February 18, 2009

PRMIA announces today the appointment of a Co-Regional Director to the Mumbai chapter

Raj Benahalkar, Head of Risk Management at the National Commodity & Derivative Exchange Ltd (NCDEX) will be leading the Mumbai chapter along current Co-Regional Director Girish Supta. In his current position Raj is in charge of risk management and responsible for policy formulation and implementation, strategic risk issue management, risk compliance, clearing house risk framework, new product development, improving capital efficiency for member-broker and also part of the senior management team.

Raj has worked in diverse areas such as policy formulation, treasury, ALM, back of office operations, structured finance, investment analysis and project finance. He holds the B.E.I.E, an MBA Finance and the DMM.

Girish and Raj plan to focus on risk education and spreading risk awareness through seminars and conferences. The chapter is looking to link with MBA Institutes, the Chamber of Commerce and similar organizations. Additionally, they intend to target premier business schools to spread awareness of risk management. The chapter have had interest from a local organization to help organize and support the chapter risk events including hosting of event, assistance with logistics, secretarial and additional activities. This would be a huge step forward for the chapter, allowing them to put on several events in a year for the chapter membership.

The chapter plans on increasing steering committee membership within six months time. This combined with the appointment of Raj and the promising support to help organize and host chapter events, the Mumbai chapter will have a perfect framework to provide numerous opportunities to its chapter membership.

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