About Ashish Chauhan

Ashish (52) works as the CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Ashish also serves on the Board of Directors of Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL), etc. Ashish is also on the Board of Governors of IIIT Jabalpur. He has been ranked amongst the 60 most influential Gujaratis in the world by Chitralekha, a Gujarati magazine for last 2 years. From 2000-2009, Ashish worked as the Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Reliance group. Reliance group is India’s largest business house with turnover in excess of US $ 75 billions.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 worked as the Head of Corporate Communications from 2005 to 2008 for Reliance group In addition, as a part of his responsibilities within Reliance group, Ashish served as the CEO of Mumbai Indians, a cricket team with legends such as Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Sanath Jaisurya, Lasith Malinga and Dwayne Bravo. From 1993-2000, Ashish worked as a 5 member team to set up and operate National Stock Exchange (NSE). Ashish set up and operated, NSE’s equities markets from 1994 to 2000. He was instrumental in setting up initial Information Technology infrastructure including the first commercial satellite telecom network in India for NSE. Due to his work in setting up modern exchange traded financial derivatives in Indian markets at NSE, he is known as the ‘Father of Derivatives’ in Indian markets. He was instrumental in creating NSE-50, the largest traded index in derivatives in India, NSE’s certification in Financial Markets (NCFM), IPO through screen and several other innovations in the Indian markets. Ashish holds a B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay (1989) and MBA from IIM Calcutta (1991). Ashish serves on several government and regulatory committees currently.