Documents/Reports Review and Financial Reporting Process
Review and update this Charter, considering regulatory requirements, business environment, etc. and place it before the Board of Directors of the Bank for its approval. The frequency of review shall be atleast once every three years.
Oversight of the Bank’s financial reporting process and the disclosure of its financial information to ensure the fair presentation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in India, applicable regulatory requirements and provisions of Companies Act, 2013.
Review the organization’s annual financial statements and any reports or other financial information submitted to any regulatory body, or the public, including any certification, report, opinion, or review rendered by the independent auditors or firm of accountants.
Review, with the management, the annual financial statements and auditor’s report thereon before submission to the board for approval, with particular reference to:
Matters required to be included in the Director’s Responsibility Statement to be included in the Board’s report in terms of clause (c) of sub-section 3 of section 134 of the Companies Act, 2013.
Changes, if any, in accounting policies and practices and reasons for the same
Compliance with accounting standards, selection of accounting policies, significant judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect reported amounts in financial statements.
Significant adjustments made in the financial statements arising out of audit findings
Compliance with regulatory guidelines, Securities and Exchange Board of India and other legal requirements relating to financial statements
Disclosure of any related party transactions
Approve or ratify transactions of the Bank with related parties and review significant transactions and matters related thereto. Grant of omnibus approval for related party transactions proposed to be entered into by the Bank subject to such conditions as prescribed and as amended from time to time. Related Parties to have the same meaning as provided in Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (as amended from time to time).
Modified opinion(s) in the draft audit report
Going concern assumption
Management discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations.
Review, with the management, the quarterly financial statements / results before submission to the Board for approval.
Reviewing, with management, the statement of uses / application of funds, wherever necessary, raised through an issue (public issue, right issue, preferential issue etc.), the statement of funds utilized for purposes other than those stated in the offer document / prospectus / notice and the report submitted by the monitoring agency monitoring the utilization of proceeds of a public of right issue, and making appropriate recommendations to the Board to take up steps in this matter wherever necessary.
Review compliance with the provisions of the SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 (as amended from time to time) at least once in a financial year and verify that the systems for internal control pertaining to the same are adequate and are operating effectively. (amendment effective from 1st April 2019)
Valuation of undertakings or assets of the Bank, wherever it is necessary;
Review evaluation of internal financial controls and risk management systems.
Look into the reasons for substantial defaults in the payment to the depositors, debenture holders, shareholders (in case of non payment of dividend declared) and creditors.
Approval of appointment of CFO after assessing the qualifications, experience and background, etc. of the candidate;
Review reasons for revenue leakage and approve corrective action plan and monitor them at regular interval. Monitor areas of repeat occurrences, if any and ensure immediate actions are taken to prevent such repeat occurrences of revenue leakage.
Review the financial statements of unlisted subsidiary company/ies and more particularly the investments made by them.
Review the key audit observations pertaining to the subsidiaries presented to the respective ACB / Board, as the case may be.
Reviewing the utilization of loans and / or advances from / investment by the Bank in the subsidiary exceeding Rs.100 crore or 10% of the asset size of the subsidiary, whichever is lower including existing loans / advances / investments.
Review details presented to the Committee, at prescribed frequency, vide RBI circular dated 10 November 2010 and as updated from time to time.
Discuss with independent statutory auditors significant issues raised in the Long Form Audit Report and follow up there on.
Independent Statutory Auditors
Recommend to the Board of Directors the appointment, re-appointment, replacement and removal of the independent statutory auditors for both domestic and overseas operations, considering independence and effectiveness, terms of appointment, the fees and other compensation to be paid to the independent statutory auditors.
Approval of payment to statutory auditors for any other services rendered by the statutory auditors.
Approve all payments for services rendered to the statutory auditors other than as statutory auditors.
Review and monitor, auditors’ independence performance and effectiveness of audit process.
Periodically consult with the independent statutory auditors in the absence of management about internal controls and fair presentation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in India, applicable regulatory requirements.
