Trade Tech India 2012 Speakers

Mr. Ravi Narain is currently the Managing Director and CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India Limited. Mr. Narain has a degree in economics from Cambridge University, UK and a
degree in business administration (Finance) from Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania, USA.

Mr. Narain is the Chairman of National Securities Clearing Corporation Ltd. (NSCCL) and NSE.IT Ltd. Mr. Narain also serves as a Director of the National Securities Depository Ltd. and National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Ltd. He is a member of the Central Listing Authority. He is also associated with various committees of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Mr. Narain has been associated with Industrial Development Bank of India in various capacities and was a member of the core team which did the initial work for the establishment of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).

 Mr. Kannan holds a B.E. (Hons.) degree in Electrical and Electronics, M.Sc (Hons.), in Economics from BITS, Pilani, India and an M.B.A. in Finance from Vanderbilt University, USA. Prior to his appointment at BSE, Mr. Kannan was a Managing Director in the Corporate Strategy Group with Bank of America - Merrill Lynch based in New York. He joined Merrill Lynch in March 2008 as a Managing Director (Strategy and Business Development). In this role he focused on the development and execution of key strategic initiatives for Merrill Lynch in the emerging markets of Asia and Middle-East & North Africa (MENA) and the Global Sovereign Wealth Funds Group.
Prior to Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, Mr. Kannan was Senior Vice President at NYSE Euronext. During his stint at NYSE Euronext, he has served in various senior roles across a range of businesses including Vice President, Corporate Client Group, Head of International Listings (Asia Pacific Region), and Managing Director, International Strategy and Business Development of the Exchange.

Mr. Kannan was nominated as a Young Global Leader in 2007 by the World Economic Forum (WEF), based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sridhar has over 25 years of experience in Finance, Funds Management and Business Development areas. His strength is his ability to tactfully combine his in-depth experience and knowledge with analytics, common sense and people orientation.

Till mid 2009, Sridhar was the CEO of UTI International (Singapore) Ltd., an investment management Company of UTI AMC Ltd at Singapore. As a CEO of this MAS Licensed fund management company in Singapore, he was responsible for driving the entire investment management business of the company, which included business development, sales & marketing, product development, fund management and investment operations at Singapore. During his tenure at Singapore, he had set up this full fledged investment management company from the scratch and was also managing funds for overseas institutional clients from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Middle East.

Till July 2007, Sridhar was the Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of UTI AMC Ltd., managing the Equity and Debt Funds of Rs. 48,000 crores (USD 10 billion). He has handled various assignments covering diverse facets of investment management industry such as project financing, credit rating, treasury, project financing, infrastructure funding, equity research, business development and corporate planning, in addition to his core area of investment management. He has also extensively contributed on various board level committees on Investment, Product Development, HR, Risk Management and Corporate Strategy.
Sridhar started his career with Price Waterhouse Coppers in 1984. Subsequently, he worked in the finance division of Ashok Leyland Ltd., for three years, before he joined the erstwhile UTI, in Dec 1998. Sridhar was a member of BSE Index Committee, NSE Index Policy Committee and FTSE Asia Pacific Regional Equity Committee. He was also a Director on the Board of ‘Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI)’ for more than 3 years, till 2007.

Steven Michael is a founder and Managing Member of Stonehenge Capital Management, LLC, Stonehenge Asset Management, LLC, and the Manager of Stonehenge Diversified I, LLC, Stonehenge Diversified II, LLC and Forward Curve Realignment, LLC; three a US domiciled Futures and Forex funds. Steven Michael’s financial and trading career began in 1985 when he began trading in the fixed income markets and specialized in the yield curve trading and analysis. He took that experience and began development of computerized risk Management models for equity and financial options traders that are still frequently used by risk managers and are implemented by the current Stonehenge Funds.

Mr. Michael’s extensive trading experience started at the Chicago Board of Trade as a floor trader in the financial markets. He then developed proprietary models used to successfully trade the yield curve instruments. He used these models to expand into the IMM (International Monetary Market) division of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Steven has been a member in good standing of the Chicago Board of Trade as well as the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Mid American Exchange, where he sat on a number of Member committees. Mr. Michael later founded a yield curve proprietary arbitrage and execution company, S & G, where his responsibilities included leading the bond basis trading and overall group risk management. When S & G was sold
in 1990, Mr. Michael began to concentrate solely on fund management and trading in the foreign exchange markets.

