Mr. Amitava Chatterjee, (DIN-07082989) is the second MD&CEO of Jammu and Kashmir Bank Limited. Mr. Chatterjee was Deputy Managing Director, SBI and has also served as MD&CEO of SBICAPS. Mr. Chatterjee has an illustrious career in banking spanning over more than three decades in diverse geographical locations and strategic positions.

His diverse experience includes heading the SBI’s operation as CGM New Delhi, circle and Jaipur Circle with high end clientele like PSUs, NBFCs, and DISCOMs. He has shouldered responsibilities that included Business Development, Risk & Compliance Management, HR Functions with his previous employer besides interacting and participating in various Industry and Government forums.

He has completed his Master’s in Business Administration from ICFAI University Hyderabad besides having qualified the CAIIB offered by IIBF. Beyond his professional pursuits, he is a passionate sports enthusiast and follows tennis, football and cricket.

Dr. Pawan Kotwal, a 1994 Batch IAS officer (of erstwhile Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre of Indian Administrative Service) is at present serving as Advisor to Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh.

He brings to the fore a wealth of Administrative acumen and proficiency having previously served as Principal Secretary for Health and Medical Education, Forest , Ecology and Environment, and Revenue, Planning & Monitoring Department in UT of Ladakh.

During his term as Principal Secretary, Dr. Kotwal played a crucial part in bringing out crucial reforms and initiatives in health and medical education sector. He spearheaded the efforts to improve health care infrastructure, enhance medical education facilities, and promote the wellbeing of the people of Ladakh.

His accomplishments in the fields of forest, ecology, environment, and revenue are equally admirable, portraying his unflinching commitment to sustainable development and good governance.

Santosh D. Vaidya has a rich experience in public service at the state, federal, and international settings. During his undergrad studies at Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, he earned the Silver Medal for his academic performance. He has completed Masters programmes in Economics from IGNOU – Delhi and in International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins University, USA.

He transitioned from the IPS to the IAS in 1998 and then served in varied assignments in Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Delhi, Andaman & Nicobar islands, and Jammu and Kashmir. After his district postings, Santosh contributed to policy formulation in education and social welfare sectors in Goa. While serving in the water utility and the municipal council in Delhi, he gained rich experience of project development in infrastructure.

As the staff officer to CM – Delhi, he supported judicious decision-making and coordination of flagship initiatives. During his stint in the Prime Minister’s Office, Santosh contributed to policy formulation and project monitoring in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He was instrumental in rolling out the rooftop solar program of Renewable Energy Ministry.

While serving as a Senior Advisor of the World Bank at Washington DC, Santosh gained insights into multilateral finance and the Bank’s fiduciary policies on financing, environmental, social, and governance aspects. He also played a key role in coordinating India’s strategic initiative in Andaman & Nicobar islands.

During his current assignment in Jammu and Kashmir, Santosh focusses on public finance and fiscal policies for enhancing efficiency and development impact. He has received the national award for his work in the disability sector and the Election Commission’s certificate for his work in Delhi.

Santosh keenly follows political economy in China and Central Asia and has written articles on the challenges in renewable energy and water management. Beyond his professional pursuits, he is passionate about jogging and trekking.

Dr. Mandeep K Bhandari, IAS is 2001 AGMUT (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territory) cadre IAS officer. He completed his MBBS with Gold Medal from Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, Punjab University and Chandigarh.

Dr. Bhandari at present is Principal Secretary to Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of UT of J&K and is also holding charge of CEO Amarnathji Shrine Board. He has to his credit an administrative and professional expertise of more than two decades.

During his illustrious career, he has served on diversely significant and responsible positions like Sub Divisional Magistrate Bhaderwah, Additional District Development Commissioner Kathua, Deputy Commissioner Leh, and Deputy Commissioner Jammu. Dr. Bhandari has also discharged his duties as Chief Executive Officer, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board and Commissioner/ Secretary to Government of J&K, Health & Medical Education. In the year 2017, Dr. Bhandari was appointed as Divisional Commissioner, Jammu. From 18.01.2018 to 17.09.2018, he served as Private Secretary to Hon’ble Human Resource Minister, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and then from 18.09.2018 as Joint Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

In every sphere of administration wherever Dr. Bhandari has worked, he has made outstanding contributions in tough and challenging circumstances. Dr. Bhandari brings to fray a treasure of competence, reliability, perspicacity and aptitude.

Shri Sanjiv Dayal is Chief General Manager (Retired) Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He has work experience of more than three decades in RBI. Shri Dayal has worked in almost all the operational areas of the RBI. He has specialization in Regulation & Supervision of Regulated Entities, Central Bank Governance, Customer Grievance Redressal (Office of Ombudsman), Financial Inclusion, Currency Management etc.

