Mr. Vivek Kulkarni,
Managing Director, Brickworks

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Vivek Kulkarni is the Founder Managing Director of Brickwork Ratings, SEBI, RBI and NSIC Registered Credit Rating Agency. He is the Chairman of Brickwork India, a knowledge process outsourcing company in Bangalore. He is the Founder & President of Brickwork Finance Academy. He is the visiting faculty for finance at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore.

He has over 30 years of experience in business and government. As the Information Technology & Bio Technology Secretary, Government of Karnataka, he was instrumental in building world-class IT & Biotech institutes and events in Karnataka. He has been widely quoted in several best sellers as well as newspapers like New York Times, London Times, several European newspapers, FOX TV and a large number of Indian media.

Prior to this, he was the Finance Secretary (Resources) of Karnataka. He was Division Chief of SEBI, a regulator of capital markets, and Head of Advisory Services in CRISIL � a rating agency now taken over by S&P. He was the Director as well as Chairman of the Technology Committee on the Board of the Bombay Stock Exchange, the oldest exchange in India.

He is a gold medalist in Bachelor of Engineering from Karnataka University and also an MBA in Finance & Information Systems from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.