A Velumani
Motilal Oswal
Chairman and Managing Director, MOFSL

Motilal Oswal is the Chairman and Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. (MOFSL). He is a Chartered Accountant and started the business along with co-promoter, Raamdeo Agrawal in 1987.He has served on the Governing Board of the BSE, Indian Merchant’s Chamber (IMC) and has also served on various committees of BSE, NSE, SEBI and CDSL. For his work and contribution to the capital markets, Mr. Oswal has been felicitated with several awards and accolades including Excellent Business Achiever in Financial Services’ Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Special Contribution award to Indian Capital Markets’ Award by Zee Business, The Hall of Fame for Excellence in Franchising’ by Franchising World Magazine and many more. He has authored two books of quotations on ‘The Essence of Business & Management’ and ‘The Essence of Life’.

A Velumani
A Velumani
CEO Thyrocare

A visionary and an able business administrator, Dr. A Velumani proves amply clear to industry that “Focus gives Success”. Born to a landless farmer in a small village near Coimbatore, South India, today he owns and operates Thyrocare, an industry leader and a brand worth Rs. 3300 crores. Began as a Mathematician, he acquired his Ph.D. in Thyroid Biochemistry from BARC/ Mumbai University. He worked for 14 years in BARC as a research scientist and a teacher and later became an administrator in business. He is hilarious when it comes to educating and motivating Youth in Entrepreneurship.

Smita Bhagat
Smita Bhagat
Head, Branch Banking; Co-head, Ecommerce Vertical, HDFC Bank

Ms. Smita Bhagat is Management Graduate with banking experience of almost 20 years. She is at present Senior Executive Vice President looking after Branch Banking Business for North India and South Mumbai and also co-heads E-Commerce Business for the Bank. A yoga practioner and a fitness freak, Ms. Bhagat is a keen observer. Exercise and travel are the two things that keep her energized throughout the year.

Ashish Chauhan
Ashish Chauhan
Bombay Stock Exchange, Managing Director & CEO

Ashish is an IIM Calcutta alumni and has more than 3 decades of work experience. Ashish currently works as the MD & CEO of BSE. He is one of the founders of India's National Stock Exchange ("NSE") where he worked from 1992 to 2000. He is best known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India. He also created several path breaking frameworks including Nifty index, NSE certifications in financial markets etc. From 2000 to 2009, he worked as the President and Chief Information Officer of Reliance group and also acted as the CEO of the cricket team Mumbai Indians in its formative years.

Dhirendra Kumar
Dhirendra Kumar
Founder & CEO Value Research

Dhirendra Kumar is India's foremost expert on mutual funds. Mr. Kumar is the founder and CEO of Value Research, India's leading independent provider of mutual fund information and research. Over the last decade and a half, he has gained a unique perspective by closely observing the birth and growth of the modern Indian fund industry and by interacting with and helping thousands of investors. Mr. Kumar took a Bachelor of Business Studies from the University of Delhi in 1990. He founded Value Research immediately after finishing college. He has followed no other profession.

Neha Punater
Neha Punater
Partner and Head - Digital Strategy, Innovation and FinTech

Neha has a total of 19 years of consulting experience spanning multiple organizations – KPMG, PwC, IBM Consulting Services, Coopers & Lybrand and ANZ Grindlays bank. Neha has worked with global and local financial institutions and banks as they leverage technology for differentiation in the market and becoming more customers centric. She has also been actively collaborating with the start-up communities, accelerators and academia to create a thriving FinTech ecosystem in India.

Kalpana Balasubramanian
Kalpana Balasubramanian
Partner and Head, Robotics and Cognitive AutomationManagement Consulting

Kalpana has over 20 years of experience in Finance and IT transformation in GICs and extended global enterprises across Banking, IT and FMCG sectors by using technology to improve processes and increase efficiencies. She is the lead for Robotics and Cognitive Automation Solutions for KPMG in India. She has been proactively managing change in skills and is active in the industry circles and academia. She has also authored a published point of view – The Ro-Man Era

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Vijay Kumar Goel
CEO, MOPWM

Vijay Goyal is a qualified Chartered Accountant (Rank holder) and also a Cost Accountant. He started his career as a management trainee with Birla Global Finance. He spent 11 years with Aditya Birla Group Financial Services where he worked with Birla Global Finance, Birla Mutual Fund and Birla Sun Life Distribution Company. He was the head of insurance distribution from 2002 to 2004. He then moved to head the PCG and Direct Retail group of Birla Sun Life Distribution. He is a veteran in the Industry and brings in an ocean of experience and ideas with himself. Vijay joined MOFSL in 2007 and heads the Private Wealth Management business of MOFSL.