From 1995 through 1997, Mr. Michael directed the foreign exchange trading department of a large London and Chicago-based Investment firm Gerrard and National, where his responsibilities were to manage all proprietary trading and head global risk management. From 1997 through 1999, he was chief dealer and head of all global FX trading for Rosenthal Collins Group, a Chicago-based commodity brokerage firm. In 2000 Mr. Michael joined forces with the head macro analyst at Soros Quantum Fund to form Macro Fund – a global macro fund. In 2001, Mr. Michael sold his interest in Macro to pursue his interest of utilizing strict quantitative models and started Corymb Capital Partners and Quant-FX Management which utilized these models. Quant-FX Management implemented a proprietary quantitative mathematical model used for capital appreciation
with a precise disciplined risk management overlay model. Since 2008, Mr. Michael has been utilizing this strategy within the Stonehenge Group of Companies.

Steve Michael is currently is an Adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University. He has lectured to graduate level classes at both Florida Atlantic University and University of Miami on a regular basis. He also is frequently invited to speak at various conferences and symposiums in Asia and the US.

Seth R. Freeman is the co-founder and CEO and Chief Investment Officer of EM Capital Management, LLC, a U.S. SEC registered investment adviser and fund manager specializing in emerging and frontier markets. He is the co-portfolio manager of an India-focused mutual fund and several India-focused private investment vehicles. Seth holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird. He is a frequent contributor on Bloomberg TV, CNBC and NDTV-Profit and regularly teaches master-classes or serves as a chair or speaker at major investment conferences around the world. He is also a Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor and advises investors, funds, directors and their attorneys on distresses assets and ... More resolving complex cross-border and emerging markets investment problems.

A Commerce graduate.
MBA - Finance.
Work Profile: Dealing in Cash and Derivatives Market, using trading system Bloomberg POMS. All trades route to the broker through bloomberg EMSX.

Before joining HSBC Asset Management, Mehul Bhatt was a Fund Manager with Credit Suisse Asset Management in India. Prior to that, he was a Fund Manager at ASK Investment Managers, which managed over USD 500 million. He has over 14 years of experience of which the last 9 have been in managing discretionary equity money. He is a bottom-up stock-picker focusing on investing in stocks at attractive valuations. He likes to buy companies that have sustainable competitive moats and emphasizes on integrity and competence in the management team. Mehul is an engineer and an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

A Fellow Member of the Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Chartered Financial Analyst from CFA Institute, USA, Vikas, at 35 years is the youngest member of the Edelweiss Management Committee.

Joining Edelweiss from ICICI Securities Ltd., at the young age of 26, at a time when the concept of derivatives was largely unknown in India, Vikas was instrumental in setting up the Alternative Investment & Derivatives Desk at Edelweiss. Also, Under his leadership, Edelweiss has become largest Institutional Equity brokerage house in the country.

Currently, he heads Wholesale Capital Markets business which includes Investment Banking & Institutional Equity Business and has a team of approximately 200 professionals.

Vikas’ views on the Indian capital markets are eagerly sought by the business media in India and the Asia Pacific region. He also regularly contributes articles on capital markets and investment related issues to Indian business journals. He is a fitness fanatic who has run the half-marathon twice and is currently learning poker. He has deep interest in Entrepreneurship and Psychology. Vikas is married and has one daughter.

Anant is a Co-Founder and Director of Forefront Capital Management, a leading quantitative investment manager in India managing discretionary and advisory mandates for institutions and high net worth individuals.

Prior to co-founding Forefront Capital Management, Anant was a portfolio manager at AQR Capital Management, a twenty billion dollar quantitative hedge fund in Greenwich (Connecticut), USA. As a member of the Global Stock Selection team, Anant researched and built systematic stock selection and sector selection models for developed and emerging equity markets. He created and successfully traded new global strategies based on stock loan and short interest information, as well as dividend signaling strategies in Europe. He also managed and traded multi-billion dollar long-short, relaxed constraints, and long-only equity portfolios across developed and emerging markets.
Anant graduated cum laude from the Management and Technology Program at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) with a B.S. in Economics (Finance, Management) and a B.S.E in Computer Engineering.