Shri Dayal has served as RBI Nominee Director on the Boards of various RRBs. He has also served as Regional Director RBI, Regional Office Patna, besides he has also discharged his duties as Office In-Charge RBI, Regional Office Ranchi, First Banking Ombudsman for the state of Jharkhand, General Manager Supervision & Regulation – Central Office, Mumbai, Deputy General Manager – Board Section, Secretary Department, CO, Mumbai.

Shri Sanjiv Dayal has done his Post Graduation in History. He is also a Certified Associate of the Indian Institute of Banking (CAIIB).

Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chhibber joined the services of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank as Probationary Officer in the year 1982 and has led the Bank in different capacities from managing business operations at Branch and Zonal offices to the Corporate Level across the operational geography of the Bank, bringing a treasure of experience to the chair that spans around thirty nine years. His areas of expertise include Credit, Finance, IT, Corporate & Retail Banking, Risk management, Trade Finance, Foreign exchange, Business continuity planning, HR, Bancassurance.

He headed the Bank as Chairman and Managing Director from June 2019 to December 2021.

Elevated as Executive President of J&K Bank on June 1, 2018, he was the Bank's Chief Compliance Officer besides heading Business Support division, HRD, Insurance, Government Banking, Lead Bank, CSC, FID, Subsidiary Management, Culture & Sports functions of the Bank.

As Vice-President in 2009, he headed the technology department of J&K Bank and made remarkable contributions in creating the technology infrastructure of the bank besides instituting the process of providing relevant expertise to the staff.

He has also served as Chairman J&K Grameen Bank for two years and nine months and brought great laurels to the bank by accomplishing its key strategic goals.

Mr. Umesh Chandra Pandey is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with Bachelor’s degree in Commerce. He is a Senior Partner at M/s B.M. Chatrath & Co. LLP since 1991.

Mr. Umesh Chandra Pandey has a considerable and great deal of working experience in the field of Statutory Audit of Listed & Public Ltd. Companies, Corporate Law, Taxation – Domestic & Transfer Pricing, Project Report Preparation, M & A Transactions, Statutory Compliance Audit – Direct Tax/ Indirect Tax & Labour Laws. He has conducted Central Statutory Audit of Banks like Bank of Baroda, Central Bank of India, State Bank of India, Canara Bank, Union Bank of India and Government Company Audits of South Eastern Coal Fields Ltd, Indian Oil Ltd, Oil India Ltd, Steel Authority of India Ltd. & Power Grid Ltd. Mr. Umesh Chandra Pandey is specialized in conducting due diligence of MSME and Heavy Industries on behalf of Scheduled Commercial Banks and is empanelled by IBA for conducting ASM Audit.

Mr. Umesh Chandra Pandey has been an Independent Director on the Board of Tourism Finance Corporation of India Ltd from 2005 to 2010 and has also served as Chairman of Audit Committee. He has also been the Chairman of Audit Committee M/s Engineers India Limited from 2015 to 2019. He is on the Board of the M/S Jammu & Kashmir Bank since January 21, 2022.

He has served as Member of CII North India Committee, entrusted with the affairs of Micro Small Medium Enterprises, Economic Affairs & Taxation, Industrial Relation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Foreign Trade Policy and Guide to Export & Import.

He has also served as Special Invitee & Committee Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India on the following Committees:

1. Direct Tax & Indirect Tax Committee.

2. Research Committee.

Mr. Anil Kumar Goel is a Fellow Chartered Accountant with Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (H) and Master’s degree in Social Work. He is a qualified Arbitrator & Mediator, Information Systems Auditor (DISA), Forensic Auditor & Fraud Detector (FAFD), qualified as Peer Review Board of ICAI, Formerly Member of various Research Groups of ICAI & NIRC, Formerly MEC & Joint Secretary cum Treasurer of Sales Tax Bar Association, New Delhi. Moreover, he has been an Independent Director on the Board of RITES Ltd (a Mini Ratna CPSU) from 01.04.2016 to 31.03.2020.

Mr. Anil Kumar Goel has 35 years of extensive experience and substantial expertise in Corporate & Tax Laws, Consultancy, Statutory & other Audits for Corporates and Non-Corporates Business and NPO/Trust and Banks etc. His diverse clientele includes Manufacturers, Traders, Service Providers, Importers, Exporters, Societies, NGO, and Trusts etc. He has delivered many lectures at reputed Professional Forums like ICAI, Bar Association etc. and has published many articles in renowned Professional & Social magazines, Newsletters etc. on various professional & social issues.

