Mr. Feroze Chandra
Editor in Chief
Mr. Feroze Chandra has over 30 years experience as a journalist, including 20 years
in real-time and screen-based news. He was the founding managing editor of CRISIL
MarketWire, where he worked from 2001 to 2006, and NewsWire18. Earlier, he headed
the South Asia editorial operations of US-based Bridge News and was deputy general
manager of the Press Trust of India, heading its commercial news services. He has
a Masters in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.
Mr. Karthikeyan K S
Vice President
Mr. Karthikeyan has over 16 years of domain expertise within the financial business
information world and brings in wealth of experience in architecting information
vending business functions and operations. He heads new initiatives businesses,
external alliances and vendor relations. He has quantifiable know-how casing Business
Development, Training, Support, Operations, Business administration, Product development
and data content aggregation functions with familiarity of latest software technologies.
Prior to TickerPlant, he has held various positions at some of the leading business
information companies in India. He holds a degree in Commerce.
Mr. Shriram K
Vice President (Marketing and Business Development)
Mr. Shriram holds a B.Tech in Engineering with post graduation in Management. He
has over 19 years of experience spanning Sales, Marketing, Business development,
Account management Strategy, across domestic and International business operations
predominantly related to IT products and services. He has been responsible for launching
some of the most innovative IT products and services in the country, including some
that have won national awards in the innovative category. A prolific speaker, he
has participated in various seminars and conferences both domestic and international
and has propagated new technologies, applications especially in the area of financial
markets. He has been associated with the FT group in various functions.
Mr. Prakash Reddy
Vice President (Marketing and Business Development)
Mr. Prakash Reddy has over 20 years of professional experience in financial information
services and related industry. Prior to TickerPlant, he headed Stock Services of
the Press Trust of India and was National Manager of DSJ Group and DaRT-Dow Jones
India Ltd. He was also associated with Kirloskar Group in the field of Market Research
and Techno-Economic Division. He holds post graduation in Management Studies.
Mr. Sambit Patnaik
Vice President (Marketing and Business Development)
Sambit Patnaik oversees the National Sales and Business Development of real time
financial information terminals and products. He assumed this position after serving
as the Head of Corporate Services, India for Thomson Reuters and has over 10 years
of experience in the financial services industry. He has been associated in senior
managerial position with companies like Multi Commodity Exchange of India and Telerate
and holds a Master degree in Management.
Mr. Prakash K
Head - Contents
Mr. Prakash K has over 15 years of multi-domain experience in project management,
data aggregation, and content management and related activities. He has wide experience
in originating the needs of financial information products and services. He possesses
hands on exposure to latest technologies that are required for product development
functions. He was a key member handling terminal and web-based product deliveries
in his earlier responsibilities. He holds a degree in Commerce.
Mr. Paras Jain
Head - Technology
Mr. Paras Jain has 12 years experience in core software development, his expertise
is spread in design, domain knowledge and development of real-time, OLTP trading
and data feed solutions of various global market data feed segments. He was also
a senior member of the Financial Technologies trading and exchange gateway interface
development team. He holds a BE in Computer Engineering.
Mr. Arvind Iyengar
Head -Technology (Exchange Solutions)
Mr. V. Arvindkumar Iyengar holds an Engineering degree and has over 12 years exp.
in the Capital Markets industry. He presently heads exchange technology and solutions
at TickerPlant and plays a lead role in design/development of the Order management
system , instrumental in designing components & protocols to deliver cutting
edge solutions. He has worked with India's leading stock exchange spear heading
design and development of Infofeed data handler ,NIBIS, Extranet etc at the National
Stock Exchange. Prior to TickerPlant, he was instrumental in introduction of NSE
derivatives into FTIL flagship product ODIN and was involved in product enhancements,
management, support and introduction of new markets.