Board Of Directors

Shri S.S. Mundra assumed the charge as Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda on January 21, 2013. Prior to his elevation as Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda, he was the Executive Director of Union Bank of India.

Shri. Mundra holds a Masters Degree in Commerce and is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (CAIIB). Shri. Mundra started his career as a Probationary Officer in Bank of Baroda in 1977 and has over three decades of experience in Banking. He has held wide range of responsibilities in Domestic as well as International Operations of the Bank, in various capacities before his elevation as Executive Director of Union Bank of India in 2010. Shri. Mundra brings with him diverse experience in Treasury, International Operations and Credit. He has held key leadership positions as Zonal Head of Maharashtra & Goa Zone. He was also the Chief Executive of Bank of Baroda's UK Operations for a period of 3 years.

Nanda has worked for over 25 years in India's leading Banking, Asset Management, Financial Advisory, General and Life Insurance organizations.

Before he joined the life insurance industry at the beginning of the historical opening of the sector in 1999, he was heading the retail sales at DSP Merrill Lynch. He has also been associated with large organizations such as GIC Asset Management, New India Assurance, Andhra Bank and Indian Oil Corporation before moving to the insurance industry.

At the time of liberalization of the insurance sector, he joined Birla Sun Life to be part of its start up team to set up their financial advisory business followed by the Bancassurance, Alternate Distribution Channels and Group Businesses at Birla Sun Life Insurance. He pioneered bancassurance business in India working with over a dozen large Indian and MNC banks as distribution partners of Birla Sun Life Insurance taking the company to the second position in the industry at that time.

He later joined Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group as President & CEO to set up its life insurance business under the umbrella of Reliance Capital.

Nanda has graduated in Commerce, did his MBA in Finance & Marketing and Ph.D from Andhra University. He is also a Fellow of Institute of Company Secretaries and Fellow of Insurance Institute of India. He has authored a book on financial planning titled "Investors' Handbook" and has also been instrumental in drafting the "Life Insurance Development Plan" in conjunction with the Life Insurance Council.

Nanda has also chaired various industry associations and conferences – both national as well as international. At present he is the Chairman, Insurance Committee, ASSOCHAM and Chairman, Indian Pension Congress 2012.

Nanda has many interests and hobbies - photography, movie making and Indian music are his current passion. He is married to Anuradha and has two children, Abhijit and Madhubala.

Shri P. Srinivas is the Executive Director, Bank of Baroda.

Shri P. Srinivas, started his banking career with Andhra Bank in November, 1978. Having worked in various capacities as Chairman of RushikulyaGramya Bank, Zonal Manager, Warangal, New Delhi and as General Manager in charge of Department of Information Technology, Operations, Accounts, Credit Card, he has rich experience of over 33 years in Banking. He was also instrumental in the migration of all the branches of Andhra Bank to Core Banking Solution (CBS).

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering with distinction from College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources (HR) from IGNOU. He has attended several Management Training Programmes at IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore and also at Asian Institute of Management, Manila.

Shri K. K. Misra is the Executive Director, Andhra Bank.

He has a wide experience of having worked in diverse divisions within the bank such as corporate credit & project appraisal, financial inclusion, micro finance, skill development and infrastructure development.

Shri Misra started his career with Canara Bank in 1975 as Probationary Officer and moved to the position of General Manager in 2008. He was also the Chairman of Aligarh Grameena Bank, Shreyas Grameena Bank and Managing Director of CanFin Homes Ltd.

Mr. Mark Gregory is the Group Executive Director, Legal & General U.K.

Mr. Mark was appointed on the L&G Board in January 2009. He joined Legal & General in 1998 and has held a variety of divisional finance director roles and served as Group Financial Controller, Communications and Resources Director, Resources and International Director and UK Service Operations Director. From 2006, he was Managing Director, With-Profits. Prior to joining Legal & General, he had worked in senior financial and business development roles at companies including Kingfisher Plc and ASDA.

Shri Vivek Thatte is the General Manager (International Operations), Bank of Baroda

He has a wide experience in various areas like the Credit department, Foreign Exchange, SME & Wealth Management, Corporation Accounts & Taxation and International Operations. He has also worked at the New York branch of the bank for a period of five years in Credit and Treasury operations and headed the Corporate Financial Services department at New Delhi and Pune for three years.