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Aashish Somaiyaa
Managing Director & CEO, MOAMC

Mr. Somaiyaa holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Polymer Science and a Masters in Management Studies in Finance from NMIMS, Mumbai. Aashish brings with him rich and varied experience - with more than 13 years in sales and distribution, channel management, product development and institutional sales from ICICI Prudential AMC and a brief stint at project management with Bharti AXA Investment Managers. His last assignment was with ICICI Prudential AMC, as Senior VP & Head - Retail Business where he was responsible for sales, distribution and product development of Mutual Fund, PMS and Real Estate offerings through retail distribution, banking and private wealth management channels across India and UAE. Mr. Somaiyaa joined Motilal Oswal Group in 2013 and is the Managing Director & CEO at Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company Ltd.

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Raamdeo Agrawal
Joint Managing Director, MOFSL

Raamdeo Agrawal is the man behind the strong research capabilities at Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd. He is the Joint Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited (MOFSL) and also the co-founder of Motilal Oswal Securities Limited (MOSL). A keen believer of Warren Buffets Investment philosophy and practitioner of the QGLP philosophy, his wealth creation insights and decades-rich experience have played a pivotal role in MOFSL, transforming it from a small stock broking firm to a well-diversified financial services company. Mr. Agarwal is also known as the Warren Buffet of India in the industry. In 1986, he wrote the book ‘Corporate Numbers Game’, along with co-author, Ram K Piparia. He has featured on `Wizards of Dalal Street on CNBC TV 18` and also compiled a book of investing insights called ‘Wealth Creation Thoughts’. He was also conferred with the ‘Special contribution to Indian Capital Market Award’ by Zee Business in 2011

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Ajay Menon
MD & CEO - Broking and Distribution, MOSL

Ajay Menon is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and has done his graduation from N.M. College of Commerce, Mumbai. He started his career with Sesa Seat Information Systems and joined MOSL in 1998 as a Manager. With his experience of over 18 years in Capital Markets, he currently is the CEO – MOSL and heads the Broking & Distribution business. He is also the Whole Time Director of MOSL.

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Navin Agarwal
Managing Director - MOFSL

Navin Agarwal is the Managing Director of Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited. He is responsible for the Institutional Broking and Investment Banking Businesses and has been instrumental in building a market leading position in the Institutional Broking business. Under his leadership, the firm has been rated as The Best Indian Brokerage House by Asia money. He started his career as a Senior Analyst with Insight Asset Management in 1994. He is affiliated with prestigious organizations like Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Institute of Cost and Works Accountant of India, Institute of Company Secretaries of India and CFA Institute, Virginia. Mr. Agarwal has also co-authored a Book ‘India’s Money Monarchs’ featuring interactions with India’s leading investment managers.

Vivek Bindra
Vivek Bindra
Motivational Speaker

Mr. Vivek Bindra is globally acclaimed Motivational Speaker and the Founder Director of Global ACT Pvt. Ltd. He has been an Executive Coach for more than 100 Top CEO of India. He has been awarded as Best Motivational Speaker in India by The International Association Of Lions Club. He inspires and encourages over 6,00,000 people, and make them realize their true potential.

Mohit Rao
Mohit Rao
Wolf of Dalal Street

Mohi Rao is also known as Wolf of Dalal Street and can read what is going on in your Mind. Using his skills he have made headlined by predicting the exact closing of the BSE Sensex, Hypnotized over 25000 people worldwide and even used Telepathy to drive a car blindfolded. He has performed this Show in every major Indian city and overseas in Russia, Srilanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the USA.