In May 2008, Sandeep Tyagi founded his current venture, Estee Advisors Private Limited; a Gurgaon based privately owned, Quantitative Investment Management Company and a broker with all the major Indian exchanges (NSE, BSE, MCX-SX, and USE). Responsible for setting the firm’s direction, sustaining a winning culture and developing innovative financial products, Mr. Tyagi is a serial entrepreneur interested in building profitable, scalable and socially valuable businesses by using core competence in analytics of large amounts of information. Prior to Estee Advisors, Mr. Tyagi was the Founder and CEO of Inductis, founded in 2000, this consulting and analytics firm offered consulting services to large financial institutions and banking clients. With the help of its unique mix of world-class business consultancy and state-of-the-science analytical capabilities & infrastructure, he helped a wide variety of financial institutions and banking clients.

Prior to founding Inductis, he was a partner at the Mitchell Madison Group (MMG), an eminent global strategy consulting firm. He was the leader of MMG’s Pricing and Product Design Practice and co-leader of the eCommerce Practice there. While at MMG, Sandeep led strategy engagements in the areas of investment optimization, risk analytics, reengineering and new product development.

Mr. Tyagi has published articles in publications such as the Journal of Business Strategy and Directorship. He is a Board Member of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Excellence Foundation, a non-profit alumni organization that supports the development of IIT, Delhi into a world-class institution and a Charter Member of TiE. He is the Charter President of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). He was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Service at the 2007 convocation by IIT Delhi. He also received the 40 Under 40 Award in New Jersey in 2006.
Mr. Tyagi holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BTech in Computer Science from IIT, Delhi.

Sandeep has consistently demonstrated his leadership qualities in his 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. He deserves credit for pioneering derivatives in India, and being instrumental in successfully setting up an equity derivatives desk at leading brokerage houses in the country. Before dreaming about quant capital, Sandeep was heading the derivatives team at Kotak Securities ( a JV partner of Goldman Sachs in India), and during p ), g his four-year stint at the company, Kotak Securities emerged as the market leader in the institutional derivatives segment. He has been instrumental in catapulting REFCO (now MF Global) to become a major derivatives house in the country. Sandeep’s previous stints include a key role in setting up the equity derivatives desk at ICICI Securities as vice president. He started his career with the Economic Times Research Bureau, a research wing of the leading financial daily of India, The Economic Times. He later joined IDBI Asset Management (now Principal Asset Management), and was part of the core team that initialized asset management, playing a key role in devising, conceptualizing and marketing one of India’s most successful mutual fund schemes.

Roop is working with Volvie Capital as Director since 1995. Volvie Capital has office in Mumbai, Singapore and New York and works extensively on fund syndication as well as cross-border transactions.

Roop personally works on Capital Raising, Acquisition /strategy and JV partnership for large infrastructure projects. He has over Twenty five years of experience in the Indian Capital Market with significant knowledge on foreign listing and raising capital including structured finance.

Kunal is heading Algorithmic Trading at Edelweiss Capital. He has 5 years of proprietary trading experience at Edelweiss in Indian equity and equity derivatives. His expertise includes options and special situations trading. He has been instrumental in rolling out algorithmic trading at Edelweiss over the past one year. He is an engineer and has an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Rajesh Kothari is Founder and Managing Director of AlfAccurate Advisors (AAA). AAA is one of the leading Investment Advisory Firm in India and is SEBI registered PMS provider in the country. Rajesh has more than 15 years of experience in Indian capital market in the field of Equity Research and Fund Management. Prior to forming AAA, he was Fund Manager at DSP Blackrock Fund Managers and Director at Voyager Investment Advisors. He was rated as Platinum Fund Manager by Economic Times and is also recipient of Fund of the Year Award by CNBC-CRISIL. AAA was nominated among Top Three for Financial Advisory Awards by CNBC-ICRA IN 2010.

Mihir Shah has been an integral part of India Capital Research (ICR) since 2010 and has over three years of prior experience in financial markets across the world, including New York, London,Tokyo and Mumbai.

Mihir holds an MBA with High Honors from the University of Chicago, where he was named a Siebel Scholar. He also holds a Master’s degree in computer science from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree in computer technology from VJTI.

Ashish joined Quant from Nomura/Lehman India where he was involved with setting up the equity-linked structured products desk. Prior to Nomura, he was with Lehman Brothers, New York, on the FX derivatives desk, trading currency derivatives and structured products for the US market. His interests lie in equity and FX derivatives, systematic quant-based trading models, direct market access and low-latency trading.

