Rahul Petkar

Rahul Petkar, President and CEO of Mississauga based Ishkan Inc., is a business leader with over thirty years experience in the financial services and technology sectors spanning Asia, Middle East and North America. Currently, he is also the CEO of Intellect Design Arena Chile Ltda, a leading fintech, providing innovative payment and banking solutions

in Latin America.

Rahul founded Polaris Canada, a banking technology company that serves all major Canadian banks and was responsible for scaling it up to over 250 employees. At TD Waterhouse, as Director International Development, he was a core member of the team responsible for the global expansion of TD’s brokerage business to Japan, UK, Luxembourg and Hong Kong. In the past, he has also worked with Citibank and Merrill Lynch in the business and operations areas.

Rahul has been a speaker and a panelist on topics pertaining to financial services, global sourcing and technology on various occasions including at the Toronto Financial Services Alliance and the Schulich Business School. In 2013, Rahul was appointed by the Mayor of Mississauga to the Mississauga International Partnership Program and to the Mississauga Economic Advisory Board where he currently serves as Chairman. He is a Member of the Institute of Corporate Directors in Toronto and a Charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the largest global not for profit association supporting entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.

Rahul is a Bachelor of Engineering ( Mechanical) from VNIT, Nagpur and has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore