Kesri Tavadia, CIO at Bombay Stock Exchange has over 35 years of vast industry experience in IT – specifically software development, infrastructure services (networks, OS and databases) and cybersecurity for financial services and capital market firms. In his nine-year stint at BSE, Tavadia has played a leading role to transform BSE into the world’s fastest exchange. He is a strong proponent of open source technologies and has walked the talk by successfully implementing one of the largest data warehouses on open source platform. Providing technical leadership and architectural vision is core to his heart; under his leadership at BSE, numerous mission-critical projects have been implemented – for instance, an automated complete disaster-recovery procedure.