Ashish holds an MBA in finance from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Prior to that he obtained an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA and a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI, University of Mumbai, India.

Ashish is a member of the Fix Protocol India working group and on the board of the University of Michigan Alumni club in India. Outside of professional activities Ashish is a 16-handicap golfer and a certified yoga instructor.

Sandeep Phanasgaonkar is President & Chief Technology Officer for Reliance Capital Ltd. Sandeep is responsible for all IT initiatives at Reliance Capital. Sandeep has over 24 years of experience in applying IT solutions for finance, banking and BPO and IT-enabled services. He began his career with the State Bank of India and has worked with Tata Infotech, iFLEX Solutions and with Deutsche Bank as its Regional-Asia Technology Head. He joins Reliance Capital from Genpact where he was the Global Chief Information Officer. Sandeep led the critical IT Transition of Genpact from GE and was responsible for global IT delivery and driving operating efficiencies across India and the global locations of the company.

Sandeep's current role as CTO for Reliance Capital requires him to drive both Line-of-Business (LOB) specific initiatives and pan-Capital, strategic initiatives for the enterprise. This leverages synergy between different Line-of-Business functions, creating a differentiating value proposition for the company's services and products and also a whole, new service and relationship proposition for the customer. He is also focusing very keenly on driving productivity and taking cost out of IT and business operations and giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "doing more with less".
Sandeep is an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Mgmt Studies, Mumbai.

Mr. Gaurav Arora stands as a true guide, giving vision to the whole group. He has a valuable experience of 21 years in the Capital Markets and has been an entrepreneur throughout. After the financial reforms of 1991 he saw an opportunity in financial services industry which led to the formation of Jaypee Capital Services Limited. He is regularly seen sharing his view with market participants in Industry Conferences like FIA, FOW and magazines like Euromoney.

Mohandoss is the Vice President – Technology Services of Fidelity India. In his current role he is responsible for Asset Management IT and Corporate Technology IT Deliveries in India and also manages PMO and VMO organizations. Mohan has been with Fidelity for over 4 years. During his tenure in Fidelity, Mohan has worked in Bangalore and Boston. Mohan was VP of Technology and Services and was responsible for multiple services lines like Architecture, Testing, and Business Intelligence in the past. He was also VP of IT Vendor Management Office in Boston where he and his team was working with a number of key technology and services vendors for Fidelity.

Mohan has over 20 years of experience prior to Fidelity including a long stint at Sun Microsystems. Mohan was responsible for Sales, Marketing, Product, and Services Management in various capacities and has worked in multiple Asian Markets. Mohan is passionate about the application of technology to business and was responsible for multiple industries like Financial Services, Manufacturing, Energy, Government, Health Care, Education and Research during his career.

Mohan is a bachelor in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Business Administration. He teaches regularly in Management Institutes on CRM and Knowledge Management.

Ravi has the unique experience of being both a successful entrepreneur in the software industry as well as a global technology executive of large financial corporations. Ravi pioneered the concept of global development centers and offshore software development in the 80s in India. Ravi is currently the Chief Technology Officer with the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai. Prior to joining the NSE, Ravi was a Partner with BlueFirma, Inc. a consulting firm specializing in Information Technology Management, Strategy and Governance. Ravi was also the Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President with the American Stock Exchange (Amex) where he was responsible for all aspects of IT management from strategy to operations. He served on the board of SIAC, a joint venture between the Amex and the NYSE, and a leading provider of technology solutions to the securities industry. Ravi was recognized by Information Week as one of the Chiefs of the Year for 2001 for his leadership in restoring Amex operations after 9/11 for a successful reopening of the business on September 17, 2001 and by Computerworld Honors Program ‘A Search for new heroes’ in 2002 for implementing sophisticated market data systems at the Amex. Prior to joining Amex, Ravi worked with Citibank in various senior technology management positions with the Global Corporate Bank in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York, with teams spread across Asia Pacific, Europe, US and Latin America. Ravi was also an active champion of Business Process Reengineering and Quality Management using various formal methodologies. As an entrepreneur, he also started and managed two extremely successful software companies for Citibank in India. Citicorp Overseas Software Limited from 1983 to 1992. COSL later became Orbitech and then merged with Polaris Software Lab Ltd. Citicorp Information Technology Industries Limited from 1989 to 1992. CITIL later became i-flex Solutions Ltd, now acquired by Oracle. In the early part of his career, Ravi founded and managed a successful IT services company and worked with IBM as a senior engineer. Ravi holds a Bachelor of Technology (Honors) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has also completed The Executive Program from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia

