The National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) is a public trust established in 2006 by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the regulator of the securities markets in India. The institute carries out a wide range of capacity building activities at various levels aimed at enhancing the quality standards in securities markets.
Shri Sashi Krishnan brings nearly 40 years of experience in Pension Fund Management, Life Insurance, and Mutual Fund industries, with extensive expertise in equity and debt markets.
In his previous role, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Pension System Trust from January 2021 to January 2024. Prior to this, he was the CEO at Aditya Birla Sun Life Pension Management Limited. He has also held leadership roles at Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance Co. Ltd., Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Ltd., DBS Bank (Singapore), DBS Cholamandalam Asset Management Ltd., and Unit Trust of India.
He has been an active member of the Index Policy Committee of India Index Services & Products Ltd., the Capital Markets Committee of the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the Co-Chair of the Life Insurance Committee of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Shri Krishnan holds a BE (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering and an MSc (Hons.) in Economics from BITS, Pilani. He also has a Diploma in Management with a specialization in Finance from IGNOU and is a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB).
Mr. Sunil Kadam is the Registrar of National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), a capacity building initiative of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Mr. Kadam holds a degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) from University of Pune. Mr. Kadam is a Chief General Manager at SEBI. Prior to taking over as Registrar of NISM, Mr. Kadam was Regional Director of Northern Regional Office of SEBI. Mr. Kadam has joined SEBI in 1996 and during his tenure in SEBI he has worked in various departments in SEBI and handled the work relating to administration of MIIs, Inspection, Market Surveillance, Investigations, Corporate Governance, Issue management and policies related to these areas. He was also part of various committees in SEBI.
Dr. Rachana Baid is Professor at National Institute of Securities Markets. She has been teaching, consulting, and training in financial markets since 1996. She has been a visiting faculty with XLRI Jamshedpur, S.P. Jain Global School of Management, Mumbai, Singapore and Dubai. Earlier she has taught courses at IIM-Indore, NMIMs Mumbai, and few other management schools. She has worked with Indian Institute of Capital Markets (IICM) for 9 years from 2001 to 2010. At IICM she has conducted more than 200 workshops and training sessions for the professionals in the Indian capital market as well as for the participants from other countries. She has conducted training sessions for the officers of IAS, IRS, and CBI as well as fund managers and senior bankers from the private sector banks and mutual funds.
She has been associated with consultancy assignments for clients in the public sector & private sector. She was the member of a team constituted by BankWorld Inc, Washington, DC as a local capital market expert to assess the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) assistance to Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and its future technical assistance needs. She has worked on assignments for the government of India in Investor Education & Protection. She has been involved in consultancy/advisory assignments for UTI mutual fund and the Association of Mutual Funds in India. She was part of the secretariat to assist the panel for National Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance 2001.
She has done Ph.D. in finance (2001) and Masters in Commerce (1995) from Osmania University
She has about a dozen research papers to her credit in leading journals.
Dr. Jinesh has more than 30 years of experience in academics, consulting, and academic administration.
Jinesh is MBA with specialisation in Finance, Ph.D. in Management from Faculty of Management Studies (1994), The M.S. University of Baroda, and a CMA from Institute of Cost Accountants of India.
Before joining NISM, he managed an Advisory firm, Arham Advisors (2016-2021). It has undertaken assignments in domain of M&A, corporate valuation, Management Information Systems, etc.
He has served Indian Institute of Capital Markets, (IICM) (now merged with National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), for more than a decade including serving as Dean (1995-2007). He has also served as Senior Vice President at Financial Technologies Group, and as Head of its Knowledge Management subsidiary (2007-2014).
He has published in area of corporate governance, ownership and performance, and M&As. He has taught full courses in area of Finance and Strategy, like, M&A, corporate finance, corporate valuation, and corporate restructuring at various IIMs and institutions of national repute.
He has worked on assignments with various Ministries of Government of India and its committees. He has conducted executive education programmes and consultancy assignments for domestic and global capital market regulators, in area of governance, valuation, venture capital, securities markets, and knowledge management frameworks.
Dr. Kirti Arekar is currently working with National Institute of Securities Markets as a Professor. She has been in teaching, research, training and consulting in Data and Statistical Analysis since 2000. Dr. Kirti worked with K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management, Welingkar Institute of Management (WeSchool) and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Mumbai. She has been visiting faculty with SP Jain Global Institute of Management, Singapore and Manipal University, Dubai. She has conducted several training programs for corporates like BSE, NSE, BCCI, INS HAMLA, Lumiere, Mahindra & Mahindra and L&T etc. based on Decision Making, Statistics and Data Analysis etc. by using several Software’s i.e. SPSS, EXCEL, EXCEL Solver, MegaStat, Minitab, SAS, R, Python, SAS and QM3+ etc. She has 275 Research publications in International and National Journals. She has presented several Research Papers in many Universities like Harvard University, Manchester, University of Emirates, University of Wellington and Hull University etc.
