PH Ravikumar

The first Indian to be honoured with a fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, London, and currently the only non-European on the institution's global board of directors, Mr. Ravikumar has had a distinguished career over his forty-eight years in the financial services industry in India. After twenty-two years at Bank of lndia, he joined the founding team at ICIci bank and built the treasury and corporate banking functions over ten years. He then moved on to become the founding MD and CEO of NCDEX Ltd. one of the largest exchanges in India and thereafter as the founding MD and CEO of Invest Asset Reconstruction Co. Till recently, he also chaired the Board of Directors at Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd. (BFIL), the largest micro-finance lending entity in India.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors at Bharat Forge Ltd. the largest forging company in the world. Over the years, he has held board membership of several other entities namely., EScorts Ltd., Aditya Birla Capital Ltd., UTI Retirement Solutions, Utkarsh Small Finance Bank, Aditya Birla Private Equity advisors, Federal Bank, Eveready Industries, L&T Mutual Fund and so on. As if that is not a handful, Mr. Ravikumar has also co-founded Vastu Housing Finance Corp. Ltd. where he is driving passionately his mission of affordable housing for all and is also in the midst of the data revolution as the chairman of NSE Data & Analytics India. Ltd., a 1006 subsidiary of National Stock Exchange (NSE) Ltd. They are privileged to have access to his unmatchable combination of experience and expertise as a guiding beacon for them to fulfill their mission of data democracy in India.