Deena Asit Mehta
Independent Director
Ms. Deena Mehta is by education a Chartered Account, master’s in management (Finance) and Post Graduate Diploma in Securities Law and Diploma in Stock market studies.
She is a CA of 1984. She has taken up job with Crompton Greaves Limited as a Management Trainee in Finance Department. In 1986 she joined the stock market as a badge holder with a broking firm. She became the first woman to enter the trading ring and since then her career with stock markets is uninterrupted. She was admitted as a member of BSE Limited in 1994.
Since becoming the member of the exchange, she has participated in various committees of the exchange including Arbitration committee, defaulters committee, Online Trading core committee, Listing committee and many such. She has strongly advocated reforms in the stock exchange and through SEBI committees introduced huge number of reforms. These reforms have made the Indian stock markets very attractive to the foreign investors and has also made safe for Indian investors,
Ms. Deena Mehta was on the Board of BSE and CDSL for a total period of 6 years initially (2 terms) and another 2 terms subsequently. The positions held include Vice-President and President of the Exchange. Major reforms were carried out at the exchange during this period. She was also member of the committee that drafted the rules for Corporatisation and Demutualisation of the BSE and paved way for the same.
Ms. Deena Mehta has over 150 Board years’ experience on the Boards of Indian companies as well as Education Institutions advisory boards. Due to technical expertise and insistence on adherence to corporate governance on these Boards she has earned respect of many professionals and regulators. She was also on the Board of ITI Ltd, NISUS fund, Magma Housing (now Poonawala housing), Reliance Asset Reconstruction company, Gandhar Oil Industries, FINO Bank, National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).
Participated on Education colleges advisory Boards of NMIMS, Wilson College, MIT Pune, IES Education society, Indian Institute of Company Secretaries (capital market syllabus) and SNDT University to name a few. During her career Ms. Deena Mehta has won over 100 awards from various esteemed organisations. Some of them include being Highest taxpayer by Mumbai CA institute (only woman in the list) TEN Outstanding persons of India by Indian Jaycees, Outstanding Alumnus Award by NMIMS, Outstanding woman in Banking and Finance from Indian Merchants Chamber, FICCI (woman wing) to name a few. Various organisations like Rotary, Lions, Jaycees, education, and social institutions have awarded her for contribution from time to time over past 4 decades.
On social service front she was part of stock exchange and Prempuri Ashram Trust committee that did over 20 projects in Bhuj region after the 2001 earthquakes. During Tsunami 60 houses village were renovated in Kollaimedu village near Nagapattinam. Chairperson of Kasturba Stree Vikas Gruh educating 7000+ girls in Jamnagar. Vice- Chairman of Prempuri Ashram Trust that has over 4000 activities per year, primarily spiritual programs in South Mumbai. She has been personally contributing to various social causes.
Ms. Deena Mehta is a god-fearing individual, lives and practices Bhagwat Gita in letter and spirit. She has imbibed the principles of Gita in her personal, business, and public life.