Shri Thatte was also the Chairman of Regional Rural Bank – Bulsar and Baroda Gujarat Gramin Bank for two years.

He has done his Masters in Commerce and is a Chartered Accountant.

Shri R.Padmanabhan a Chartered Accountant by profession joined Andhra Bank 3 decades ago and has worked in various capacities across the country. He has a rich experience in not only credit and branch operations but also administration. He currently holds the position of General Manager, HR at Andhra Bank.

Mr. Geoffrey Towers is Managing Director for UK & International Development.

His responsibilities include the Group's Bancassurance business and its savings businesses in the UK D2C and international markets. He joined Legal & General in 2010 with an initial remit to make sure that L&G remained an attractive partner for advisers and customers in a platform driven, post RDR world.

Geoff's background crosses advisory, distribution and provider space. He started his career with Citibank where he led their entry into retail funds in a range of countries across Europe and Asia. He moved to become a partner in Sagitta, a high net worth investment firm that was sold to Fleming Family and Partners. Following this, he became Managing Director of Barclays International Funds Ltd before being appointed as CEO of Standard Life's wrap and platform business. He took this business from serving customers' assets of less than £100m to over £5bn.

Shri Manohar Gopal Bhide, an MA (Economics) and C.A.I.I.B, has an experience of over 45 years in the financial sector. He has held several coveted positions of responsibility in public sector banks. He was the Chairman & Managing Director of Bank of India, Managing Director & Group Executive (National Banking), State Bank of India (SBI) and CEO, SBI, London, UK.

His current directorships include Finolex Industries Ltd., Pune, J.P.Morgan Securities Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd., Mumbai, Mahindra Sulabh Services Ltd., Mumbai, Global Trade Finance Ltd., Mumbai, IOT Infrastructure & Energy Services Ltd. and Asset Reconstruction Company (India) Ltd., Mumbai. Also, he is a Member of the Executive Committee (Currency Derivatives Segment) of National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.

He is a Consultant/ Strategic Advisor/ member of the strategic advisory board for IDFC Private Equity Company Ltd., JP Morgan Chase, Mumbai, New Bridge Capital LLC, USA, Buena Vista Fund Mg. LLC, USA, Intuit Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Development Credit Bank and Indian Oil Tanking Ltd., Mumbai.

Shri U.S.Roy is an experienced executive with Board-level assignments in financial services spanning commercial banking, insurance, financial technologies, cross-border payment & collection systems and management of financial institutions. He retired as Deputy Managing Director of State Bank of India (SBI) after over 37 years' service in SBI. He was then on deputation to SBI Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (SBI Life),  one of the largest private-sector life insurers in India, as its Managing Director & CEO. His immediately preceding assignment was as Chief General Manager of SBI's Bengal Circle (2005 and 2006), which covers the states of West Bengal, Sikkim & Bay Islands comprising then of over 800 branches of the Bank, 18000+ staff and a Balance Sheet of over Rs. 35,000 crores.

He joined SBI as a Probationary Officer in Porbandar, Gujarat. Besides heading large banking and insurance operations, he led the team which implemented the SBI - Connect network and Core Banking Solution (CBS) software across the State Bank Group., as Chief General Manager (IT) of SBI's Global Information Technology (IT) Hub at Belapur (Navi Mumbai).  Till date, this is considered as one of the largest commercial computer network implementations in the world.

He took over as MD & CEO of SBI Life in 2007. The company's cost-effective and customer centric approach, leading to significant growth in its business volumes, was developed through intensive synergy with the State Bank Group's branch network and innovative product strategy, supplemented by a compact, highly productive Agency (non-SBG) distribution channel. Corporate business connections of the State Bank Group (SBG) were also effectively leveraged in SBI Life's integrated Banca distribution model. These measures initiated by him helped SBI Life to leverage the SBI-brand in its journey to emerge as one of the two most significant life insurers.

Shri U S Roy is a post graduate in physics. He is also a Life Member of Indian Institute of Banking and Finance. He belongs to an old and established family of Cuttack (Orissa), active in public life since 1850s.