Our Team
- Governing Council
- Team
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Mr. Sandeep BakhshiManaging Director & CEO, ICICI Bank Limited
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Mr. N. S. KannanManaging Director & CEO, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Ltd
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Mr. Bhargav DasguptaManaging Director & CEO, ICICI Lombard General Insurance
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Mr. Anup BagchiExecutive Director, ICICI Bank Limited
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Mr. Sandeep BatraPresident, ICICI Bank Limited
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Mr. Saurabh SinghSenior General Manager, ICICI Bank Limited, President, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
Sandeep Bakhshi grew up in a defence services family and attended several schools and colleges across India before completing his management studies from XLRI in Jamshedpur.
He has been with the ICICI Group for 32 years and has handled various assignments in ICICI Limited, ICICI Lombard General Insurance, ICICI Bank and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance. The Board at its Meeting held on June 18, 2018 had appointed him as Wholetime Director and Chief Operating Officer (designate) effective from June 19, 2018 or the date of receipt of RBI approval for such appointment, whichever was later. RBI vide its letter dated July 31, 2018 had approved his appointment as Wholetime Director designated as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Bank effective July 31, 2018.
The Board at its Meeting held on October 4, 2018 appointed Mr. Bakhshi as Managing Director & CEO, subject to regulatory and other approvals. RBI vide its letter dated October 15, 2018 has approved the appointment of Mr. Sandeep Bakhshi as Managing Director & CEO of the Bank for a period of three years with effect from October 15, 2018.
Mr. Kannan has been an Executive Director at ICICI Bank since May 01, 2009. His responsibilities included Finance, Treasury, Corporate Legal, Operations, Secretarial, Corporate Communications, Corporate Branding, Infrastructure Management and the Strategic Solutions Group. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director on the Board of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company. He joined ICICI Ltd. in 1991.
Mr. Kannan is a postgraduate in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore with a gold medal for the best all-round performance. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India and an Honours graduate in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology (formerly Regional Engineering College), Tiruchirappalli.
Mr. Bhargav Dasgupta, is the Managing Director & CEO, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Corporation Limited, the largest private sector general insurance company in India. Mr. Dasgupta began his career with the erstwhile ICICI Limited in 1992 in the Projects & Corporate Finance Division. Since then he has held key leadership positions in diverse business areas including Oil & Gas financing, E-commerce, Technology Management, Corporate Strategy and Treasury.
Mr. Dasgupta set up the Banks’ International Banking Group and headed it from 2002 to 2006. In October 2006, he was elevated to the Board of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited as Executive Director responsible for Sales, Distribution, Product and Marketing of the Company. He took over his current role in May 2009. He was named as one of the top 25 ‘Young Executives in India’ by Business Today in 2006.
Mr. Anup Bagchi is an Executive Director of ICICI Bank. Prior to this, Mr. Bagchi was the Managing Director & CEO of ICICI Securities Limited (I-Sec), where he led capital raising by corporates. Under his leadership, the organisation won the prestigious Outlook Money – India’s Best e-Brokerage House for seven consecutive years. It also won the CNBC Awaaz Consumer Award for the Most Preferred Brand of Financial Advisory Services.
Mr. Bagchi joined the ICICI Group in 1992 and has worked in the areas of retail banking, corporate banking and treasury. Mr. Bagchi has been honoured with The Asian Banker Promising Young Banker Award as well as Business Today has recognised him as one of India’s Hottest Young Executives.
Amongst other functions, Mr. Bagchi is responsible for Retail Banking. He ensures that the programmes of ICICI Foundation are strategically aligned with the retail banking operations of the Bank.
Mr. Sandeep Batra
Sandeep Batra has been working with the ICICI Group for the last 18 years and is currently the President – Corporate Centre at ICICI Bank Limited.
As President – Corporate Centre Mr. Batra oversees the risk, internal audit, financial crime prevention, government relations, legal and secretarial, and corporate communication functions at the bank.