Discuss with the independent statutory auditors before commencement of the audit the nature and scope of the audit.
Discuss and ascertain from the independent statutory auditors post the completion of the audit, areas of concern, if any.
Review management letters / letters of internal control weaknesses issued by the statutory auditors.
Provide a right to be heard to the independent statutory auditors and the key management personnel in the meetings of the Audit Committee.
Internal Audit Department
Approve appointment, re-appointment, replacement and removal of the concurrent auditors and outsourced internal auditors and the fees and other compensation to be paid to them.
Review with management, performance of internal auditors and adequacy of the internal control systems.
Review the adequacy of internal audit function, if any, including the structure of the internal audit department, staffing and seniority of the official heading the department, reporting structure, coverage and frequency of internal audit including Information Systems Audit.
Discuss with internal auditors any significant findings and follow up there on.
Review the internal audit reports relating to internal control weaknesses.
Review the findings of any internal investigations by the internal auditors / vigilance department into matters where there is suspected fraud or irregularity or a failure of internal control systems of a material nature and report the matter to the Board of Directors.
Approve, review and monitor the Risk Based Internal Audit Plan each year.
Review appointment, removal, and performance of Head – Internal Audit and detailed organisation structure.
Whistleblowing/ Vigil mechanism
The Committee shall review the Bank’s mechanism for its directors, employees and vendors to raise genuine concerns; whether it provides adequate safeguards against victimization of persons who use such mechanism and provides for direct access to the Chairman of the Audit Committee in appropriate or exceptional cases.
Review Statement of deviations, if any:
quarterly statement of deviation(s) including report of monitoring agency, if applicable, submitted to stock exchange(s) in terms of Regulation 32 (1) of SEBI LODR.
annual statement of funds utilized for purposes other than those stated in the offer document/prospectus/notice in terms of Regulation 32(7) of SEBI LODR.
Inspections conducted by regulators
Read the audit inspection reports of the inspection team of Reserve Bank of India or any other regulator, approve action plans for corrective actions to be taken and monitor compliance thereof.
Risk Management
Review the implementation and effectiveness of the financial and Risk Management policies and process and highlight any gaps observed to the Board of Directors.
Process Improvement
Establish a process of reporting by the Management or Independent Statutory Auditor, as the case may be, to the Audit Committee with regard to any significant judgment made in preparation of the Financial Statements along with their views on appropriateness of such judgments.
Following completion of the annual audit and internal audit plan, review separately with each of management, the independent statutory auditors and the internal auditing department any significant difficulties encountered during the course of the audit, including any restrictions on the scope of work or access to required information.
Review any significant disagreement among management and the independent statutory auditors in connection with the preparation of the financial statements.
Review any significant disagreement among management and the internal audit department in connection with the observations made in the internal audit report.
Review with Management the extent to which changes or improvements in financial or accounting practices, as approved by the Audit Committee, have been implemented.
Perform any other activities consistent with this Charter and governing law, as the Committee or the Board deems necessary or appropriate
Stakeholders Relationship Committee
Chairperson:
Mr. C S Rajan
Member:
Ms. Ashu Suyash
Mr. Ashok Vaswani
Ms. Shanti Ekambaram
The Stakeholders Relationship Committee of the Bank reviews the complaints received from the shareholders and ensures redressal thereof.
To resolve grievances of security holders.
To review measures for effective exercise of voting rights by shareholders.
To review adherence to service standards adopted by listed entity for services rendered by Registrar & Transfer Agent.
To review measures and initiatives taken for reducing quantum of unclaimed dividend and ensuring timely receipt of dividend / annual report / statutory notices.
Identify persons who are qualified to become directors and who may be appointed in senior management in accordance with the criteria laid down, recommend to the Board their appointment and removal and specify the manner for effective evaluation of performance of Board, its committees and individual directors to be carried out either by the Board, by the Nomination and Remuneration Committee or by an independent external agency and review its implementation and compliance.
