Edelweiss chairman Rashesh Shah, a long-distance runner in NBFC storm

Rashesh Shah tells Dev Chatterjee and Krishna Kant that his experience in running marathons helped him weather the NBFC storm

Rashesh Shah, chairman of Edelweiss Group, who had been shuttling between New Delhi and Mumbai for most of 2018 as president of industry lobby body, Ficci, is hard to pin down. After many emails, we are meeting him over coffee at Sofitel hotel at Mumbai’s Bandra-Kurla Complex, a five minute drive from Edelweiss’ swanky headquarters in Kalina. Shah, a well-known marathoner, is bang on time and orders a cappuccino and cookies while we order two masala chais for ourselves. 

A former ICICI Bank manager, Shah set up Edelweiss in 1995 and is considered a veteran in Mumbai’s financial circles. In