Shripal Morakhia

Shripal Morakhia is a serial entrepreneur. He went to the US in 1979 on sponsorship by the New York Stock Exchange and after his MBA worked as the Executive Assistant to the President of NYSE for a year. His journey was cut short by the death of his father and he returned to India in 1981. In the early ‘90s, he promoted SSKI and Sharekhan. SSKI was the first ‘Made in India’ brokerage and investment banking firm that served Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) and was a leading investment banker for media, telecom, and infra placements to private equity and strategic investors. Sharekhan was a pioneer in combining the brick-and-click model of retail broking. Shripal also produced/distributed 16 feature films including Jajantaram Mamantaram, Bend it Like Beckham and Monsoon Wedding.