People Track in Banks

Sunil Agrawal is Director at Manipur Rural Bank

Sunil Agrawal has been appointed Director at Manipur Rural Bank, which comes under Punjab National Bank. Sunil is a General Manager at Punjab National Bank. He had earlier functioned as Chief Executive Officer at Punjab National Bank, Afghan Operations, and as Chief Faculty at the PNB Institute of Information Technology.

Punjit Malhotra is Senior Director at NatWest

Group

Punjit Malhotra has been appointed Senior Director, Shared Experiences and Digital Transformation and India Domain Lead, Retail Banking Digitech at NatWest Group. He comes back to NatWest after a stint with Max Life Insurance Co as Senior Vice President, Head of Product Engineering and Digital Technology. In his earlier stint at NatWest, he was Director, Intelligent Automation and Retail Digitech. Punjit has also worked for RBS as Head of Credit Cards, Operations and BPM Technology India.

Renu Narvekar is MD - Tax, India and South Asia Markets, Standard Chartered

Renu Narvekar has been appointed Managing Director - Tax, India & South Asia Markets of Standard Chartered Bank. She was earlier Global Head - Taxation, at Tata Consultancy Services. She has also worked for HSBC as Regional Head of Tax, Europe and Global Head- Transfer Pricing in London. Renu is a CA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Haresh Hiranandani promoted as EVP & Head - Digital Transformation at Kotak Bank

Kotak Mahindra Bank has promoted Haresh Hiranandani as Executive Vice President and Head - Digital Transformation. Haresh has been with Kotak Mahindra Bank for more than 15 years and has held positions such as Head - Digital Transformation and Senior Vice President and Vice President. He is an experienced PMP and ASQ Certified Black Belt. He holds an MBA and MMS from University of Mumbai and B.E in Electronics Engineering.

Nabajyoti Choudhury is SVP - Branch Banking

at Kotak Bank

Nabajyoti Choudhury has been appointed Senior Vice President, Branch Banking - Prime Markets (North India) at Kotak Mahindra Bank. He will be responsible for growing the market share across the region, through the integrated branch banking teams and other LOBs and the SME & Agri Assets Book besides other portfolios. He was earlier Senior Vice President and Regional Head, Retail Banking and Wealth Management (South India) at HSBC. Nabajyoti has also worked for Citi India.

Anil Kuril is CTO at Union Bank of India

Union Bank of India has appointed Anil Kuril as its Chief Technology Officer. Anil has been with the bank for more than 13 years and has earlier held the position of General Manager - IT. He has also worked for Punjab National Bank and Allahabad Bank. He has an BE degree in Computer Engineering and is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) from ISACA.

Vishal Ukarde joins IndusInd Bank as Sr VP

Vishal Ukarde has joined IndusInd Bank as Senior Vice President. He was with Yes Bank as President. He has also worked with Bank of America and Axis Bank. Vishal has completed his MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies in Finance and BE from Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai.

Srikanth Bhuvanagiri is MD at SocGen Division

Srikanth Bhuvanagiri has been promoted Managing Director at Societe Generale Corporate Investment Banking- Finance for Global Markets. He is located in Paris. He was earlier Director and Head Group Finance Operations at Societe Generale in Bangalore. He has also held the position of Senior Vice President and Head Market Risk and Product Controls and at Societe Generale Global Solution Centre. Srikanth has also worked for UBS as a Director. He has completed a program on Managerial Finance, Financial Analysis and Valuations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an Executive Management Program, Business Management and Banking Finance from INSEAD and an Executive Management Program from India School of Business.

Sanjeev Vaswani is now President and Head - Corporate Business at Yes Bank

Sanjeev Vaswani has been promoted as President and Head - Corporate Business Finance at Yes Bank. He was holding the position of Group Executive VP and earlier Executive VP at the bank. Sanjeev has also worked for HDFC Bank. He has a Master’s Degree in Financial Management and a Diploma in Financial Management from Welingkar’s Institute of Management.

Ashish Kapahi promoted President at Yes Bank

Ashish Kapahi has been promoted to the position of President at Yes Bank. He will be based at Bangalore. He was earlier Group Executive VP & Regional Head South - Transaction Banking Group of the bank. He has earlier worked for HSBC and HDFC Bank.

Yesu Babu appointed Group President at Yes Bank

Kondreddi Venkata Nageswara Yesu Babu has been appointed Group President & Regional Business Head - South, Emerging Corporate Banking at Yes Bank. He has been with the bank for nearly 12 years and has held several senior positions in the bank. Earlier, he has worked for Axis Bank. He is a CA and ICWA.

Alok Jain becomes EVP at Yes Bank

Alok Jain has been appointed Executive Vice President and Regional Business Leader - Small Enterprise Banking at Yes Bank. He was earlier Regional Business Leader - SEBR at the bank. Alok has earlier worked at IndusInd Bank and HDFC Bank. He has a PGDABM in Agri Business from the Indian Institute of Plantation Management.

Kaushal Mankad appointed SVP at Yes Bank

Kaushal Mankad has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Program Lead - BB Trade and Forex at Yes Bank. He has been with Axis Bank as Center Head - Commercial Banking Group. He has also worked for HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank.

Praveen Khurana is Head of Risk - Retail at ING

Praveen Khurana is appointed Head of Risk for Retail/Rest of World at ING. He will be based at Amsterdam. Praveen is an independent director and member of the Risk Management Committee under the Board of Directors for Bank of Beijing (representing ING). Prior to his current assignment, he was Global Head of Retail Credit Risk and CRO Retail (Interim) at ING. He has held several senior positions at ING Group, including Global Head - Retail Credit Risk & CRO (Interim). Praveen has also worked for IDFC First Bank and the erstwhile ING Vysya Bank. He holds an MBA from the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad.

Mandeep Arora joins HDFC Bank as

Regional Head

Mandeep Arora has moved from IndusInd Bank to HDFC Bank as Regional Head. At IndusInd Bank, he was holding the position of Senior Vice President. He has also worked for Standard Chartered Bank as Director - Head Employee Banking - Corporate Payroll and with Citi India. He has completed a General Management and Business Administration program from Harvard Business School.

Rama Chandra Mishra is Deputy GM at SBI

Rama Chandra Mishra has been promoted at Deputy General Manager at State Bank of India. He was earlier Senior Vice President at the bank’s Singapore branch. He has also worked for the erstwhile State Bank of Hyderabad.

Sanjay Rudra is new CRO at Bank of Maharashtra

Bank of Maharashtra has appointed Sanjay Rudra as its Chief Risk Officer. Sanjay has overall experience of more than 30 years in the field of banking operations, large corporate credit, accounts, taxation and audit. He has been associated with bank since 1992. Before being promoted as CRO, he was a General Manager of bank.

Deepak Bhayana is MD at MUFG India

Deepak Bhayana has been promoted at Managing Director, Head of Global Markets, India at MUFG. Deepak was earlier Director in the bank. He has also held other positions in the bank, including Senior VP. Prior to that he has held the position of Forex and IRS Dealer at ICICI Bank. He is a CA.