Board of Directors
Pankaj is the Founder and CEO of Cogencis Information Services Ltd. A career journalist-turned entrepreneur, Pankaj set up CRISIL MarketWire in 2001 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the ratings agency CRISIL. The assets and staff of CRISIL MarketWire were acquired by the listed company Television 18 in 2006 and were used to start NewsWire18 Ltd.
Vice President – Data
Prakash is the Vice President – Data at Informist. Prakash is key part of the data management team. Prakash was with Cogencis since 2014 and has transitioned into Informist when it acquired the credit data business of Cogencis. Prakash has over two decades of work experience and has earlier worked with companies such as Capital Market Publishers and Tickerplant Infovending.
Vice President
A CA by qualification, Neeta Mendon is the Vice President at Informist. She heads the Accounts & Finance and the HR & Administration team. She has more than 25 years of work experience. She was a key part of the team that set up NewsWire18 in 2007 and headed the Accounts & Finance & HR team from 2006 to 2010. Neeta has worked in manufacturing and service organisations such as Philips India, Bridge News, which was a part of Bridge Information Systems, ABC Consultants, and Tops Security.
Vice President, Technology
Nashit is the Vice President Technology at Informist. He heads the IT services function in Informist. He has been a part of the Informist journey right from its CRISIL MarketWire days. Nashit is a key member of the management team and he has handled a variety of assignments successfully. Nashit started his career in the IT services firm Microland from where he joined CRISIL MarketWire Ltd.
Informist Data & Analytics Pvt. Ltd was earlier part of Cogencis Information Services Ltd., India's first real-time market data terminal company. This follows the acquisition of Cogencis Information Services Ltd by NSE Data & Analytics Ltd, a 100% subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.