Mr. Deepak Parekh’s vision and business acumen transformed HDFC into India’s leading financial services company with presence in banking, asset management, life insurance, general insurance, real estate venture fund, education loans and education. He’s on the board of several leading corporations across several sectors, and has always been willing to share his ideas and experiences to formulate reform policies. Among many, Mr. Parekh was conferred with ‘Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honour’, and was the first international recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award by Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is the recipient of one of the highest civilian awards, the Padma Bhushan.

Mr. Rajnish Kumar has served as Managing Director, National Banking Group, and Managing Director, Compliance & Risk of SBI. Mr Kumar has held the distinction of heading several key assignments across various business verticals, including two overseas assignments in Canada and the UK. He has held important positions, including Deputy General Manager, Pune Zone; General Manager (NW-II), Mumbai; Regional Head, SBI (UK); Chief General Manager, North East Circle and Chief General Manager, Project Finance. Mr Kumar is also the Deputy Chairman of Indian Bank’s Association.

Mr. Rashesh Shah has more than two decades of experience in financial markets, and has built Edelweiss into one of India’s leading diversified financial services conglomerates. President of FICCI, he is a regular commentator on macro-economic policies. Mr Rashesh is also part of the High Level Task Force on Public Credit Registry for India as well as the Insolvency Law Committee. Previously, he was also on the Executive Committee of the National Stock Exchange and on the committee to review Insider Trading Regulations set up by the Securities and Exchange Board of India - the country's capital markets regulator.

Mr. Ramesh Damani is worth more than a billion dollars. He started investing in the stock market when Sensex was at 600 points. He is the chairman of Avenue Supermarts Ltd. and a member at BSE Ltd. He is also on the Board of Directors at Aptech Ltd. and Ramesh S Damani Finance Pvt Ltd.

Mr. A. Balasubramanian brings with him over 26 years of experience in the mutual fund industry, both in fixed income and equity. He oversees more than US$ 36.95 bn Assets under Management at Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC which is the third largest Asset Manager in India. He also oversees global mandates through its subsidiary company in Singapore and Dubai, having assets of more than USD 2.01 billion (as of May 2018), apart from overseeing Alternate Investment Funds, Real Estate and PMS. Mr Balasubramanian is on the Board of Governors of SEBI established National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), chairman and director of the AMFI (Association of Mutual Funds of India) Board.

Mr Dasgupta is the CEO at ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited since 2009. He began his stint with ICICI in 1992 in the Projects & Corporate Finance Division. Since then, he has held key leadership positions in diverse business areas of ICICI Bank. He has been a Director of ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited since May 1, 2009. He served as Executive Director of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd. from October 24, 2006 to April 30, 2009. He served as an Executive Director of ICICI Bank Ltd., since October 24, 2006. He served as a Director of ICICI Bank UK PLC.

Mr. Tarun has operating experience across a variety of functional areas including strategy, operations, marketing, business development and product management. Prior to joining Matrix, Mr. Davda was the India Country Manager and Board Member at StepOut.com, a venture-backed startup. Under his leadership, StepOut became India's No.1 online dating site with over four million users. He has also established BigRock.com, India's No. 1 provider of domain name registration and other web services. He started his career as a developer at Infosys where he was responsible for providing IT consulting and outsourcing services to Fortune-100 US clients. During this time, was instrumental in winning and executing a $25 million deal.

Ms. Upasana Taku co-founded One Mobikwik Systems Private Limited in 2008 and served as its Head of Business Development & Merchant Operations. She founded Zaak ePayment Services Pvt Ltd in 2010 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. She is also the CEO of Zaakpay.com.

Mr Santosh Nair is the editor of Moneycontrol and is responsible for monitoring and supervising the editorial content on the site as well as contributes through write-ups on different sectors such as markets, economy, banking and corporates. With over two decades of experience across print, newswire & digital mediums, he has extensively covered stories on market trends, regulators and market participations. He had also authored the hugely popular stock market column titled ‘Street Signs’ at Business Standard. Santosh was a part of the founding team of Millennium Broadcast, a website which gave live audio coverage of the stock market during trading hours, back in 2000.