Around twenty years of experience in Information Technology ,capital market, (DP, Custody, Equities and Derivatives markets, Portfolio Management System, Mutual Fund), core and retail Banking, Credit Cards/Channels etc. Technology professional with the proven ability to deliver impetus to business and operations via efficient deployment of Information Technology. Experienced in defining and driving IT strategy in partnership with business to complement business strategy. Indepth understanding of BFSI business and related technologies. Strong delivery focus backed with Management, Strategy, Communication, Leadership and influencing skills. Demonstrated ability to work in estabilished as well as startup organizations.

Over 26 years in information technology with work experience in India and　United States. Accomplishments in multiple industries (Banking, Broking, NBFC, Manufacturing, FMCG, Pharma, IT) in both management consultancy and company executive roles. Over 16 years in various ICICI group companies in senior IT leadership roles. Previously worked 3 years in Gartner at their US headquarters before returning to India. Prior consulting assignments included stints in Citigroup, Lever, Pitney Bowes, Pfizer, Boehringer, Control Data, Gould Shawmut, Fischer & Porter, and　Wharton Business School　while based in the United States. Teaching and research experience in the United States while pursuing post graduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Started career as a programmer in ABC Consultants after graduating in Electrical Engineering. Key focus areas include aligning business strategies with IT execution, leading IT enabled business transformation initiatives, and driving process excellence across the organization for improved operational efficiency and productivity.

Barnaby Nelson is Head of Business Development for Asia at BNP Paribas Securities Services, based in Hong Kong. Having grown up in the territory, Barnaby previously launched and managed Thomson Reuters' reference data business in Asia-Pacific, focusing on core issues such as asset valuation and back office processing. Prior to that, he has worked in the financial services industry in London, Luxembourg and New York.

Anshuman Jaswal is a Senior Analyst in Celent's Securities and Investments group and is based in the India office. His expertise lies in electronic trading, derivatives, market infrastructure, market regulation, brokerages, bond trading, hedge funds, and commodity markets.
Mr. Jaswal has been quoted regularly in the media, including CNBC, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Forbes, BusinessWeek, International Herald Tribune, Economic Times, Business Standard, The Hindu Business Line, Financial Express, Outlook and Hedgeweek.

Prior to joining Celent, Mr. Jaswal has worked in Insurance (ICICI Prudential), Research (AC Nielsen), Banking (Axis Bank), and has also been an entrepreneur. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from IIM Ahmedabad, India’s premier B-School. His thesis work was on Commodity Markets. He also has an MBA (Finance) from NMIMS and B.Sc. Economics (Honours), from SOAS, University of London, specializing in Economics of Japan and China.

Dhaval Sanghavi is a Master of Commerce (University of Mumbai, India) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant (India) in 2004. He has an LL.M. in International Tax from the International Tax Centre of Leiden University, The Netherlands (2005). He completed his articleship with accounting firms in Mumbai where he worked in auditing, accounting and taxation.

Dhaval joined Jitendra Sanghavi & Co. in 2008 and was made partner in 2010.

Dhaval worked in tax consulting and law firms in Europe from 2005-2008 where he strengthened his knowledge on international taxation planning and structuring. Dhaval has over 7 years of experience in tax, with over 5 years focus on international tax. Key areas of practice are tax advisory and structuring, regulatory advice and financial due diligence. Dhaval specialises in advising on outbound investments from India, investments into India, EPC contracts, infrastructure projects, cross border restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. He has developed a niche in advising Indian clients, individuals and corporate, in respect to structuring their operations around the globe. Dhaval also extensively deals with intricate Indian tax issues arising on Indian operations of foreign companies.

Dhaval lectures at the International Tax Centre of Leiden University, speaks at seminars of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and is a contributor to international tax journals. Dhaval is a member of Study Circle Committee of IFA India – Western Chapter and a member of the International Tax Committee of Bombay Chartered Accountants Society (BCAS).

Zameer Syed is currently the Chief Technology Officer with the Reliance Securities Ltd. (Reliance Money) in Mumbai.