Formulate the criteria for determining qualifications, positive attributes and independence of a director and recommend to the Board a policy relating to the remuneration for the directors, key managerial personnel and other employees.
While formulating the policy ensure that—
the level and composition of remuneration is reasonable and sufficient to attract, retain and motivate directors of the quality required to run the company successfully;
relationship of remuneration to performance is clear and meets appropriate performance benchmarks; and
remuneration to directors, key managerial personnel and senior management involves a balance between fixed and incentive pay reflecting short and long-term performance objectives appropriate to the working of the company and its goals.
To recommend to the Board remuneration (in whatever form payable) to senior management.
Large Expenditure and Share Transfer and Other Matters Committee
Chairperson:
Mr. C S Rajan
Members:
Mr. Uday Kotak
Mr. Ashok Vaswani
Ms. Shanti Ekambaram
Large Expenditure and Share Transfer and Other Matters Committee
To approve transfer, transmission, transposition, name deletion, consolidation and splitting of share and debenture certificates of the Company.
To issue duplicate share/debenture certificates.
To apply for registration of the Company with various authorities of any state or Centre including GST tax authorities, income tax authorities, shops & establishment authorities, and to do or perform all matters relating to such matters.
To apply, in the name of and for the Company for telephone, telex, fax and other telecommunication and electrical/electronic connections and to do all matters relating to such applications.
To open, operate and close Bank Accounts of the Company and change the operating instructions of existing Bank Accounts of the Company.
To authorise persons to sign on behalf of the Company Share Certificates, Share Allotment Letters, Fixed Deposit Receipts.
To authorise persons to represent the Company at General Meetings of any company or cooperative society of which the Company is a shareholder/member.
To fix the dates for Closure of the Company’s Register of Members and Debenture holders and Transfer Books of Shares or Debentures and/or fixing Record Dates, in consultation with the Stock Exchanges.
To authorise the opening of Securities General Ledger Account or any other account with any scheduled banks or with any department of the Reserve Bank of India.
To authorise persons to execute Loan Agreements, Demand Promissory Notes and any other documents as may be necessary for lending out of any line of credit sanctioned to the Company.
To authorise officials of the Company to sign documents for registration of motor vehicles and to do all acts and things for the transfer of any such motor vehicles.
To authorise employee(s) or others to execute, for and on behalf of the Company, agreements, applications, deeds, documents and any other writings in connection with the business of the Company and, if required, to issue Power of Attorney in favour of such persons for the purpose.
To authorise employee(s) or others to represent the Company before any Court, Tribunal, Consumer Redressal Forum or any Statutory or other Authority on any matter relating to the operations of the Company or with which the Company is in any way connected or to represent the Company generally or for any specific purpose or purposes and, if required, issue Power of Attorney in favour of such persons for the purpose.
To appoint or change nominees to hold shares for and on behalf of the Company in any subsidiary/associate companies.
To grant permission and authorise incorporation of companies, with a prefix “Kotak Mahindra” before the name.
To authorise the use of the Common Seal of the Company and to appoint persons to sign/countersign documents, etc. on which the Common Seal is to be affixed
To approve appointment of any employee /Director of the Bank or any other person as a nominee on the Board of other companies under certain circumstances to protect the interest of the Bank’s exposures / investments in such companies;
To approve appointment of any employee of the Bank as a part-time employee of any other company under certain circumstances to protect the interest of the Bank’s exposures / investments in such companies; and
To approve appointment of any employee /Director of the Bank or any other person as an appointee on the Board of other companies (including Section 8 companies) LLPs, firms, if so invited.
To carry out the following activities in respect of equity shares of erstwhile ING Vysya Bank Ltd. being rights shares held in abeyance for various reasons :
Allotment of shares in respect of rights shares held in abeyance and bonus entitlement thereon, after the resolution of the Court case, transmission, dispute etc. as the case may be and upon receipt of application money and other necessary documents.
