CS Manish Gupta, elected as President, and CS B. Narasimhan elected as Vice President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India for the year 2023 w.e.f. 19th January 2023.
A fellow member of the ICSI, CS Manish Gupta is a Law Graduate and has a Master’s Degree in Commerce. He has been associated with the profession of Company Secretaries for the last 18 years, as a Practicing Company Secretary.
He has been elected as the President for the year 2023 after being re-elected for the term of the Central Council for 2023-2026. He was previously elected for the term 2019-2022 and served as the Chairman of the PCS Committee of the ICSI in 2021 and 2019 and PMQ Course Committee of the ICSI in 2021 and 2020, and as the Vice-President of the ICSI for the year 2022.
CS Gupta is a registered Insolvency Professional with the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India and is empanelled as an Arbitrator with Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd. (BSE) and National Stock Exchange Ltd. (NSE). He is also empanelled as Mediator/Conciliator under the provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 with various Regional Directors. He specializes in handling complex assignments on Corporate Law, Securities Law, and Taxation Law and is a regular speaker at training programmes, seminars, and conferences in India and abroad.
CS Manish Gupta was elected to the Northern India Regional Council of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India for two consecutive terms in 2011-2014 and 2015-2018 and was unanimously elected as the Chairman of NIRC of ICSI for the year 2016.
CS B. Narasimhan is a Post Graduate in Economics and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) AND has over 4 decades of experience in Corporate Law and Management with a special emphasis on the Capital Market.
He has been elected for second term of 4 years from 2023-2026 and will be serving as the Vice-President for the year 2023. He was first elected to the Central Council of the ICSI in the year 2007 and was re-elected in the year 2011 for another term of 4 years. He was elected once again as a Central Council Member for the term 2019-2022 where he served as the Chairman of the Secretarial Standards Committee, Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, and member of the Disciplinary Committee for 7 years.
His areas of expertise include Corporate and Securities Management, Public offering of securities, and all Corporate Actions associated with any Listed companies including handson experience in operations relating to such Corporate Actions.
He has been a member of several committees constituted by SEBI and has also been the Chairman of the Registrar Association of India (popularly known as RAIN) for two terms spread over 5 years. He has also been closely associated with the Stock Exchanges (BSE and NSE), Depositories (NSDL and CDSL), and other Regulatory Bodies. He has been a speaker at seminars and conferences both in India and abroad and has contributed to various professional articles.
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