Aditya Puri is the managing director of HDFC Bank, India’s largest private sector bank. He is the longest serving head of any private bank in India.
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Aditya Puri was born in 1950 (age 70 years; as in 2020) in Gurdaspur city of Punjab. He received a bachelor’s degree in commerce from Panjab University, Chandigarh and qualified as a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Physical Appearance
Eye colour: brown
Hair color: black and white
Family, Caste and Wife
Aditya Puri is married to Anita Puri. They have a daughter named Amrita Puri, who is an actress.
Aditya Puri with his wife and daughter
They also have a son named Amit Puri.
Aditya Puri’s children
livelihood
Aditya Puri has over four decades of experience in the banking sector; Both in India and other countries. He started his career as a management trainee with Mahindra Limited in Mumbai. He worked with Citibank for 21 years and during this time he worked in 19 countries. In 1992, he became the CEO of Citibank in Malaysia. He returned to India in 1994 as managing director of HDFC Bank. During his tenure as MD of HDFC Bank, Aditya led two major mergers in the banking industry, i.e. the merger of Times Bank, and the merger of Centurion Bank of Punjab with HDFC Bank. , His tenure as MD of HDFC Bank ended on 26 October 2020.
Awards and Honors
- QIMPRO Platinum Standard Awards 2019 – National Statesman for Quality in Business
Aditya receives QIMPRO Platinum Standard Awards 2019 – National Leader for Quality in Business
- “AIMA – JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award” by AIMA in 2019.
Aditya Puri receives AIMA – JRD Tata Corporate Leadership Award
- Barron’s Top 30 Global CEOs in 2018
Aditya Puri among Barron’s top 30 global CEOs
- The only Indian to be included in Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year list in 2016
- Barron’s World’s Top 30 CEOs in 2016
- Barron’s World’s Top 30 CEOs in 2015
- Best CEOs-Finance Asia Poll on Asia’s Best Companies 2015
- CNN-IBN Indian Businessman of the Year 2008
Address
HDFC Bank House, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400 013
Net Worth/Salary
Aditya Puri was named as the highest paid Indian bank CEO with a monthly salary of Rs. 89 Lakh (as of 2019).
fact
- He likes reading, gardening and watching TV in his free time.
- His father was an officer in the Indian Air Force.
- While working as a management trainee with Mahindra Limited in Mumbai, he lived as a paying guest and paid a rent of Rs 300 per month. He would have half a cup of tea in the morning and travel from his PG to Kandivali for work.
Aditya Puri in his younger days
- While working in Mumbai, he realized that he had not come to Mumbai to live such a life. He asked his cousin, who was working at Citibank in Beirut, to arrange his interview. He got an interview at Citibank and they hired him.
- He was in Malaysia when Deepak Parekh, who ran HDFC’s housing company, approached him and invited him to set up a bank in India. He agreed and returned to India. The bank’s first office was at Sandoz House in Worli and was inaugurated by Manmohan Singh, the then Finance Minister of India.
Aditya Puri with Deepak Parekh and Manmohan Singh during the inauguration of HDFC Bank.
- Aditya and Deepak Parekh are very close friends since their college days.
Aditya Puri with Deepak Parekh
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