Authorize officials of the Bank to take necessary action for credit of shares to the demat account of the concerned shareholder(s) or issue of physical share certificates as the case may be.
Authorize officials of the Bank to make the necessary applications to the Stock Exchanges for listing and trading of the shares so allotted, file the various regulatory returns and refund the excess share application money received, if any.
To authorise employee(s) to delegate authority to any other employee(s) or others in respect of any of the matters stated herein subject to it being permissible under applicable law.”
To, inter alia, finalise the structure and terms and conditions of the Non-Convertible Debentures, within the approval granted by the Board from time to time.
To approve expenses as mentioned in the Expense Approval Authorities, as approved by the Board from time to time.
Special Committee of the Board for monitoring and follow-up of Frauds
Chairperson:
Mr. C S Rajan
Member:
Ms. Ketaki Bhagwati
Mr. Ashok Vaswani
Ms. Shanti Ekambaram
Special Committee of the Board for monitoring and follow-up of Frauds
Pursuant to the directives of the Reserve Bank of India, the Bank has constituted a Committee on Frauds for monitoring and reviewing all the frauds involving amounts of Rs. 1 crore and above.
The Bank has, pursuant to the directives issued by the Reserve Bank of India, constituted a Customer Services Committee. The Committee has been constituted to bring about ongoing improvements in the quality of customer services provided by the Bank. The Committee would also oversee the functioning of the Customer Service Standing Committee, compliance with the recommendations of the Committee on Procedures and Performance Audit and Public Services (CPPAPS) and also mount innovative measures for enhancing the quality of customer service and improving the level of customer satisfaction for all categories of cliental, at all times.
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental, Social and Governance Committee
Chairperson:
Mr. C S Rajan
Members:
Dr. Ashok Gulati
Mr. Ashok Vaswani
Ms. Shanti Ekambaram
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental, Social and Governance Committee
Formulate and recommend to the Board, a Corporate Social Responsibility (“CSR”) Policy which shall indicate the activities to be undertaken by the Bank, as laid down in Schedule VII to the Companies Act, 2013 (“Act”) and Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility) Rules 2014 as amended from time to time (“CSR Rules”) and notifications/ circulars issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, from time-to-time;
Review and recommend Bank’s CSR Project, Budget, Expenditure, Design and Annual Action Plan to the Board;
Review and monitor implementation of CSR Projects, CSR Project Budget, CSR Project Expenditure to be in line with the scope of the Act and CSR Rules, Bank’s CSR Policy, Design, Annual Action Plan and to also update the Board on the progress and fund utilisation of each CSR Project; and
Oversee development of the Group’s ESG framework, initiatives taken on the same and reporting and disclosure of the Group’s ESG activities and progress.
Risk Management Committee
Chairperson: Dr. Ashok Gulati
Members:
Mr. Uday Kotak
Mr. Eli Leenaars
Ms. Ashu Suyash
Mr. C S Rajan
The terms of reference of the Committee includes to identify, monitor and measure the risk profile of the Bank; develop policies and procedures; verify models that are used for preparing complex products; review models as development takes place in the markets and also identify new risks; monitor compliance of various risk parameters by operating departments; design stress scenarios to measure the impact of unusual market conditions and monitor variance between actual volatility of portfolio value and that predicted by risk measures; and ensure that the Bank’s credit exposure to any one group or industry does not exceed the internally set limits and that the risk is prudently diversified; and to specifically include cyber security.
Review Committee for classification and declaration of borrowers as Willful defaulters
To review the order passed by the Identification Committee (1st Level Committee) after considering the written representation, if any forwarded by the Borrower(s) and pass necessary orders upholding / rejecting the order passed by the Identification Committee (1st Level Committee).
To bring operational flexibility in processing of credit proposals and also to discharge other responsibilities prescribed in different RBI directives including periodical calendar of reviews.
Group Risk Management Committee
Chairperson:
Mr. Eli Leenaars
Member:
Dr. Ashok Gulati
Ms. Ashu Suyash
Mr. Uday Kotak
Mr. Ashok Vaswani
1) Issues relating to the Group from risk perspective.
