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CNN Video: A date with the perfectly punctual Bombay Stock Exchange chief
CNN Correspondent Mallika Kapur lands the first television interview with Madhu Kannan, the youngest CEO of Asia's oldest stock exchange
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Featured on CNN's business blog The Biz Clinic, CNN Correspondent Mallika Kapur interviews Madhu Kannan, the 37-year-old CEO of the mighty Bombay Stock Exchange:
She writes, "It had taken around 3 months and an endless number of emails and phone calls to the BSE’s press office to confirm a date and time for our interview. It was frustrating to keep chasing them -- I put it down to Indian bureaucracy and poor time management, unfortunately still typical of many large Indian companies.
“That’s one thing I am trying to change,” said Kannan when we interviewed him. “I want to start meetings on time and change the culture so no one’s late for meetings.”
It’s just one of the many, many challenges Kannan has ahead of him. His big task: To revamp the BSE and make it relevant again. At 37, he’s the youngest CEO of Asia’s oldest stock exchange. It’s an exchange that needs help.
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