Ashish Chauhan is an Indian corporate executive best known for his appointment as Managing Director and CEO of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). He also serves as Chancellor of Allahabad University, Managing Director and CEO of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and a member of the Board of Governors of IIM Raipur.
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Ashish Kumar Chauhan was born on Sunday, March 16, 1967, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat (age 54; as of 2022). His zodiac sign is Pisces. He studied at Diwan Ballubhai Madhyamik School in Paldi, Ahmedabad. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Ashish Chauhan as a child
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Not much information is available about his parents and siblings.
Ashish Chauhan with his mother as a child
wife and children
Ashish is married to Sonal and has a son.
Ashish Chauhan and wife
Ashish Chauhan with wife and son
Profession
hold office
- Chairman, Board of Governors (BoG), NIT, Manipur
- Director, ICSI Insolvency Professionals Institute
- Chairman, South Asian Federation of Exchanges (SAFE)
- Member of SEBI Corporate Governance Council to help improve corporate governance standards for listed companies in India
- Advisor to Asia Pacific Investment Council and Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)
In 1991, he was appointed as an officer of the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) through a college internship.
Ashish Chauhan in college
In 1993, he served as Vice President of the National Stock Exchange (NSE). In 2001, he started working at Exchangenext.com, a company funded by Reliance Group. While with Reliance Group, he served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Reliance Infocomm in 2014, CIO of Reliance Group in 2015 and CEO of cricket team Mumbai Indians in 2001. In 2009, he started serving as Deputy CEO of Reliance Infocomm. Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and became CEO of BSE in 2012.
Ashish Chauhan delivers a speech at BSE
In June 2021, he was appointed as the Chancellor of Allahabad University.
Ashish Chauhan’s tweets after being appointed Chancellor of Allahabad University
Awards, Honors, Achievements
- 2009: Selected into the list of TOP 50 CIOs by Information Weekly in the United States
- 2013: Zee Business Award for exceptional contribution to commodities and capital markets
- 2014: IIT Bombay Distinguished Alumni Award
- 2014: The Asian Banker’s Best CEO in Asia Pacific Financial Markets
- 2015: Diamond Saber Award CEO of the Year
- 2015: RH Patil Financial Services Excellence Award
- 2015: Indian Business Leader of the Year, Horasis Interlaken/Switzerland
- 2016: Indian Institute of Management Kolkata Distinguished Alumni Award 2016
- 2017: Institute of Directors Distinguished Fellow
salary
Ashish earns Rs. 15,00,000 per month till 2022.
Facts/Trivia
- Ashish is known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India for his contributions to financial market policy, information technology, organized retail, telecommunications and social issues in India.
Ashish Chauhan uses new technology for stock trading
- While at NSE, he helped build the trading infrastructure of NSE and NSE-50 (Nifty). He was also responsible for setting up India’s first commercial satellite telecommunications network for NSE. He also proposed the concepts of National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCCL) and National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL).
- After he started working at BSE in 2009, he helped make BSE the fastest exchange in the world. He also introduced the concept of mobile trading. He is also responsible for BSE’s equities, currencies, interest rate derivatives and commodities businesses. In 2012, BSE made great progress because Ashish launched a small and medium-sized enterprise listing platform. In 2013, he founded BSE Star MF, a mutual fund distribution platform, which became India’s largest digital platform for mutual fund distribution in 2018.
- In 2017, he along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first international exchange, India International Exchange.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates India International Exchange
- In January 2017, the pending BSE IPO was completed.
- In 2013, the situation at the stock exchange had improved massively since 1875. In an interview, Ashish discussed the development of the stock exchange and said:
BSE is a 137-year-old stock exchange. I regard it as a new company that only carried out shareholding reform in 2007. We have a new management who is driving the business professionally. The results are showing. “
- He grew up as a very quiet, well-behaved child, so many of his relatives thought he would eventually become a monk.
- He said in an interview that he faced a language barrier while studying at IIT Bombay as he attended a Gujarati medium school and was not good at speaking or understanding English. He also added that instead of running away, he used the dictionary as his teacher to learn English.
- According to Ashish, he spends more than sixteen hours a day at work. In an interview, he spoke about this and said:
I start my day with prayer and end it with prayer and meditation. This is a very personal puja and part of my family tradition. I started working at 7am and got off work around 11pm. “
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