Amitabh Chaudhry

Amitabh Chaudhry is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Axis Bank Ltd. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing growth, profitability and sustainability for Axis Bank and its subsidiaries. Amitabh has over three decades of experience spanning leadership roles in large and diverse organisations, across Banking, Insurance and IT sectors. Prior to Axis Bank, he was the MD & CEO at HDFC Standard Life for nearly 9 years, where he spearheaded the company’s growth to make it India’s most profitable life insurance company, including a successful IPO in 2017. In an earlier avatar, he was the MD & CEO of Infosys BPO Ltd, as well as the Head of the testing unit of Infosys Technologies Ltd, where he played a critical role in building the BPO from its inception to an extremely profitable business with presence in eleven centres across seven countries. Some of his external positions of responsibility include having served on the Board of Manipal Global Education Services Limited and Shriram Transport Finance Co Ltd. He has also been an Independent Director with HDFC Credila Ltd. Amitabh holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics and Electrical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.