Shri Sundararaman Ramamurthy is a highly motivated leader and consistent performer with a successful track record of 38 years and strong passion to lead a financial institution and motivate teams in furthering business, governance, and control. He is a Cost Accountant and member of Indian Institute of Bankers along with being a Bachelor of Science.

His diverse experience in the Indian financial markets and banking system includes leading large and complex multi-disciplinary teams, Stake Holder Management, High Corporate Governance Standards, Strong interface with Technology in innovation, implementation and maintenance of complex systems, Strategy Development, Regulatory Relationship Management, Business Development, Stringent Compliance Standards, Organizational Development & Motivation and Business Excellence to name a few.

Shri Sundararaman Ramamurthy, until recently was the MD & Chief Operating Officer in Indian arm of Bank of America (BANA) where his responsibilities included global governance and control of the banking entity in India and the securities segment. He was also a part of various Board/Leadership forums at Bank of America.

With over 20 years of work experience at National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE) and as a senior member of the NSE team since its inception, he was responsible for significant transformation of the Indian capital markets for over two decades. He has also worked with leading Public Sector Banks viz. Industrial Development Bank of India, State Bank of India and Indian Overseas Bank.

Shri Sameer has more than 25 years of experience with a deep understanding of traded equity & debt assets classes, underlying physical commodity markets, and global Index / FX / interest rate / commodity derivatives in both exchange and OTC markets. In his current role as Chief Business Officer at BSE, he spearheads the entire BSE group’s Business Development and Marketing function which includes trading and distribution functions, as well as the strategic ventures of the exchange. Under his leadership, BSE has seen a revival of market share in tradition business segments such as equity, equity derivatives, currency derivatives and fixed income segments. He is also instrumental in BSE’s business expansion and leadership in newer areas such as interest rate options, and commodity derivatives markets.

In addition, he also heads corporate communications for the BSE group as the exchange accelerates to the next stage of its growth journey and into the digital era. He is responsible for the group's external and internal communications including media relations, crisis management, digital marketing, communication strategies, and image & brand management globally.

He was instrumental in conceptualization and setting up of India’s first International Exchange in GIFT CITY IFSC – “INDIA International Exchange “– where he oversees the Business Development and Marketing function. In a very short time, India INX has witnessed a single day turnover of over US$ 30 billion and a market share of over 90 percent. He is also credited with the launch of first of its kind outbound trading platform – ‘India INX GA’ in GIFT CITY IFSC, for Indian Investors to access Global Exchanges like CME, LME, ICE etc.

Due to his rich experience and professional skillset, he is part of various committees and working groups of the Government of India, regulatory bodies like SEBI / IFSCA / Niti Aayog, and Global bodies and associations. He has played a key role in the conceptualizing Spot Exchange for Gold in both GIFT city and India Domestic Zone. He has played a pivotal role in the launch of World’s first ‘Options in Goods’ and Almond futures contract in commodity segment, and the electronic gold receipts (EGR) in India. The Almond futures contract was awarded as the Best Innovative contract of the year by FOW London in December 2022.

In his previous assignment as Senior Vice President (PKMT & Business Development) at MCX, he was one of the core founding team members responsible for the setup of the commodity exchange in India. He is credited for successful launch of the flagship contracts - Gold, Silver, WTI Crude Oil and Copper contracts at MCX. The Gold Petal contract launched on April 18, 2011, was awarded as the Best Innovative contract of the year by FOW Singapore. During his tenure at MCX, he was also instrument in successfully launching and heading business functions at domestic exchanges like MCX and MCX-SX, and International Exchanges including:

• Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX - Dubai)
• Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX – Singapore)
• Bahrain Financial Exchange (BFX – Bahrain)
• Global Board of Trade (GBoT – Mauritius)
• Bourse Africa (Botswana)

He began his career with K J Investors Services (I) PVT LTD, an affiliate of Cargill Investors Services, Illinois, Chicago, USA as Senior Financial Analyst.

He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of several Group Companies.

He is considered a credible and trusted domain expert in diverse areas ranging from commodities trading, Index development, hedging strategies, financial product design & launch, and physical market outreach. He was awarded the “India UAE business Ambassador of the year 2018” at Abu Dhabi for his achievements in financial markets globally. He is Science Graduate and MBA in Finance from Mumbai University.

Shri Subhash Kelkar is a Chief Information Officer for Bombay Stock Exchange. In his 30+ years of Technology and Digital career, he has held many senior management positions primarily in Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Telecom domains. He has led multiple digital transformations and has experience in distributed, multi-vendor and multi-location deliveries. His expertise lies in creating and implementing tech and digital strategy, website/mobile applications design and development, data analytics, infrastructure, cloud migrations and cybersecurity.

He is Bachelor of Engineering from Mumbai University and completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Software Technology from NCST, Juhu. He was part of one year management development program at Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad.

He has worked in multiple organizations like ICICI Securities, IIFL Holdings, CMS Infosystems Limited, Tech Mahindra, TCS, etc.

Shri Deepak Goel is the Chief Financial Officer of exchange heading finance, accounting, treasury and taxation functions. He currently serves as member of the Board of Directors of several Group Companies.

