A leading name in the Financial services industry in India today
– Jignesh Shah did not enter
the business through nepotism. The boy from Kandivali who pursued his Bachelors
in Engineering and worked at Bombay Stock Exchange Limited’s BOLT - an online electronic trading
platform, is a self-made man. He gained sufficient knowledge about the stock
market there and left to make a mark. Later in 1988, he introduced FTIL
(Financial Technologies India Limited) to the world. Soon after this Shah
started came up with innovations like the MCX, ODIN and BOURSE AFRICA which
took the world by storm and Shah became a leading businessman and not only in
India.
The entrepreneur had the vision to create
new-generation markets and segments that are people-centric and are based on a
comprehensive market structure. He wanted to work for the well-being of his
country. He created numerous jobs for the Indian population long before the
‘Make in India campaign.
To create an efficient and transparent price
discovery process in the market and generate jobs, incomes and self-employment
opportunities across India was his ultimate goal. A quintessential 360-degree
financial market infrastructure where all the ventures flow to the people
across India. He wanted to make the whole world notice and respect
the remarkable Indian Exchange Industry. India needed state-of-the-art
exchanges of global scale and Jignesh Shah took it upon himself to create it. He envisioned providing
training lakhs of people to increase employment in the country, and digitalizing the whole
transaction process chain across various platforms and introduce India
globally.
Jignesh Shah is a hard-working man who never
looked out for any government doles and tax exemptions and always paid his
loans, payments, debts on time. A true market evangelist who contributed to the
government and other local bodies, and introduced new segments which generated
more revenues for the government. Through his business, he established his
pursuit of public good. He wanted to see India grow and develop, and present it
in a very prestigious manner in front of the world and he did.
