Shanti Ekambaram is a veteran in the finance industry, with 30 years of experience in investment banking. Since April 2014, Ekambaram has been Kotak Mahindra Bank’s consumer banking group president and a Group Management Council member there. Previously, she’d spent almost 20 years with the bank, starting in 1991 with three years as Vice President of Kotak Mahindra Finance Limited, becoming Executive Director and CEO of Kotak Mahindra Capital Companies Limited for six years starting in 1997 and, then, starting 2003, President of Corporate and Investment Banking for the next 11 years. During that time, entrepreneur Shanti Ekambaram helped set up and run many businesses. Prior to her three decades with Kotak, she worked briefly in the corporate banking and treasury division at Canadian International Bank, the Bank of Nova Scotia.
Over the years, Ekambaram has received many recognitions for her work. In 2013, she received the “CA Business Leader of the Year” award and, shortly thereafter, received the Indian Merchants’ Chamber’s Ladies’ Wing “Woman of the Year” award in the Banking and Financial Services sector for 2013-14. Business Today, one of the top business magazines in India, wrote about Shanti Ekambaram for five years in a row, from 2013 to 2017, in their annual “Most Powerful Women in Indian Business” feature. Fortune India similarly recognized her as one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in India” for three years running, from 2016 to 2018.
A biography Shanti Ekambaram was the focus of would note that, under her leadership, Kotak continues recording its quickest pace of growth in savings accounts and customer acquisition among Indian banks.
Often, the news on Shanti Ekambaram is of her philanthropic work, to which she is devotedly passionate. She has supported several NGOs and raised record pledges for events like the Mumbai Marathon.
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Ekambaram is the Group President of Consumer Banking and a Member of Group Management Council at Kotak Mahindra Bank. In this role, she concentrates on growing Kotak’s cross-sell, customer acquisition and cross-channel digital adoption as an integrated Consumer Banking franchise covering all liability and asset products. In addition, as part of Kotak’s executive board, she helps to oversee and drive the company’s growth charter. She’s also been a board member since 2016 of the Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore (IIM-B).
Ekambaram was born in Namma Chennai in the Tamil region of Southern India. As of this March 2022 writing, the age Shanti Ekambaram is currently is 59 years old.
There is no publicly available information online about Ekambaram’s marital status or, if married, her husband’s name.
In May 2020, Business Today listed the networth Shanti Ekambaram had then as Rs 190 crore.
Business Today reported in 2013 that Shanti Ekambaram started her career in the late 1980s at Nova Scotia Bank in Canada.
