Aditya Puri

Aditya Puri is the Managing Director of HDFC Bank, India's second largest(after ICICI) private sector bank.[1][2] He assumed this position in September 1994, making him the longest-serving head of any bank in the country.

Biography

Aditya Puri was born in Gurdaspur(Punjab) and studied at Punjab University, Chandigarh, gaining a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He has worked in the banking sector for 40 years, in India and other countries, and became CEO of Citibank, Malaysia in 1992. In September 1994 he returned to India as Managing Director of HDFC Bank.[1]

He presided over HDFC's acquisitions of Times Bank Limited in 2000 and of Centurion Bank of Punjab in 2008.[1][3]

Personal life

He is the father of actress Amrita Puri.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Profiles of Directors". HDFC Bank. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "HDFC Bank on the Forbes Asia's Fab 50 Companies List". Forbes. 28 August 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
  3. ↑ "CBoP and Times Bank Amalgamation". HDFC Bank. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
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