Shankar Jadhav is Chief Strategy Officer at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Asia’s oldest stock exchange and the world’s largest with more than 5700 entities listed. It is also the world’s fastest exchange with a response time of 6 microseconds.

Besides Strategy, he also leads the Legal Commercial, Marketing Corporate Communications Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & infrastructure efforts such as Data Centers at BSE.

Shankar Jadhav has been and is also a Director on Boards of Bank of India Shareholding Ltd., BSE Investments Ltd, BFSI Sector Skill Council, Marketplace Technologies, Marketplace Tech Infra Services and BSE CSR Integrated Foundation. He is also a member of committees & working groups at the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), FICCI, India International Exchange of BSE, BSE International Clearing Corp, IMC, etc. and been on the advisory panels such as Interpol World, CEO GBCI and is also on the top 100 CXO list.

In his stint with India’s largest industrial group, he was involved in strategy formulation, execution & business development of India’s largest telecom project that brought about the Telecom Revolution in India and was instrumental in helping set up the pan-India network. Other past stints include MNCs & blue-chip organizations like Siemens, RPG group, Wadia group, Great Eastern Shipping and Goldshield Pharma Plc and CEO of FMCG & agro-based co.

Shankar has over two decades of senior management experience in MNCs and leading Corporates in Infrastructure like Telecom/Energy/IT, Consumer Goods & Financial services. He also served in capacities as CEO/Advisor/Mentor as well as Board member.

He has been a visiting faculty across India teaching Marketing & Sales, Strategy & Finance and has trained over 2000 students including senior executives and Board Directors over the past two decades. He has also been a keynote speaker and panelist at various conferences and seminars on various subjects such as Leadership, Cybersecurity, Identity Theft, Forensics, Law, Fintech, etc.

Shankar is a B. Tech (Elec Engg) from IIT Bombay and MBA (Finance & Marketing) from IIM Ahmedabad. He is a Lead Assessor certified by BSIQA – UK and a Chartered Engineer.