Mr. P Pradeep Kumar, aged 64 years, is a Post Graduate in Science (Statistics) (M.Sc-Statistics) from University of Madras. He is also a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. Currently, he is a member on the Board of Directors of companies engaged in the business of real estate, asset reconstruction, software business, cements etc.

He is a career banker, retired as Managing Director (Corporate Banking) of State Bank of India (SBI), the largest bank of the country, in October 2015. During his long association of 39 years with SBI (3 years of which at Board level), he gained rich experience in various areas of banking including corporate and international banking, treasury management, information technology, retail, transaction banking, strategic planning, business development, risk management etc.

He has excellent track record of successfully leading large teams across various business verticals of SBI. He also successfully led the US Operations of SBI as the Country Head-US. He held multiple assignments driving large projects in the Information Technology Wing of SBI. As a Head of IT (Chief Information Officer), he led SBI’s IT strategy, set up India’s largest data warehouse. He also lead the analytics foray of SBI. During his association with SBI he was member of important committees of Directors and was chairman of Risk Management Committee.

Mr. P Pradeep Kumar was appointed on the Board of our Bank w.e.f. 19.08.2020 (Independent Director) and he assumed charge as Part Time Chairman w.e.f. 14.11.2021.