Mr. Batra has been a founder member of the ICICI Prudential Life Insurance team and has worked with the organization as its Chief Financial Officer from September 2000 till 2006 till he joined ICICI Bank as its Group Compliance Officer.
Mr. Batra rejoined ICICI Prudential Life Insurance as its Executive Director and a member of its board in 2014. At ICICI Prudential Life Insurance he oversaw the finance, investments, actuarial, and risk and compliance functions. He was also instrumental in leading the company to India’s first IPO in the insurance space.
Mr. Batra is a Chartered Accountant (1987) and a Company Secretary (1993).
Mr. Saurabh Singh
Mr. Saurabh Singh is the President of ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth. In his capacity as the President, Mr. Singh is responsible for ensuring that the activities of the Foundation are executed as per the directions of the Governing Council.
ICICI Group has a long history of partnering with the Country’s growth and development. We have engaged in or catalysed specific activities of social or developmental nature through dedicated teams within the Group. ICICI Group has been allocating considerable resources for social development activities, much before the requirements under Companies Act, 2013 came into being. Over the past few years, ICICI Foundation has been primarily focussing on skill development & sustainable livelihood as its key initiative with an objective of creating direct impact in the lives of the beneficiaries.
Mr. Singh continues to implement the vision of ICICI Group through steering the activities of ICICI Foundation and driving integration with ICICI Bank. He has been instrumental in developing an integrated model for development at ‘ICICI Digital Villages’, exploring new markets as well as fostering key Partnerships for market development for the beneficiaries at these villages.
Apart from his role at ICICI Foundation, Mr. Singh is the Business Head Trusts, Associations, Societies & Clubs (TASC) and the Government Banking Group at ICICI Bank. Apart from that Mr. Singh also heads the Infrastructure Management & Services Group and the Business Continuity Management Group of ICICI Bank. He has driven key HR and customer service practices at ICICI Bank in previous assignments. He has been instrumental in various industry firsts and award winning initiatives like ‘Smart Vault’.
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Mr. Saurabh SinghSenior General Manager, ICICI Bank Limited, President, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
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Mr. Anuj AgarwalChief Operating Officer, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
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Mr. Ajay KumarVice President, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
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Mr. Vineet RungtaVice President, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
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Mr. Sanjay ChoudharyVice President, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth
Mr. Saurabh Singh
Mr. Saurabh Singh is the President of ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth. In his capacity as the President, Mr. Singh is responsible for ensuring that the activities of the Foundation are executed as per the directions of the Governing Council.
ICICI Group has a long history of partnering with the Country’s growth and development. We have engaged in or catalysed specific activities of social or developmental nature through dedicated teams within the Group. ICICI Group has been allocating considerable resources for social development activities, much before the requirements under Companies Act, 2013 came into being. Over the past few years, ICICI Foundation has been primarily focussing on skill development & sustainable livelihood as its key initiative with an objective of creating direct impact in the lives of the beneficiaries.
Mr. Singh continues to implement the vision of ICICI Group through steering the activities of ICICI Foundation and driving integration with ICICI Bank. He has been instrumental in developing an integrated model for development at ‘ICICI Digital Villages’, exploring new markets as well as fostering key Partnerships for market development for the beneficiaries at these villages.
Apart from his role at ICICI Foundation, Mr. Singh is the Business Head Trusts, Associations, Societies & Clubs (TASC) and the Government Banking Group at ICICI Bank. Apart from that Mr. Singh also heads the Infrastructure Management & Services Group and the Business Continuity Management Group of ICICI Bank. He has driven key HR and customer service practices at ICICI Bank in previous assignments. He has been instrumental in various industry firsts and award winning initiatives like ‘Smart Vault’.
