified cross asset pre-trade risk system. He is an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Anil Ghelani

CFA

Anil has been working with DSP Group since 2003. The DSP Group has a legacy of from than 150 years, making it one of the oldest and most respected financial services firms in India. He is currently Head of Passive Investments & Products. Previously, he served as the CEO & Chief Investment Officer at DSP BlackRock Pension Fund Managers. Earlier in his career at DSP, he led the Risk and Quantitative Analysis team providing quantitative research inputs and buy-side credit research on companies across various sectors.

Prior to joining DSP, Anil worked at IL&FS Asset Management Company and at S.R. Batliboi a member firm of EY.

He has been a volunteer with the CFA Society India for more than a decade and has served as the Vice Chairman on the board.

Pramod Koyothi

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.

Kunal Nandwani

Kunal is a tech entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of fintech - uTrade Solutions.

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.

Govind Patnaik

Govind is primarily responsible for Execution of Equity Trades and manages electronic trading and Algo wheel within the desk. Govind joined Franklin Templeton in April 2006 and was heading Global Trading Analytics team in Hyderabad until 2015. Govind relocated to Chennai in 2015 to assume trading role in the India Trading Team. He is also Co-chair of the India Working Group of the FIX Trading Community, and is part of ASIFMA India Working Group (Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association). Prior to Joining Franklin Templeton, Govind was with Fidelity Investments in their Retirement Services Division. Govind has MBA in finance and has Investment Foundations Certificate from CFA institute. He has over 20 years of experience in Asset Management and Financial Services Industry.

Brian Pomraning

Brian Pomraning was appointed Chief Product Officer for Trading and Connectivity Solutions at Broadridge in September 2024. In this role, he spearheads the global product management organization, overseeing the full suite of trading and connectivity products and services. His focus is on driving innovation and enhancing client offerings in the rapidly evolving fintech landscape.

Previously, Brian served as Chief Revenue Officer at Exegy, where he was instrumental in enhancing client relationships and driving revenue growth through strategic market initiatives. With over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, Brian has a strong background in product management, sales, and technology.

He has held senior positions at major financial institutions, including Barclays and JP Morgan, where he led global teams in quantitative analytics and equities trading. Brian's extensive expertise in electronic trading and product development positions him as a key leader in advancing Broadridge’s strategic goals in trading and connectivity solutions.

Manan Vaishnav

CAIA

Manan is the Head of Societe Generale Securities India & is responsible for spearheading the growth of the company.

He has 20 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.