| Prithvi Haldea did his MBA from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
in 1971. Over the next 18 years, he worked at senior positions in the corporate
sector in the areas of exports, consulting and advertising. In 1989, Haldea set
up PRIME Database, the country’s first and still the only database on the primary
capital market. It has a large subscriber base, and is widely reported by the media.
Haldea is presently a Member of the Government’s Standing Council of Experts for
the Financial Sector. He is also a member of several committees including SEBI Primary
Market Advisory Committee and Advisory Committee on Individual Insolvency and Bankruptcy,
IBBI. He is a Public Interest Director on MCX. Additionally, he is an Advisor to
the Association of Investment Bankers of India and Gaja Capital. Haldea has served,
among others, as a Board Member of the Central Listing Authority-SEBI, First Trustee
of the Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority, Board of Governors of Indian
Institute of Corporate Affairs, Central Government Nominee on the Governing Council
of ICAI and ICSI. He was also a member of Ministry of Finance Task Force on Financial
Redress Agency, Quality Review Board-ICAI, FSDC Committee on Commission/Incentive
Structure of the Distributors of Financial Products, Finance Minister’s High-level
Expert Committee on Corporate Bonds and Securitization, and several committees of
SEBI, MCA, NSE, BSE, CII, NASSCOM, ASSOCHAM and PHDCCI. Mr.Haldea joined the Board
of Directors of Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. in June 2001, of Nucleus Software
Ltd. in April 2008 and Virstra-I Technology Services Limited in August 2014. As
an investor protection activist and proponent of corporate governance, Haldea regularly
raises issues with regulators and in the media, and has launched several public
service websites. A lover of Urdu poetry, he is presently devoting a lot of his
time to Ibaadat Foundation, which he founded for bringing poets and poetry back
to life, through musical dramas.
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