2) Group risk appetite.
3) Analyse the material risks to which the Group, its businesses and subsidiaries would be exposed. It would discuss all risk strategies, both at an aggregated level and by type of risk and make recommendations to the Board in accordance with the Group’s overall risk appetite.
4) Identify potential intra-group conflicts of interest.
5) Assess whether there were effective systems in place to facilitate exchange of information for effective risk oversight of the Group.
6) Carry out periodic independent formal review of the Group structure and internal controls.
7) Articulate the leverage of the Group and monitor the same.
IT Strategy & Digital Payments Promotion Committee (Board Sub – Committee with effect from April 1, 2024)
IT Strategy & Digital Payments Promotion Committee has been constituted to ensure effective IT Governance and promotion of digital payments, in line with the relevant guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India (including the extant Master Direction on Information Technology Governance, Risk, Controls and Assurance Practices dated November 7, 2023)
Mr. Cornelis Petrus Adrianus Joseph Leenaars (Mr. Eli Leenaars), Independent Director
Mr. Eli Leenaars has over 35 years of experience in the financial services sector, including institutional & investment banking, asset management, corporate & retail banking and life & general insurance. A respected expert on the future of digital banking, Mr. Leenaars has experience in managing businesses through a wide range of matters including mergers & acquisitions, complex corporate restructurings, strategic initiatives and challenging financial environments.
Mr. Leenaars enjoyed a 24-year career (since 1991) at ING Group N.V., a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company and various of its subsidiaries and held numerous key management positions, including as Chairman of ING Poland (1997-1999), Chairman & CEO of ING Latin America (1999-2002) and Chairman & CEO of ING Central & Eastern Europe (2003-2004). Between 2004 and 2015, Mr. Leenaars was member of ING’s Executive Board with responsibility for ING’s Global Retail & Private Banking operations and Group Technology and Operations. This also included him serving from 2010 until 2015 as CEO of ING Direct N.V., at the time the world’s largest digital bank.
From April 2015 to May 2021, Mr. Leenaars served as Group Managing Director at UBS Group AG, a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company and as Vice-Chairman of the Global Wealth Management Division, based in Zurich.
Mr. Leenaars has served as Group Chief Operating Officer of Quintet Private Bank, a medium-sized Luxembourg-headquartered bank and wealth manager with operations in 6 European countries, from June 2021 to April 2024, based in Luxembourg.
Since January 2019, Mr. Leenaars is a Board Member of Capital One Financial Corporation, a major US bank, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, USA, with operations primarily in the USA.
Since 2009, Mr. Leenaars is a member of the European and the Global Executive Committee of the Trilateral Commission (Paris, Tokyo and Washington, DC) and was its Treasurer, between 2009 to 2022.
Mr. Leenaars has completed LL.M. from the Catholic University Nijmegen, Netherlands and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and attended the Program for Management Development (PMD) at Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.
Mr. Uday Kotak, Non-Executive Director
Mr. Uday Kotak is the Founder and Director of the Bank. He was the Managing Director & CEO of the Bank till September 2023, prior to becoming Non-Executive Director. He has played an important role in the growth of the Kotak Mahindra group over the past 38 years. Under his leadership, the Kotak Mahindra group has emerged as one of India’s leading diversified and integrated financial services conglomerates, providing a range of financial solutions covering banking, asset management, alternate asset management, life and general insurance, stock broking, investment banking, private banking, microcredit and asset reconstruction.
He has played an important role in defining and developing India’s banking & financial sector over three decades. Mr. Kotak leads several key bodies and is currently Co-Chairman of the Indo-UK Financial Partnership (IUKFP) and Chairman of the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India’s advisory committee on Corporate Insolvency and Liquidation. Mr. Kotak is a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). He was earlier a member of the International Advisory Panel of Monetary Authority of Singapore. He was also the President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) from June 2020 until May 2021. From October 2018 to April 2022, Mr. Kotak also served as Non-Executive Chairman of a specially constituted board of Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited ("IL&FS") (a state-funded non-banking financial company) by the Government of India to steer IL&FS out of a deep crisis, which he served as his national duty. In 2017, a Committee on Corporate Governance constituted by SEBI under the leadership of Mr. Kotak recommended sweeping changes towards more robust and transparent corporate governance.
