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Equalifi Financial Services Entrepreneurs 2024

Equalifi Financial Services Entrepreneurs Awards (FSEA) are designed to recognize and celebrate outstanding achievements in the financial services industry by entrepreneurs and innovative leaders. These awards typically highlight those who have demonstrated exceptional skills, creativity, and leadership in areas such as finance, investment, banking, fintech, and related sectors. This is a prestigious awards program that identifies outstanding young executives, professionals and entrepreneurs in the business, visionaries, and innovators changing the way things are done. They are inspiring others and already giving back to their communities.

Award Categories:

Emerging Entrepreneurs (Founders/ Co-Founders who has been building their enterprise for less than 3 years)
Progressing Entrepreneurs (Founders/ Co-Founders who has been building their enterprise for more than 3 years)
Leading Entrepreneurs (Founders/ Co-Founders who are market category leaders)
Guiding Entrepreneurs (Founder's/ Co-Founders who have reached the topmost stage of Maslow's hierarchy)
Prolific Investor (Individual/ Institutional Investors who have the best track record of investing in financial services startups)
Lifetime Achievement (Financial Services Entrepreneurs who have earned the love and respect of one and all)

In addition to the 6 awards, 24 prominent startups will get a chance to feature in our special report- "The Top 24 Indian Financial Services Entrepreneurs to Look Out For".

Award Criteria:

Sustained Impact: The recipient should have demonstrated a long-term commitment to advancing the financial services industry through innovative practices, leadership, and significant contributions.

Industry Leadership: The recipient is often recognized for their leadership roles, whether as founders, executives, or influential figures who have driven substantial growth, change, or improvement in the sector.

Innovation and Vision: The recipient must have pioneered new approaches, technologies, or business models that have reshaped the financial landscape.

Professional Integrity: Recipients should be typically those who have maintained high ethical standards and contributed positively to the reputation and integrity of the financial services industry.

Mentorship and Legacy: Recipients may also be recognized for their role in mentoring future leaders and contributing to the development of talent within the industry.

Significance of the Award

Recognition: It acknowledges the recipient’s exceptional career and contributions that have stood the test of time.
Legacy: The award helps cement the recipient’s legacy and serves as an inspiration to others in the field.
Visibility: It often enhances the recipient’s profile and may open doors for new opportunities or collaborations.

Selection Process

Nominations: Candidates are usually nominated by peers, industry experts or colleagues.
Evaluation: A panel of judges, often composed of esteemed professionals and past award winners, reviews nominations based on established criteria.
Selection: The final decision is made based on the candidate’s career achievements, impact, and contributions to the industry.

Winning the Equalifi Financial Services Entrepreneurs Awards can provide significant benefits, including increased visibility, credibility in the industry, networking opportunities, and potential for further business growth.

Nominations Deadline:

October 15, 2024

Once nominated, nominees will receive a questionnaire, which would be due to our events team via email by October 15, 2024.

Contact:

If you have any questions, email Ms. Namrata Baluni on events@equalifi.org

OUR JURY

Aditya Gadge

Founder & CEO Equalifi | Priwexus | Eqclique

Aditya is the Founder & CEO of Equalifi – a global membership organization for financial services organisations and professionals. A recognized pioneer in the private wealth, alternative investments and family office education space, Aditya provides strategic direction to Equalifi and leads its overall development.

Aditya is also the Founder & Principal Advisor of the Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds (IAAIF) and the Founder of Priwexus – the Family Office Membership Community.

Aditya has 18 years of experience in the Financial Services sector in varied disciplines like Wealth Advisory, Financial Education, Consulting, Strategic Planning & Brand Building.

Aditya has done his Masters in Human Resources, Masters in Economics and is a Certified Financial Planner. A prolific writer, he has been regularly contributing to the various business, financial and education publications.

Aditya is a member of the editorial board of International Family Offices Journal (UK) and has co-authored 2 books on Credit Research and 1 book on Global Family Offices.Aditya currently serves as a Member of SEBI’s Alternative Investment Policy Advisory Committee (AIPAC) and also as a Member of the Investment Council of Niti Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP).

Gopal Srinivasan

Chairman & Managing Director TVS Capital Funds

Gopal Srinivasan isthe Chairman and Managing Director of TVS Capital Funds(TCF). TCF -- a growth private equity platform set up in 2007, is the largest Indian rupee capital Fund in India, with a corpus of ~₹2,000 Crores. Under the leadership of Gopal, the platform has invested in more than 30 businesses that include companies like Nykaa, RBL, National Stock Exchange (NSE), Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), GoDigit, Yubi and Five Star Business Finance.

Gopal is a third-generation member of the illustrious TVS Family; his entrepreneurial career spanning well over three decades, in which he has founded, steered and scaled up over 10 new ventures across diverse verticals.

Gopal also believes that the key for building the new India is to energize educational institutions. He has contributed significantly to his alma mater. Gopal is a member of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business Advisory Board.

Gopal was also associated as a Governing Board member of Great Lakes Institute of Management-Chennai, IFMR- Chennai and Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA), Chennai.

Gopal has played an extensive role in VC/PE industry bodies as well as regulatory policy landscape. He is a boardmember of the Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA).

Gopal has been a member of SEBI’s Alternative Investment Policy Advisory Committee (AIPAC), since 2016 and he is also a board member of the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH), since its inception in Dec’20.

Cyril Shroff

Managing Partner Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Mr. Cyril Shroff is the Managing Partner of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and previously was the Managing Partner of Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., India’s largest and foremost law firm. The Firm has nearly 650 lawyers with offices in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmedabad. Mr. Shroff was admitted to the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa (India) in 1982 after receiving his B.A., LLB degree from the Government Law College in Mumbai. He is also a Solicitor, Bombay Incorporated Law Society, since 1983.

With over 35 years of experience in a range of areas, including corporate laws, securities markets, banking, infrastructure, trust and estate laws, amongst many others. Mr. Shroff is regarded and has been consistently rated as India’s top corporate and finance lawyer by several international surveys including those conducted by International Financial Law Review (IFLR), Euromoney, Chambers Global, Asia Legal 500, Asia Law and others. He has won numerous awards from Legal Publications.

Mr. Shroff is also the head of the Private Client team. He has deep and unparalleled experience in advising family businesses, both in India and abroad, on a range of family business, governance, succession and wealth management issues. He specializes in advising business families on corporate governance and succession issues.

Mr. Shroff has worked on a number of Family Constitutions and Family Arrangements with some of India’s most prominent business families, and continues to act as their trusted advisor in multiple capacities. He was instrumental in mediating many prominent family disputes in India. He was also responsible for writing several of India’s Family Constitutions.