Mr. Anuj Agarwal
Mr. Anuj Agarwal has been working in the financial and banking sector for over two-and-a-half-decades. With a rich experience in Banking Operations, he managed the responsibility of Infrastructure Management at ICICI Bank in his earlier role before joining ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth. He worked on a strategy to generate fruitful results by blending the needs of his customers with those of the stakeholders. He lead a ‘committed and passionate’ team which worked on his concept of ‘Sustainability is Profitable’. The various initiatives taken not only helped the cause of Go Green, but also contributed significantly to the bottom line of the organization. The results and gain were noteworthy because the accomplishment was over a distributed setup with presence across the country including extreme remote areas. Energy conservation was one of the major projects, and the energy saved in 3 years was equivalent to lighting up about 54,000 rural households for one year. This was combined with other Green initiatives including extensive use of Solar Energy.
The combined impact of energy savings & utilization of renewable energy helped reduce the overall carbon emission by about 55,000 tonnes, which was equivalent to planting of 2,66,750 trees to sequester this volume of CO2 emissions.
Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), in recognition of the efforts of Mr Anuj Agarwal, awarded him the prestigious ‘IGBC Fellow’ in 2017.
Mr. Ajay Kumar leads the operations for all the skill development initiatives of ICICI Foundation. Ajay is a highly-experienced administrator with Civil Services background (1992 Batch).
He has over twenty three years of diversified experience in training administration, learning and development, human resource management, ethics and compliance, general administration, integrated security & risk management and business continuity. Some of his professional assignments include JAD/Administration and Training at NISA, Hyderabad, UN Trainer/Human Right Officer at UNAMSIL and UNMBIH, Senior Commandant, CISF at HPCL/BPCL Refinery, Mumbai & Department of Atomic Energy, Kalpakkam/Kudankulan, Assistant Inspector General/Intelligence – CISF Head Quarters, Delhi as well as Chief Security Officer, Cairn India Ltd.
Ajay has been awarded the President’s Medal for Meritorious Service in 2013, Director General’s Commendations Disc in 1999 and United Nation’s Police Medal in 1998 and 2004 among many other awards and recognitions. He has undergone training in Critical Incident Management in USA and Sierra Leone.
Mr. Vineet Rungta, has been with ICICI Group since May 2003. Vineet’s experience in ICICI Bank spans the Treasury domain covering asset-liability & interest rate risk management for international branches/subsidiaries, implementing framework for monitoring risks, etc. He has worked on roll out of the skill development initiatives and managed the operation. In August 2010, he got associated with the CSR initiatives of ICICI Bank to pursue his interest in corporate philanthropy. Vineet commenced his career with E&Y in 1999 and worked in their Banking & Financial Services vertical, including a short stint in USA.
In his current role, Vineet is responsible for partnerships, procurement, infrastructure, finance, IT and other initiatives/ projects of ICICI Foundation. In previous assignments, he has handled operations of skill development initiatives for West II and South regions. He was also responsible for the healthcare initiative that successfully experimented with providing insurance for outpatient healthcare for the BPL category, as a part of the RSBY scheme of the Government.
Mr. Sanjay Choudhary brings over 23 years of vast experience in the diverse fields of education, health and communications. He has previously worked with Bharti Foundation, UNICEF, BBC World Service Trust, Tata Steel and USAID. At USAID, he spearheaded an expansive research in the field of Behaviour Change Communications. From dealing with grassroots organisations in education to leading teams to implement nation-wide campaigns in health, he has consistently demonstrated his passion for bringing about meaningful change in the lives of people.
Currently, Sanjay is involved in driving sustainable livelihood opportunities for unemployed youth in the Udaipur and Jodhpur districts of Rajasthan, through the Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs). ICICI RSETIs have been consistently ranked amongst the Top Performing RSETIs across the country. He lend his experience in vocational skill development for streamlining the processes under ICICI Digital Village Initiative. Apart from the RSETIs, Sanjay also manages skill development operations for the West I Zone for ICICI Digital Villages.