Mr. Kotak is the recipient of many accolades, including the ‘EY World Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ in 2014, ‘India Business Leader of the Year’ by CNBC-TV18 at the India Business Leader Awards 2021, Life Time Achievement Award at BT-KPMG Best Banks Awards 2023, Life Time Achievement award for Management at AIMA Awards 2023 and Institution Builder award at Forbes India Awards 2024.
Mr. Kotak holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and a MMS degree from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
Mr. Ashok Vaswani, Managing Director & CEO
Mr. Ashok Vaswani has a proven track record spanning three and a half decades, initially at Citigroup and, thereafter, at Barclays, of building and growing global businesses at scale, nurturing winning teams, establishing transformational partnerships, leveraging forward leaning technology, with a compelling business vision to deliver strong bottom-line growth. He brings with him significant executional experience with high degree of compliance and industrial strength across financial services.
Mr. Vaswani was Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Bank, UK and subsequently CEO of their Global Consumer, Private, Corporate and Payments businesses and Member of the Group Executive Committee. Earlier, he was CEO Citigroup Asia Pacific and Member of the Citigroup Global Operating & Management Committees. Mr. Vaswani also built and ran various country and regional businesses across geographies. He also held position as President of Pagaya Technologies Ltd, a US-Israeli AI Fintech.
Mr. Vaswani supports various philanthropic organisations, including Pratham and Lend-A-Hand.
He has been on the board of several prestigious institutions such as, London Stock Exchange Group, The Forward Institute, UK, Former Trustee, Citizens Advice Bureau, Former Chairman, Retail Committee, British Bankers Association, Former Chairman of the Board, Entercard, Former Board member, SP Jain Institute of Global Management, UK, Former Board member, Telenor, Former Board Member of VISA Asia Pacific and VISA, UK, Former Director and Member of the Audit and Technology Committee for Barclays Africa Group Ltd and Former Director, UK Finance.
Mr. Vaswani is a Bachelor of Commerce, Economics and Accountancy from the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics (Bombay University), Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Company Secretary from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and received Executive Education from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Uday Shankar, Independent Director
Uday Shankar is the former Executive Chairman of Star India and President of Disney, APAC region, where he excelled at creating not just the biggest media enterprise in the region but was also a pioneer of the digital media revolution across the region. He is the visionary creator of some of the world’s most successful digital services such as Hotstar and JioCinema that have become the mobile models for the entire world.
The tech stacks created under his leadership still remain the go-to model for mobile heavy, large scale markets, which are now being adopted by media companies around the world. He is known to have created talent nurseries at a time when the industry was still in its nascent stage in India and the developing world.
Uday Shankar is a acclaimed entrepreneur, executive, technologist experienced in building scalable web applications, leveraging a wide range of technologies. In the world of consumer digital products and initiatives, over the last three decades, he has been instrumental in introduction of technologies, integrating cloud infrastructure, and content delivery networks to ensure high availability and low latency of millions of users globally and has helped deliver high-quality world class products.
Uday Shankar’s adept working in agile environments and leading teams to solve complex problems through innovative technology solutions, brings a unique blend of strategic vision, operational expertise and digital innovation to the forefront. Besides building businesses, he has also trained professionals who are currently running some of the largest technology companies.
Uday Shankar integrated Hotstar into the Star, and was deeply involved in all aspects of technology i.e. design, speed, capacity, hardware, software, cyber-security, fall back mechanism, Nil or minimum disruption, protection of customer information & content, commercial aspects of charging etc, besides serving as a mentor and providing guidance and feedback on product development, design, tech and innovation roadmap and recruiting the entire leadership, attracting and building talent from the globally-known tech companies. Under his leadership Star transformed into the region’s leading company and led multiple large scale digital initiatives, data driven content strategies and technology integrations which helped scale businesses.
