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.