She has done PhD. in Statistics in 2002 and Integrated Program in Business Analytics from IIM Indore. She has received an award for Best Research paper at Inter 3RD International conference on global independence and decision science, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, 2008; Best paper awarded by Global Economy and Finance Journal, Canada, 2013 & University of Boston, USA in 2012. Under her guidance two students was awarded Ph.D. degree.
Dr Kirti Arekar has been featured as the ‘Notable Women Personalities of India 2024’ on www.businesstalkz.com.
She was awarded as the Best Teacher Award for Excellence in Research & Teaching from Higher Education Forum in 2013; has been also awarded Fellowship from World Business Institute, Melbourne, Australia in 2013 and Best Researcher Award in Higher Education from K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai and Best Faculty Award in Teaching in Excellence from Bombay Management Association, BMA in 2019.
Dr. Dhiraj Jain is a Ph. D in Management and a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of India. He has a corporate experience of 10 years and an academic experience spanning nearly two decades. His areas of interest include Quantitative Techniques, Business Statistics, Investment & Portfolio Management, Mutual Funds & Financial Derivatives. He has been a Corporate trainer for Equity markets and Mutual Funds for various Financial Institutions, Mutual Funds and Broking Houses and others. He has taken various sessions on Statistics, Research Methodology, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management and Financial Derivatives for management professionals at Wipro, Infosys, Tata Motors, Citius Tech and the like. He is an avid researcher and has a number of research papers, case studies and publications to his credit. His book Marketing Techniques for Financial Inclusion and Development is also indexed in the Scopus database. He has presented papers in various National and International conferences and had also received the best paper award in many of them. He has been a Ph. D guide for the past 8 years. 5 students have completed their Ph. D under his guidance.
Dr. Rajesh Kumar is a skilled and qualified teacher of law with more than twenty-two years of experience in the field of law. After completing his LL.B. Degree from the Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi in 2001, he enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Delhi and practiced mainly in Civil, Writ, Commercial, and Criminal matters before the High Court of Delhi and District courts of Delhi.
Subsequently, he completed his LL.M. from the University of Delhi, cleared the U.G.C. NET Examination, and started his teaching career in 2005. He taught corporate and investment laws at various law colleges and universities starting from IMS Unison Law School, Dehradun and ICFAI Law School, Dehradun, VIPS (affiliated with G.G.S.I.P. University, Delhi), Amity Law School, Delhi (affiliated with G.G.S.I.P. University, Delhi) and National Law University, Ranchi. Before joining this institute as an Associate Professor in February 2018, he was working as Assistant Dean of NLU, Ranchi. He was promoted to Professor in October 2023.
During his teaching career of more than 18 years, he held various administrative responsibilities including the positions of Chief Proctor, Controller of Examination, and Assistant Registrar.
He completed his Ph.D. in securities law in the year 2012 from the University of Delhi.
He has written many articles and four books on different subjects, including his books on securities law (ISBN No- 978365983044, Satyam Law International, Delhi, 2015) and Competition Law (ISBN NO -9789382823520, Satyam Law International, Delhi, 2017). His areas of expertise include Corporate Law, Securities Law, Corporate Finance, Competition Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking and Insurance, and International Investment Law. He has also participated in various conferences and seminars organized by various institutions and has also been a speaker in many such conferences and seminars.
His teaching interest lies in various subjects and areas related to Securities Laws and regulations, Competition laws, corporate laws, Banking and Insurance, mergers and Acquisitions, and International Investment Laws. He teaches in various academic programs and courses conducted by NISM. Apart from teaching, he is actively involved in organizing training programs for the officers of SEBI, government officers, and the securities market regulator of the foreign jurisdiction. He is also engaged in developing Policy papers on various topics related to the financial markets.
Dr Jatin Trivedi is an Associate Professor at National Institute of Securities Markets. Before joining back NISM, he has worked as Nodal Officer for Queen Marry University of London, UK, and also Nodal Officer for Presidio Graduate School (Seattle and San Francisco – United States Campuses) as its program with Amity University. He has earned “Finance Guru” title and several awards for excellence in teaching the core courses for MBA graduates. MBA Finance and Global MBA programs during his teaching career for over two decades.
