Bio

Mr. Rashesh Shah is Chairman and CEO, Edelweiss Group, one of India’s leading diversified financial conglomerates with businesses ranging across Credit Businesses (Structured Collateralised Credit, Wholesale and Retail Mortgage, Distressed Assets Credit, SME Finance, Agri and Rural Finance and other loans), Non-Credit Businesses (Wealth Management, Asset Management, Capital Markets, Agri Services and Balance Sheet Management Unit) and Life Insurance. Rashesh co-founded Edelweiss in 1996, which has since grown into one of India’s leading diversified financial services conglomerates, providing a broad range of financial products and services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, institutions and individuals. Edelweiss today has an asset base of over Rs. 33,000 crore and a net worth of nearly Rs 4,400 crore. The Group has 259 offices in 127 cities with headquarters in Mumbai, India. Rashesh is passionate about financial services and the role it can play in translating India’s vast savings into investments; thereby powering economic growth and development. Under his leadership, Edelweiss has combined technology, innovation and growth oriented entrepreneurship with a strong focus on risk management to become one of the more successful, stable and well respected financial services companies in India. He is closely involved in EdelGive Foundation, Edelweiss’s philanthropy arm, providing strategic oversight and advice, and is particularly passionate about charities involving sports and education. A regular commentator on macro- economic policies, development matters and financial markets in the mainline and financial media, Rashesh serves on the Boards of various companies and public institutions. He has previously been on the Executive Committee of the National Stock Exchange and also on the SEBI (Stock Exchange Board of India) committee to review Insider Trading Regulations. He is currently the Vice President of FICCI, which is India’s Apex Industry association. An MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Rashesh also holds a Diploma in International Trade from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. A voracious reader, a fitness enthusiast and an avid runner, Rashesh continues to participate in marathons across the globe.