B Ramesh Babu, a former SBI deputy MD, is the MD & CEO of Tamil Nadu’s Karur Vysya Bank. There was a time when ICICI Bank was seen as a factory that produces CEOs.
Chanda Kochhar, Shikha Sharma, Renuka Ramnath, Vishakha Mulye, Sonjoy Chatterjee and V. Vaidyanathan are all from ICICI Bank.
Creating leaders: Ex-SBI executives at the helmPublic Sector banks
- Sanjiv Chadha, MD & CEO, Bank of Baroda (DMD)
- Partha Pratim Sengupta, MD & CEO, Indian Overseas Bank (DMD)
- Soma Sankara Prasad, MD & CEO, UCO Bank (DMD)
Private Banks
- Rakesh Sharma, MD & CEO, IDBI Bank (DMD)
- J K Shivan, MD & CEO, Dhanlaxmi Bank (CGM)
- Baldev Prakash, MD & CEO, J&K Bank (CGM)
- Prashant Kumar, MD & CEO, YES Bank (DMD)
- B Ramesh Babu, MD & CEO, Karur Vysya Bank (DMD)
- P K Gupta, Non-exec chairman, Utkarsh SFB (MD)
Others
- Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson & CEO, Salesforce India (chairperson)
- Rajnish Kumar, Chairman, BharatPe (chairman)
- Arijit Basu, Non-exec chairman, HDF Financial (MD)
- Padmaja Chunduru,
- MD & CEO, NSDL (DMD)
- Pallav Mohapatra, MD & CEO, ARCIL (DMD)
- Karnam Sekar, Non-exec chairman, NARCL (DMD)
- PVSLN Murty, Chairman & Managing Director, North Eastern Development Finance Corporation (CGM)
The size and spread of the institution, said Karnam Sekar, who was also a deputy MD of SBI and then became CEO of Dena Bank and Indian Overseas Bank.
PK Gupta is with Utkarsh Small Finance Bank and Arijit Basu is with HDB Financial, an HDFC Bank subsidiary. Then, there is Arundhati Bhattacharya, former SBI chairperson, who is chairperson and CEO of Salesforce India. Rajnish Kumar, former SBI chairman, is now the chairman of Bharat Pe.
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