Aditya Puri is Managing Director of HDFC Bank, India’s largest private sector bank. He is the longest-serving head of an Indian private bank.
Wiki/Biography
Aditya Puri was born in 1950 (70 years old in 2020) in Gurdaspur, Punjab. He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Punjab University, Chandigarh and qualified as a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
appearance
Eye color: brown
Hair color: black and white
family, caste and wife
Aditya Puri is married to Anita Puri. He has a daughter named Amrita Puri who is an actress.
Aditya Puri with wife and daughter
He also has a son named Amit Puri.
Aditya Puri’s children
Profession
Aditya Puri has over four decades of experience in the banking industry; in India and other countries. He started his career as a management trainee with Mahindra Ltd in Mumbai. He worked at Citibank for 21 years, during which time he worked in 19 countries. In 1992, he became CEO of Citibank Malaysia. In 1994, he returned to India as Managing Director of HDFC Bank. While serving as Managing Director of HDFC Bank, Aditya led two major mergers in the banking industry, namely the merger of Times Bank and Punjab Centurion Bank with HDFC Bank. His tenure as Managing Director of HDFC Bank ended on October 26, 2020.
Awards and Honors
- QIMPRO Platinum Standard Award 2019 – National Statesman for Business Quality
Aditya wins QIMPRO Platinum Standard Award 2019 – National Statesman Award for Business Quality
- AIMA “AIMA – JRD TATA Corporate Leadership Award” 2019
Aditya Puri wins AIMA – JRD TATA Corporate Leadership Award
- Barron’s Top 30 CEOs in the World in 2018
Aditya Puri named among Barron’s’ top 30 global CEOs
- The only Indian named to Fortune’s 2016 Business Person of the Year list
- Barron’s Top 30 Global CEOs in 2016
- Barron’s Top 30 CEOs in the World in 2015
- Best CEO – Asia Finance’s 2015 Asia’s Best Companies Selection
- 2008 CNN-IBN India Businessman of the Year
address
HDFC Bank House, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400 013
Net worth/salary
Aditya Puri has been named the highest paid bank CEO in India with a monthly salary of Rs. 89 Lakhs (as of 2019).
fact
- In his free time he enjoys reading, gardening, and watching television.
- His father is an officer in the Indian Air Force.
- While working as a management trainee at Mahindra Ltd. in Mumbai, he lived as a paying guest paying rent of Rs 300 per month. He used to drink half a cup of tea in the morning and rush all the way from his PG to Kandivali for work.
Aditya Puri when he was young
- While working in Mumbai, he realized that he didn’t come to Mumbai to live that life. He asked his cousin, who worked at Citibank in Beirut, to arrange an interview for him there. He interviewed with Citibank and they offered him a job.
- He was in Malaysia when Deepak Parekh, who runs HDFC Real Estate, contacted 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 the then Finance Minister of India, Manmohan Singh.
Aditya Puri with Deepak Parekh and Manmohan Singh at the inauguration ceremony of HDFC Bank
- Aditya and Deepak Parekh have been very close friends since their college days.
Aditya Puri and Deepak Parekh
Categories: Biography
Source: HIS Education