Deepak has rich and diverse experience of 20 plus years of working in different functional areas in multiple industry including Financial services, Telecom and Management Consultancy. He has previously worked as CFO & Compliance Officer of Kotak Mahindra Investments ltd and handled varied other roles with Kotak Bank group. He has also worked in other organizations like Edelweiss, Bharti Airtel, GE-SBI Cards JV and AF Ferguson & Co. He has been instrumental in establishing multiple functions and building up teams from the ground up.

Deepak is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of Delhi.

Shri Kersi Tavadia has over 30 years of experience in the area of Application Systems/ IT Infrastructure development and management, managing all aspects of IT operations in Financial Services, Capital markets and manufacturing companies. He has played a leading role in transforming BSE into the fastest exchange in the country.

He is instrumental in promoting, adaption of Open Source technologies and has successfully deployed one of the largest Data Warehouse on Open source platform.

He has provided technical leadership & architectural vision in implementation of Mission Critical Applications across the organization including IT Infrastructure, Web portals, web based and non-web based customized solutions.

He is amongst the Pioneers to implement single-window Multi-Exchange online trading systems to facilitate trading across multiple asset classes.

Shri Neeraj Kulshrestha heads the regulatory functions of the exchange including membership compliance, surveillance, inspection, investigation, regulatory communication, investor services, listing compliance and regulatory legal.

At BSE he was earlier responsible for Business Development, Trading, Membership and Listing Operations and Development.

He has about 27 years experience in Capital markets, which includes Securities Markets and General Insurance.

Prior to BSE he was an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley India for 10 years. He was earlier with National Stock Exchange and has managed various functions like Trading Operations, Inspection and Investigation, Futures and Options Clearing and Trading. He was also the CEO of India Index Services Ltd. and Dotex International Ltd..

He has completed his Bachelors in Computer Science from Delhi University and a MBA (Finance) from Indore University.

Smt. Prajakta Powle heads the secretarial functions of the Exchange and its subsidiaries. She has a rich experience of 14 years in the field of corporate governance, compliance, regulatory and corporate secretarial. She represents BSE on the Secretarial Standards Board (SSB) constituted by the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).

She started her professional career with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) where she led secretarial functions of key subsidiaries including Non-Deposit Accepting Non-Banking Financial companies. She also played a significant role in conceptualisation, preparation and implementation of a comprehensive Audit Manual. She has also worked and managed secretarial functions at the JSW group and Times group.

Being 7th All-India ranking Company Secretary of June 2005- Final Exams batch, Prajakta also holds Commerce and law degree from University of Mumbai.

Shri Girish Joshi heads the Listing and Trading Development of the Exchange.

He has worked with ICICI Bank Group for 10 years. At ICICI Bank Group he worked in various areas like ICICIDirect.com, Treasury Mid Office and in the area of Regulatory Reporting and Monitoring at CFO office of the Bank.

He was also one of the earliest core team members who were involved in the set-up of National Stock Exchange (NSE). During 7 years at NSE he worked in Wholesale Debt Market and Post Trade functions.

He was also a member of Corporate Bonds and Securitization Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC) of Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) of India. He has represented BSE in various sub groups formed by SEBI for market developments like Regulatory Framework for Index Providers, IPO – T+3 listing, Development of CBLO type products for Corporate Bonds, Listing of REITs and InVit, Primary Market Group of MDAC, PMAC Sub Group on Review of Book Building Framework etc.

He has also represented BSE on the Secretarial Standard Board (SSB) and Corporate Governance Award Expert Group formed by the Institute of Company Secretary of India (ICSI). Currently he is also co-opt member of Western India Regional Council of ICSI. He represents BSE at Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative of the United Nations and various sub committee of CII for Capital Market development.

Shri Girish Joshi is Chartered Accountant as well as a Cost Accountant by qualification.

Mr. Khushro Bulsara is the Chief Risk Officer at BSE and is responsible for risk management across all risk vectors. He also heads the Investors Protection Fund of BSE.

In his 33 years of work experience, he has spent over 27 years with BSE and has rich experience with several departments of the Exchange such as Surveillance, Inspection, Clearing & Settlement, Debt, Derivatives, Mutual Fund business and Listing Compliance. He was responsible for setting up the Exchange’s popular Mutual Fund platform called StAR MF in 2009 and since 2012 to 2020, he was heading the listing compliance and legal regulatory departments at BSE. While heading Listing Compliance he has represented BSE and spoken at several OECD conferences on corporate governance.

Mr. Bulsara was a member of the Accounting Standards Board of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) for the year 2019 and represented BSE on the IMC Corporate Governance Committee, 2019-20. He was also a member of the Committee appointed by SEBI to study existing regulatory framework of related party transactions and recommend changes therein.

Mr. Bulsara is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant, Company Secretary and LL.B.

Sushri Kamala K is the Chief Regulatory Officer (Compliance Officer under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations) Regulations, 2018) heading the Regulatory functions of the Exchange including Membership and Listing Compliance, Surveillance and Investigation, Inspection and Enforcement.

At BSE Sushri Kamala was earlier heading the Enterprise Risk Management across various vectors of risk as Chief Risk officer. She has rich and diverse experience of more than 33 years in the areas of Finance. She has been long associated with financial markets in general and MII space in particular performing various roles. She has worked in multiple organisations like PFC, IIM-B, BgSE, BgSE Financials, Invest smart, NSE, Edelweiss Group. She has also been part of various reforms in capital market, actively participating in policy making through various Committees constituted by Regulators and stock Exchanges.