He is credited with pioneering the streaming revolution in India and the APAC region which was possible only using latest technology where diverse content was made available more than 500 million users. Beyond his corporate roles, Uday Shankar is also the first media executive to be the President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He is associated with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and his social initiatives include Malaria No More (MNM).
After a distinguished corporate journey, Uday Shankar turned entrepreneur in 2021. He launched Bodhi Tree Systems, as a founder director, to use technology to redefine consumer sectors that represent significant opportunities but suffer from a lack of capital and innovation—media, education and healthcare.
Uday Shankar’s exceptional accomplishments have earned him numerous honours. Recognized by Forbes India as the “Best CEO (MNC)” for 2015 and named “Entrepreneur of the Year (Entrepreneurial CEO)” by EY for 2016, his achievements resonate widely. His inclusion in distinguished listings like the Indian Express’ “100 Most Powerful Indians” and India Today’s “50 Most Powerful People in India” reinforces his impact. Moreover, he was named the “Impact Person of the Decade – Media” by Impact Magazine.
Uday Shankar holds a Masters in Philosophy (M. Phil.) and Master of Arts (M. A.) Honors from Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Ms. Shanti Ekambaram, Deputy Managing Director
Ms. Shanti Ekambaram is a Commerce Graduate, a Chartered Accountant and a Cost and Works Accountant. She has been associated with the Kotak Mahindra Group for over 30 years and has been responsible for successfully setting up and running several business units. Ms. Ekambaram currently oversees the Treasury, Human Resources, Public Affairs, 811, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental, Social and Governance, Legal and Secretarial functions. The Investment Banking and Institutional Equities businesses is also under the oversight of Ms. Ekambaram. Prior to her current role, she led the Consumer Banking business at the Bank from April 2014 to May 2022. Under her leadership, Bank’s savings accounts base grew at an exemplary pace, probably the fastest in the Indian banking industry. Simultaneously, the focus of the business was on judiciously growing the retail loan book, both secured and unsecured. In addition, the Consumer Banking business drove its digital agenda across customer acquisition, customer adoption of banking, payments and e-commerce transactions, enhancing customer experience and deepening engagement.
Prior to this, Ms. Ekambaram was President - Wholesale and Investment Banking for 11 years until April 2014, where she was responsible for ensuring delivery of comprehensive advisory and financial solutions to leading Indian Corporates, Public Sector Undertakings, Financial Institutions, Multinationals and the Government. She was also Executive Director and CEO of Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited earlier and, along with her team, steered the firm to a position of market leadership. She established a franchise recognised for executing innovative deals, including pioneering the first book-built IPO in India, which ushered global standards in the Indian capital markets. Ms. Ekambaram has rich and varied experience across Retail and Wholesale Banking.
Before joining the Kotak Mahindra Group, Ms. Ekambaram had a short stint with Bank of Nova Scotia - the Canadian International Bank, with their Corporate Banking and Treasury division.
Ms. Ekambaram is on the board of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B). She was a member of the FICCI National Committee on Banking for Financial Year 2021-22.
Business Today, one of India’s leading business magazines, recognised Ms. Ekambaram as one of the ‘Most Powerful Women in Indian Business’ from 2013-2017, in 2019 and 2020. Fortune India had featured Ms. Ekambaram as one of the ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Business in India’ from 2016-2020. Ms. Ekambaram received the ‘CA Business Leader award’ from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India in the Large Corporate – BFSI category in 2020 and was also named CA Woman Business Leader in 2013. Further, the Ladies’ Wing of the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry recognised Ms. Ekambaram as ‘Woman of the Year 2013-14 in Banking and Financial Services’. She was listed by ET x Femina among the ‘Promising Women Leaders of India 2022’.
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