He has around 18 years of experience working in Banking and Financial Services domain, providing IT Strategic and Operations leadership in uniquely challenging situations.

Prior to joining the Reliance Securities, Zameer was Head of IT and Business Solutions Group with HDFC Securities, and also managing technology and projects for Private Banking Group of HDFC Bank and HDB Financials (a subsidiary of HDFC Bank).

Prior to joining with RSL, he served with Peregrine Capital, Rabo India, GE Money, ICICI Prudential and Mahindras, where he was responsible for IT management and Business Solutions functions, with teams across Asia, and involved in large enterprise-wide responsibilities.

Zameer is a dynamic, results-oriented leader with a strong track record of performance in turnaround and fast-paced organizations, and utilize keen analysis and insights and team approach to drive organizational improvements and implementation of best practices.

He holds a MCA from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, and Executive Masters from the Indian Institute of Management.

Ashima Goyal, professor IGIDR, Mumbai is widely published in institutional and open economy macroeconomics, international finance and governance and has participated in research projects with WB, GDN, RBI, ADB, and UN ESCAP. She is co-editor of a Routledge journal in Macroeconomics and International Finance, has received many fellowships, national and international awards, is active in the Indian public debate, and has served on several boards and policy committees.

Selected as one of four most powerful women in economics, a thought leader, by the editorial team across Business Today, in its Women’s Special issue-The Most Powerful Women in Business, Oct. 19, 2008; profiled in India Today (Woman), October 20, 2008. She has been a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, USA.

James Rae is a Credit Suisse Director and Head of AES Sales for Southeast Asia, located in Singapore. James has been in the financial industry for 18 years, 15 of which have been in the development and sales of electronic execution services in the U.S., Japan, and Southeast Asia. In 2005 he joined Credit Suisse's AES team in New York and in 2008 moved to Singapore to head their SE Asia sales effort.

Head of data analytics and strategic quantitative activities in large, medium sized and small organizations. Expertise in Financial Engineering, Quantitative Trading, Derivative Trading, Hedging, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Control Theory. Worked extensively in data analytics and machine learning as applied to Banking, Financial Services, Insurance and Financial Markets. Experience of ~18 years in application of advanced mathematical techniques to various enterprise problems. Aniruddha did PhD in control systems from University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Venky Panchapagesan is currently visiting the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) as an Associate Professor of Finance. He has held several positions, both in academia and in the financial services industry over the last 20 years in the US. Before joining IIMB, he headed a program to revamp trading analytical infrastructure at the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Prior to that, he was with the Quantitative Strategies Group of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) overseeing trading cost research in New York. Before joining the asset management industry, Dr. Panchapagesan was an assistant professor of Finance at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. He was also invited to be the Visiting Academic Fellow at the Nasdaq Stock Market from 2002-03.

His research on market microstructure issues has been published in several academic and industry peer-reviewed journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and the Financial Analysts Journal. He has also been cited in mainstream finance media such as the Wall Street Journal and Business Week. Dr. Panchapagesan holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Southern California and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta. He is also certified in India as a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant.

Over 27 years experience in the area of Application Systems/ IT Infrastructure development and management, managing all aspects of IT operations in Financial Services and manufacturing companies.

Have provided technical leadership & architectural vision in implementation of Mission Critical Applications across the organisation including IT Infrastructure, Web portals, web based and non-web based customised solutions. Skills in setting up WAN Networks and Network Security Systems

Successfully implemented a Multi-exchange online trading system to facilitate single-window trading on Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange.

Hiren Chandaria is a Fund Manager with Reliance Mutual Fund managing Commodity Funds. Prior to joining mutual fund arena he was a commodity trader with proprietary desk of Reliance Capital. He has been working with Reliance ADA group since November 2005. Hiren has undertaken various commodity related projects during the last few years. He has been invited to speak at various domestic and international conferences like World Commodities Week – London, etc

He is one of the youngest Fund Manager in the Industry. He is a commerce graduate and Masters in Business Administration (MMS/MBA) with Finance major.

Dewang Neralla, co-founder and Director – Technology, is the technology strategist of the Financial Technologies Group. He has been instrumental in establishing a strong, global product portfolio, having laid down the technology infrastructure that has today become the growth driver for various divisions and subsidiaries of the FT Group.