He holds Bachelor of Commerce in accounting & auditing, Bachelor of Education in Commerce (Position holder – specialization), Master of Commerce in accounting and financial management (Position holder – specialization), Master of Business Administrations in finance, G.I.T.W with Industrial Mathematics (First class first), DCA (First class first), Bachelor of Education in Commerce (Position holder in specialization) and Ph.D in Finance.
His research area includes Capital markets, International Relations, Corporate Finance, Financial Economics, and International Finance. He has been part of editorial board and invited reviewers in many reputed journals such as Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Journal of Perspective Financing and Regional Development, International Journal of Asian Social Science, Journal of Applied Finance, Academic Research Journal of Finance etc.
Many of his research work that has been published with reputed journals which indexed in ABDC category, Scopus, Web of Science, SCI such as Journal of Business Economics and Management, Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, Annals of Economic Review, Mathematical Applications in Science and Mechanics, International Journal of Economics and Statistics etc. along with national and international authors. He has presented his research work to many national and international conferences which also includes several prestigious European and American conferences including Harvard Conferences, Boston, USA.
He holds membership with Indian Accounting Association, Finance & Accounting Professionals London, Charted Financial Analysts Network, New York, USA, etc. At NISM, he teaches in the areas of Accounting, Finance and Banking to full time post-graduate students in Securities Markets (PGDM – SM) and PGCSM.
Dr. Kapil Shrimal is Associate Professor at National Institute of Securities Markets; he is having more than 13 years of experience of academics and 1-year experience of corporate. He has started his career with ICICI Prudential LIC and worked with Institutes like Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, Symbiosis University of Applied Science Indore, Marwadi University Rajkot, etc. His last assignment was with PIMR, Indore.
His main area of teaching and research is Financial Planning, Portfolio Management, Derivatives, Financial Modelling, Financial Management, etc. He has conducted many Investment Awareness Program (IAP’s) on behalf of SEBI, NSE and ICAI India.
Dr. Shrimal has received Best Faculty award by Dainik Bhaskar in the year 2012. He has also received Best PhD Thesis award by Jaipuria Institute on Management Indore in the year 2018. He has presented and published research papers in International and National reputes and published one book. Some of his research papers got Best Research Paper awards in International Conferences.
He is into the editorial board and reviewer member of International Journal of Accounting and Financial Management Research. He is also associated with various Universities as a member of Board of Studies, Academic Council and PhD examiner.
Dr. Shrimal has done his PhD in Management (Finance) form Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. He has also cleared UGC-NET and RPSC-SET in Management in the year 2012. Has done his MBA (Finance) and BBA from Devi Ahiliya University, Indore He has cleared many NISM certificates, NCFM modules and other certificate courses.
Dr. Inamdar is a faculty member at NISM. Prior to NISM, he worked for Indian Institute of Capital Markets, Institute of Cost Accountants of India chapter’s and IIT-Bombay CSE.
He has 11 years of experience in teaching & research and two years of corporate experience.
Dr. Inamdar has several publications in indexed journals and has won two best research paper awards in international conferences. He has conducted a various programs for international delegates as well as training programs for SEBI, RBI, IRS, IES officers and market intermediaries.
At NISM, Dr. Inamdar teaches ESG finance, quantitative methods and data analyses, derivatives options trading strategies (through algo trading simulator) and technical analysis. He is a member of the organising committee of NISM conferences. He has completed M.com, MBA (Finance), CWA (Final), and PhD in the field of ESG finance from Mumbai University
Dr. ShreyasVyas is an expert in business laws with a background in civil laws. He has completed his BALLB (Hons) from Nirma University. Then he completed his LLM in (Corporate Law) from Hidayatullah National Law University and subsequently his Ph.D. from Bhagwant University in area of Company Law. He also enrolled himself as an Advocate in Rajasthan State Bar Council and appeared before Hon’ble Rajasthan High Court for various cases.
In his span of more than 6 years he has taught various subjects like Company Law, Capital market Regulations, Arbitration Law, Civil Procedure Code, Drafting, Pleading etc in universities such as Hidayatullah National Law University and G D Goenka University etc. During his tenure, he has also been working in various administrative positions like Faculty Advisor for Moot Court Committee, internship placements, Program chair etc.
His written articles in various areas of Law like Company Law, Intellectual Property Laws, Contract Laws, Technology Laws, Human Rights Laws etc are published in various journals of National and International Repute. He has also participated in various Faculty Development Programs, Conferences organized various institutions and coached students & judged various Moot Court Competitions of National and International Repute in various areas of Laws.
