Ashishkumar Chauhan

Biography

 Ashish works as the MD & CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Asia‟s first stock exchange. BSE is ranked 1st in the world in terms of number of stocks listed, 5th in the world in terms of number of trades per day and 9th in the world in terms of market capitalization. Ashish also serves on the Board of Directors of Indian Clearing Corporations Limited (ICCL), Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL), United Stock Exchange of India Limited (USE), Bank of India Shareholding Limited (BOISL), BSE Training Institute Limited (BTI) and Marketplace Technologies Limited. Ashish set up and operated NSE‟s equities and derivatives markets from 1994 to 2000. Due to his work in setting up modern exchange traded financial derivatives in Indian markets at NSE from 1995 onwards, he is known as the „Father of Derivatives‟ in Indian markets. He set up India‟s first commercial satellite telecom network in 1994 ad was also involved in conceptualisation of National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCCL) and National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL). From 2000-2009, Ashish worked as the Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Reliance group. In addition to his responsibilities at Reliance Industries Limited (RIL, the flagship company of Reliance group), Ashish was involved in setting up Information Technology for Reliance Communications, Reliance Retail, Reliance Oil and Gas, Reliance Life Sciences and several other businesses within Reliance group. Ashish was ranked amongst the top 50 CIOs in the world by several magazines and institutions from 2005-2009. Ashish has won several International and Indian awards in providing the best IT solutions for different industries he has worked for including stock markets, petrochemicals, telecommunications etc. He also served as the CEO of Mumbai Indians – whilst having started his career with Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) as a Project Finance Officer (1991-93). Ashish holds a B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay (1989) and PGDM from IIM Calcutta (1991). Ashish has made contributions to many books, newspapers, magazines and journals on the subject of Information technology, market microstructure, financial sector policies, automation of markets, creation of indices etc. He and his writings are widely quoted in magazines, academic journals and trade journals in India and abroad.

Research Interest

 Account, Finance, Management etc