Dewang has been instrumental in setting up a robust, reliable technology and trading platform for the exchange ventures of the FT Group. He continues to play a strategic role in identifying and implementing the architectural and product strategies and plans for the company’s technology business. In addition, he defines the technology road map of the entire organization and drives the strategy and vision behind the company’s software products, the architecture, and all related standards for Financial Technologies’ products, solutions, and services.

Dewang is responsible for introducing new technology architecture and designing components and protocols to deliver cutting-edge technology. In addition to his role as the Director for Technology, Dewang looks after emerging technology applications in the financial markets, market opportunities, and strategic partnerships for the Group on an on-going basis. He is passionate about technology and firmly believes that innovations and inventions are the key to future technological breakthroughs for the group. His current interest lies is in taking up the challenge of working on mobile-based payment solutions that will replace credit card-based payments and currently he is focused on ensuring that this concept is brought to fruition, not just technologically, but also as a strong business proposition through a reduction in cost of a credit transaction.
He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and has been a featured speaker at several national and international academic, business, and technology forums as well as at industry events.

MR. LAMON RUTTEN is Managing Director & CEO of MCX. A world-renowned authority on commodity markets, Mr. Rutten’s main area of focus at MCX is to drive the development of the entire commodities market value chain in India. Previously, Mr. Rutten was a part of the MCX team as Joint Managing Director.

Mr. Rutten has served as Chief of Finance, Risk Management, and Information in the Commodities Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. After working on grain trade and collateralized grain finance in Mali, he joined UNCTAD in 1990. In UNCTAD, he was responsible for developing the organization’s work on commodity price risk management and structured finance. Since then, he has been doing extensive work in the areas of commodity policies, commodity market reforms, institutional developments (for the private and public sectors), upgrading the skills of the financial sector, and regulations affecting the commodity and financial sectors.

He has published more than 40 papers on these issues and numerous articles, has spoken at well over a 100 seminars, and has conceptualized and organized many high-level conferences (among others, the first ever international conferences on commodity exchange development, and on warehouse receipt finance; and Africa’s largest annual oil and gas trade and finance conferences).

Rajesh M Sharma has been working with Standard Chartered Bank India for over five years and is currently Director, Regional Product Manager for the Investor & Intermediaries Client Segment for South Asia. Rajesh has experience spanning over 18 years in the Capital Markets.

Prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, Rajesh has worked with Citi bank, ABN AMRO Bank and Stock Holding Corporation in various capacities in Securities Services.

Rajesh is a Postgraduate in Business Administration from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies.

Mr. U. Venkataraman is presently the CEO of Currency Derivatives Segment & Whole Time Director, MCX Stock Exchange – India’s New Stock Exchange – setting global benchmarks as the market leader in Exchange Traded Currency Futures Platform. He is also a Member of the Governing Board of MCX-SX, which consists of seasoned Regulators, financial market experts, domain specialists, experienced market practitioners and acclaimed academicians.

Prior to joining MCX Stock Exchange, Mr. U. Venkataraman was the Head of Treasury at IDBI Bank in Mumbai. His expertise and experience cover a broad business and Product Spectrum – Asset Liability Management, Foreign Exchange, Fixed Income and Derivatives.

In his current assignment he is also involved in developing Business Strategies for Business Development, overseeing the Risk Management Guidelines prescribed under the extant Regulatory Regime as well as overall administration of the Exchange.
He has been representing the Exchange in various Regulatory Forums as well as in the seminars organized by Trade Bodies and Associations apart from maintaining rapport with SROs, FEDAI (Foreign Exchange Dealers' Association of India) and FIMMDA (Fixed Income Money Market & Derivatives Association of India).

Shefali Anand is a staff reporter with the Wall Street Journal in New Delhi, writing about Indian markets, finance and management. Prior to this, Ms. Anand was based at the Journal’s New York bureau, where she covered America’s nearly $12-trillion mutual fund industry and contributed to personal finance and stock market coverage.

Ms. Anand has also worked with The Indian Express newspaper in Mumbai.
Ms. Anand was the first winner of The Wall Street Journal’s Journalism in Asia Fellowship in 2004. She holds a master’s degree from New York University in business and economic reporting, a diploma in advanced media studies from Mumbai’s Xavier Institute of Communications, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delhi. She is the recipient of awards from the New York Financial Writers Association and the South Asian Journalists Association in New York.