Mr. Dipak Gupta was the Managing Director & CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited, up to December 31, 2023. He has had over three decades of experience in the financial services sector, with the last two and half decades having been spent with the Kotak Mahindra Group. At the Bank, in the past, he has overseen the functions of IT (including Cyber Security and Digital Initiatives), Internal Audit, Human Resources, Marketing, Compliance, Administration, Infrastructure and Operations as well as Treasury, Wealth Management and the Consumer Finance businesses. He was also responsible for setting up the retail business following the conversion of Kotak Mahindra Finance Limited (KMFL) into a bank.
Mr. Dipak Gupta has also played a key role in building various businesses for Kotak Mahindra Group. He was instrumental in forging the partnership between KMFL and Ford Credit International. He was the first CEO of the KMFL–Ford Credit joint venture, Kotak Mahindra Primus Limited.
He is director on the boards of Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Limited, Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited, Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited (Chairman) and Kotak Mahindra (UK) Limited.
Ms. Sujata Guhathakurta is an MBA and Cost Accountant. Ms. Guhathakurta is Senior Executive Vice President & Head Debt Capital Markets at Kotak Mahindra Bank. She is a part of the Kotak Leadership Team. She has over 25 years of work experience, within the Kotak Group, spanning the areas of Bond & Loan Syndication, Structured Products, and Trading in Fixed Income Securities. She has been spearheading efforts of the bank in the space of structuring & syndicating across fixed income products, spanning across Loans, Bonds & Structured Products for the past 10 years. Prior to that, she used to Head the Sales & Trading Desk for the Bank’s Treasury.
Mr. Raghunandan Maluste holds Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Manchester Business School, England, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales as well as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He is also an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Mr. Maluste is currently Honorary Secretary & Treasurer, Mumbai First, angel investor. He has worked in India, the United Kingdom and the Gulf as a public accountant, management consultant, journalist, advertising executive, entrepreneur, angel investor, board member of companies, trusts and societies, researcher and consultant in government, investment and private banker. Some of the organizations he has worked with are Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Lintas, the Indian Institute of Public Administration, HSBC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, CRY, Bombay Gymkhana, CSO Partners, Fomento Group, Intellecap-Aavishkar and Zenjoy Limited (Beijing). Apart from speaking regularly at professional, industry and academic, events, Mr. Maluste has presented to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance. He has been published in R&D Management (Oxford), World Affairs (New Delhi), Business India (Mumbai), etc.; been interviewed for the press, TV, and radio, and addressed live audiences on three continents.
Mr. Paritosh Kashyap, is a Chartered Accountant and Cost & Works Accountant. He is the President and Business Head – Wholesale Bank at Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (“Bank”). He has played a pivotal role in spearheading the structured finance, real estate and debt capital market business in his 27 years association with the Bank. On July 1, 2022, Mr. Paritosh Kashyap took charge of the Wholesale Bank business at the Bank. Prior to that, he was responsible for all Large Corporate business, Real Estate Lending, Structured Finance, Infrastructure, Banking & Financial Institutions Group and Debt Capital Markets. He continues to have oversight responsibility as a Director of Kotak Mahindra Investment Limited. A member of the Kotak Leadership Group, Mr. Kashyap has extensive experience dealing with Large Corporates and NBFCs and advising them on capital structuring, financing, and securitization. He has originated, structured, and led many structured financing transactions, including acquisition financing, sponsor financing, securitization, Cross border, High Yield Credit, etc.
Mr. Sanjeev Shah, has been appointed on the Board of the Company as a Non-Executive Independent Director.
Mr. Shah is a professional with over 30 years’ experience in leading organizations such as Kotak Mahindra Group & Times of India Group. Over the last 15 years, he has played a leading & decisive role in Business Strategy, Corp Finance, Corporate Governance, Policy & Strategic Recruitment. Presently, Mr. Shah is the India Chairman of a leading International School chain and is also very closely associated with India’s largest School Sports Company.
Mr. Baswa Ashok Rao, has been appointed on the Board of the Company as a Non-Executive Independent Director.
Mr. Rao, hold a Bachelor’s degree in science and is Chartered Accountant (FCA), as well as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Mr. Rao is a professional with over 36 years’ experience Banking and Financial Services Sector, in banking operations, technology and risk management, both within India and abroad. Presently Mr. Rao provides Consulting and Advisory Services to the Financial Services Sector and to the Fintech Industry