jignesh shah & ftil

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Jignesh Shah Entrepreneur, Business Magnate Most influential Business Magnate in Financial Markets. Established FTIL in 1988 with a view to providing financial software to capital markets. At the age of 39, youngest Indian billionaire by Forbes magazine. Honored with prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year 2006 for business transformation

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Page 1: Jignesh shah & FTIL

Jignesh Shah Entrepreneur, Business Magnate

• Most influential Business Magnate in Financial Markets.

• Established FTIL in 1988 with a view to providing financial software to capital markets.

• At the age of 39, youngest Indian billionaire

• by Forbes magazine.

• Honored with prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the year 2006 for business transformation

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Founder of FTIL

Established in 1988 as a software company with a valuation of $10,000

A decade later, grown over $2 Billion and is recognized as the top 10 leaders in financial technology infrastructure and commodity exchanges.

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Lesser known facts about Jignesh Shah

Completed Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Mumbai University which was followed up with a stint as an Assistant Manager in BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange)

Learnt the ropes of operating exchanges at BSE and had an opportunity of travelling of 12 countries to gain an expertise on the subject.

Rejected an offer from Merill Lynch New York foreign exchange, a bold step in itself, and went on to promote FTIL. In order to fund FTIL, he had to mortgage his home and in 2009, he figured in Forbes top 100 richest