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Independent Director
Ms. Padmaja Chunduru is a seasoned financial services executive with over 40 years of banking and capital markets experience in India and USA. She has led iconic institutions, NSDL (National Securities Depository Ltd.) and Indian Bank as the MD&CEO. As Deputy Managing Director, SBI (State Bank of India) she led digital banking services and also served as the Country Head, US Operations.
Ms. Chunduru was also instrumental in NSDL developing and running a DLT Blockchain based platform for Security and Covenant Monitoring of Corporate Debt, a first such initiative in India, an important milestone on the their roadmap to listing.
As MD & CEO of Indian Bank, Ms. Chunduru successfully steered the merger of 2 PSU Banks. Significant improvement in all key business metrics and the empathetic handling of the cultural integration of two diverse banks became the subject of a case study “Merger of Equals” by Harvard Business School Publishing.
Ms. Chunduru has been on Boards of LIC (Life Insurance Corporation of India), NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India), ISSA (International Securities Services Association) and ACG (Asia Pacific Central Depository Group), Institute of International Bankers and Asia Society, New York.
Currently she is a member of the Insurance Advisory Committee of IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) and the CCGS Advisory Council, IIMB. (Centre for Corporate Governance and Sustainability, IIM Bangalore)
She has been awarded Best CEO (BFSI) for 2021 by Business Today and Best CEO 2021 for Women Leadership by Economic Times. She has been acknowledged as one of the Most Powerful Women (MPW) in Business by Fortune India and Business Today, for the years 2022 and 2023.