His areas of teaching interests & research area includes subjects and area relating to Corporate Law, Securities market, Merger and Acquisition Law, Arbitration law, Technology laws and their inter-disciplinary implementation in various area of policy and Law.
Suneel Sarswat is an adjunct faculty member at NISM. He specializes in advanced programming, data analytics, machine learning, deep learning, fraud detection, and computational finance.
With over 8 years of full-time teaching experience and additional roles as a visiting faculty member, Suneel has conducted numerous workshops for working professionals in computational finance and machine learning. He has trained officers from RBI, SEBI, exchanges, banks, and other financial institutions. Previously, he worked as a research analyst at Bank of America for over two years and served as a consultant for Decimal Point Analytics for more than 3 years.
His work has been presented at international conferences in theoretical computer science. Currently, his research focuses on applications of formal methods in regulations. In addition to academic research, he has contributed to various regulatory research projects involving fraud detection, machine learning, and data analysis.
• PhD in Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai Thesis: ‘A formal approach to exchange design and regulation’
• Postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai
• Master’s degree in Applied Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai
Mr. Mehta is a Chartered Accountant and he has done his P.G.D. in Securities Markets, He has around 20 years of experience across Corporate Finance, Investment Banking (Private Equity, M&A), and Debt Arranging & Syndication.
Currently, he provides Virtual CFO services to several large clients and offers expertise in debt syndication, valuation services, and GST advisory. Previously, he held senior roles at Aditya Birla Finance, where he managed a portfolio of over INR 3,500 million, and at Karvy Investment Banking, leading deal origination and execution.
Mr. Mehta has a strong track record in deal advisory, having worked with high-profile clients across sectors such as infrastructure, retail, and finance.
Mr. Kanchan holds a post-graduate degree in finance from JBIMS and is certified in various NISM modules, including Equity Derivatives, Currency Derivatives, Fixed Income Securities, Research Analyst, and Investment Advisor.
With over 30 years of experience in capital markets, he has held leadership roles in Institutional Derivatives at top broking firms and brings expertise in areas such as Institutional Dealing, Derivatives Research, Proprietary Trading, and Depository Operations.
As a visiting faculty member at esteemed management institutes such as NMIMS, N.L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies and Research, XLRI (Jamshedpur), and K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management and Research, Mr. Vijay has regularly taught core finance subjects, including Derivatives and Risk Management, Fixed Income Securities, International Finance, Forex Markets, Financial Risk Management, and Corporate Finance.
Mr. Kanchan has trained over 8,000 market participants as an NISM empanelled CPE trainer and has conducted MDPs for organizations such as SEBI, SBI MF, ICICI Bank, and Axis Bank. He is also a visiting faculty at several leading management institutes across India.
Mr Suresh Narayan is a Commerce graduate from Mumbai University and an Associate member of The Institute of Cost Accountants of India. He has more than30 years of corporate / teaching experience. He has worked in leadership positions with various market infrastructure institutions like SHCIL, NSDL and NSE. Further, he has worked with GSCs of multinational banks like JP Morgan and Northern Trust.
In the past, he has been a speaker at various national / international conferences on topics related to capital markets. He is currently associated with academic institutions like NMIMS and ITM as a Visiting faculty. He is also a member of the Index Advisory Committee of MCX since 2019. His teaching interests include Depository Operations, Index services, Secondary market and other areas of Capital markets.
Mr. Trivedi holds a BE (Instrumentation and Control) and an MBA (Marketing), and brings over 30 years of experience in capital markets.
He has conducted over 1,700 workshops, training more than 400,000 participants, including professionals from regulatory bodies, employees of asset management companies (AMCs), insurance companies, banks, distribution firms, mutual fund distributors (MFDs), registered investment advisors (RIAs), students, and the general public.
Mr. Trivedi has authored several books, including Moneywise – Perspectives for Women and Personal Finance Lessons from the ICU. He has also written over 1,000 articles for mainstream media and Co-authored NISM Series V-A, V-B, V-C certification workbooks and contributed to various NISM projects, including developing certification programs and being part of the examination committees for multiple certification exams.
His work has been recognized through various awards, including:
– Featured as one of 50 Glorious Gujaratis by Chitralekha magazine (2019).
– Recognized as one of India’s 25 best finance teachers (2021).
– Awarded the Guru Gaurav Puraskar at the Artha Mitra Gurukulam National Conference (2023).
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