Bio

Shilpa Kumar is the Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Securities Ltd, India's largest integrated financial services firm. ICICI Securities offers a wide range of services including investment banking, institutional broking, retail broking, private wealth management, and financial product distribution. Prior to ICICI Securities, Shilpa led the Global Markets and Proprietary Trading business at ICICI Bank and was responsible for transforming it into one of the largest treasury businesses in the country. Shilpa’s career spans more than 27 years in a wide variety of roles within ICICI Bank including strategy, corporate finance and project finance. Shilpa is a director on the Boards of ICICI Securities Primary Dealership and National E-Governance Services Ltd. (NeSL). Shilpa has also been nominated to be a member of the SEBI’s (Securities and Exchange Board of India) Corporate Bonds and Securitisation Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC). SEBI is the apex regulatory body for capital markets. She also served as the Chairperson on the FIMMDA (Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India) Board and was a member of the Managing Committee of the Foreign Exchange Dealers’ Association of India. She has also served on numerous committees constituted by the RBI and the Government of India, notably the RBI’s Mohanty Committee which was mandated to review and evolve a policy framework for monetary policy, the RBI's Working Group on Taxation Practices for Financial Instruments in India, RBI Committee on Financial Benchmarks etc.