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Ex-managing director of HDFC Bank
Aditya Puri is a senior advisor at The Carlyle Group. He was the managing director of
HDFC Bank , India's largest private sector bank.
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[2] He assumed this position in September 1994.
[3] Puri was the longest-serving head of any private bank in the country.
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India Today ranked him at #24 in India's 50 Most Powerful People of 2017 list.
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Biography
Aditya Puri was born in
Gurdaspur District (Punjab) and studied at
Punjab University, Chandigarh , gaining a bachelor's degree in Commerce. He qualified as a
Chartered Accountant with the
Institute of Chartered Accountants of India .
Career
He has worked in the banking sector for 40 years, in India and other countries. He became CEO of
Citibank ,
Malaysia in 1992. In September 1994 he returned to India as managing director of
HDFC Bank .
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He presided over HDFC's acquisitions of
Times Bank Limited in 2000 and of
Centurion Bank of Punjab in 2010.
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In August 2019 he was reported to be the most highly paid CEO of any Indian bank with a monthly salary of ₹ 89 lakh (US$110,000).
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He officially stepped down from his position in
HDFC Bank on 26 October 2020. Sashidhar Jagdishan took charge as the chief executive officer (CEO) of
HDFC Bank from 27 October 2020.
[9] In January 2021, he joined the biopharma company Strides Group as Advisor and will also serve as a Director of its associate company, Stelis Biopharma.
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[11] He recently joined Deloitte India as a Senior advisor in 4th October 2023.
Awards and honours
2020
Induction in Chartered Accountants Hall of Fame
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2019
QIMPRO Platinum Standard Awards 2019 - National Statesman for Quality in Business
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"Corporate and Philanthropic leadership Award" by American Indian Foundation
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"AIMA - JRD TATA Corporate Leadership Award" by the AIMA .
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2018
Barron's Top 30 Global CEOs
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Named one of the "Best CEOs in the World" by the CEOWORLD magazine .
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2016
The only Indian to feature in Fortune ' s Businessperson of the Year list.
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Best CEO: Institutional Investor All-Asia Executive Team ranking 2016
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Outstanding Business Leader of the year-CNBC-TV18 India Business Leader Awards (IBLA) 2015-16
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FE Lifetime Achievement Award from Financial Express
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Barron's World's Top 30 CEOs
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2015
Best CEO Award - Business Today
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Business Leader of the Year - AIMA Managing India Awards 2015
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World's 30 Best CEOs - Barron's
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Best CEO- Finance Asia poll on Asia's Best Companies 2015
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2013
Best Executive in India - Asiamoney
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Banker of the Year 2013 - Business Standard
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Best CEO - Institutional Investor
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Top Achiever - Sunday Standard Best Banker Awards
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Best Executive in India - Asia Money 2013Best Banker - FE
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2008
CNN-IBN Indian Businessman of the Year 2008
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Personal life
He is the father of actress
Amrita Puri and son Amit Puri.
[22] He is cousin of Bharat Puri MD of
Pidilite Industries and Ex CMD of Cadbury India.
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"Profiles of Directors" . HDFC Bank. Retrieved 19 September 2014 .
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"HDFC Bank on the Forbes Asia's Fab 50 Companies List" . Forbes . 28 August 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013 .
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"HDFC tops Forbes' list of best Indian banks, SBI not even in top 10" . businesstoday.in . Retrieved 27 June 2019 .
^ Raghunathan, Anu (22 July 2015).
"HDFC Bank's Aditya Puri Has Created India's Most Valuable Bank" . Forbes . Retrieved 9 December 2016 .
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"India's 50 powerful people" .
India Today . 14 April 2017.
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"Succession plan for HDFC Bank in place, says Aditya Puri" . The Economic Times . Retrieved 9 December 2016 .
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"CBoP and Times Bank Amalgamation" . HDFC Bank. Archived from
the original on 13 September 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014 .
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"Aditya Puri remains top-paid bank CEO" . The Economic Times . 14 August 2019.
^ Ray, Anulekha (17 October 2020).
"Meet Sashidhar Jagdishan, new CEO of HDFC Bank who will take charge this month" . mint . Retrieved 22 December 2020 .
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"Aditya Puri, former MD of HDFC Bank, joins Strides Group as advisor" . @businessline . Retrieved 24 March 2021 .
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"Former HDFC Bank MD Aditya Puri joins biopharma company Strides as advisor" . www.businesstoday.in . Retrieved 24 March 2021 .
^ IANS (26 April 2019).
"American India Foundation honours Dell CEO, HDFC MD" . Business Standard India . Retrieved 29 June 2019 .
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"Awards AIMA Jrd Tata Corporate Leadership Award | AIMA" . aima.in . Archived from
the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2019 .
^ Verma, Swati (29 May 2018).
"HDFC Bank's Aditya Puri features in Barron's list of top 30 global CEOs" . The Economic Times . Retrieved 30 June 2019 .
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"Best CEOs in the World For 2020: Most Influential Chief Executives > CEOWORLD magazine" . 16 May 2020.
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"HDFC Bank's Aditya Puri only Indian on Fortune's top bizmen list" . Hindustan Times . 18 November 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2020 .
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"Ajita Rajendra and HDFC Bank MD Aditya Puri make it to Fortune list" . Retrieved 30 November 2016 .
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"Awards-HDFC Bank official website" . Retrieved 30 November 2016 .
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"Aditya Puri conferred 'Lifetime Achievement Award' by The Financial Express" (PDF) . HDFCBank.com. Retrieved 11 September 2016 .
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"HDFC Bank MD Aditya Puri once asked a young manager 'bata laddoo kidhar hai' – Anand Mahindra's interesting anecdote at FE Best Banks Awards" . The Financial Express . Retrieved 9 December 2016 .
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"CNN-IBN Indian of the Year 2008" . News18 . 3 February 2009. Retrieved 1 July 2019 .
^ Gupta, Priya (19 March 2013).
"I survived because I am headstrong like my father: Amrita Puri" . The Times of India . Retrieved 7 May 2018 .
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