Mr. Anil Kumar Goel is the General Secretary of “Prakash Bandhu Sewa Samiti,” Managing Trustee and Vice President of “Jammu Kashmir Study Centre” (JKSC), Vice President of Prachin Shiv Mandir Committee, Ashoka Niketan, Director of “Vibrant Motivation and Development Foundation” (a Company Registered u/s 8 of Companies Act) and Governing Council Member of “Asian Eurasian Human Rights Forum”, an NGO – Working for Global Human Rights. Besides, he is Past President of Rotary Club at Rotary Intl Dist. 3012.

Mr. Anand Kumar is an information technology (IT) specialist who has experience of more than three decades in IT development and management. Mr. Kumar completed his Bachelors of Technology (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, and his Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Mr. Anand Kumar has worked in various multinational banking and financial services organisations such as Citigroup, HSBC, Barclays, Fiserv, etc. He has also served as a Director on the board of Fiserv India Pvt. Ltd. As Vice President – IT Delivery at Fiserv India, he managed pan-India IT Delivery teams spread across Noida, Pune, and Bengaluru. In this role, he carried responsibility for application development, maintenance, implementation, and support activities for Fiserv products in areas such as core banking, lending, cards, payments, and risk.

Mr. Kumar specializes in helping organisations build scale with maturity, thereby significantly improving organisational credentials, revenue growth, and business confidence. He has led the design and execution of innovative programs such as Target Zero Defects in delivery, as well as improvement initiatives focused on achieving sustained business success through the institutionalization of effective processes and tools.

Mr. Kumar has made significant contributions to the rapid growth and consolidation of four companies in India - i-flex solutions ltd., HSBC Global Technology Centre, Barclays Technology Centre, and Fiserv Global Services. He also had a stint in the Ministry of Communications, Govt. of India from 2017 to 2019.

Mr. Sudhir Gupta joined the services of the Bank as Probationary Officer in the year 1989 and has served the Bank in different capacities across the operational topography of the Bank ranging from business operations at Branch, having headed three different Zones of Bank as Zonal Head and in leading important departments i.e Customer Care, Credit Audit, BSD /CCM at Corporate Headquarters.

Mr. Gupta has also demonstrated his leadership skills in J&K Grameen Bank where he was deputed as chairman for a period two years. During his tenure as Chairman of J&K Grameen Bank, he accomplished the strategic targets within the defined timelines.

Carrying a paragon of capability, expertise and professionalism to the chair that extends over thirty years, his areas of expertise include Credit, Finance, Corporate & Retail Banking, Customer Service, Trade Finance, Business continuity planning, etc.

Ms. Shahla Ayoub is a young Economist of J&K. She presently works as Assistant Professor in Department of Higher Education, Government of J&K. Having worked as Assistant Director in Economics and Statistics, Department of Planning, Monitoring and Development Department, Government of J&K before joining the Department of Higher Education, she brings to Board an affluence of Economic expertise and perspicacity.

She has a yearning and yawning interest in the field of economic research, especially in the areas of Conflict Economics, Financial Inclusion and Developmental Economics. She has to her credit a number of publications, on subjects like Governance, Conflict & Economic Warfare and Economic Welfare.

Apart from supervising a number of Post Graduate Research Dissertations at the Department of Economics, Cluster University Srinagar, she has also participated in National and International Conferences and has made presentations on subjects like Response of Households to Conflict, Financial Inclusion of Handicraftsmen in District Srinagar, Rural Households of Kashmir & Financial Inclusion under PMJDY and Healthcare Infrastructure in Kashmir Valley.

Shri S. Krishnan is a veteran banker with more than four decades of experience. He started his Banking career in January 1983 at Indian Bank. In a career spanning over three decades in Indian Bank, Shri Krishnan gained expertise in almost all the key areas of banking, having served in rural, urban and metro Branches and also in Administrative Offices including Corporate Office of the Bank. He has specialised in Credit, more specifically Corporate Credit. His experience in Risk Management is for over a decade and was the Head of the Risk Management of the Bank.

Shri S. Krishnan headed vital Functions in the Bank like Risk Management, Information Systems Security, HR etc. He was also Executive Secretary to the Board of Indian Bank.

Shri S. Krishnan has been instrumental in initiating a host of reform measures aimed at enriching the quality of HR in the Bank.

Shri S. Krishnan was appointed by the Government of India, as the Executive Director of Syndicate Bank and served as the Executive Director from 1st November 2017 to 31st March 2020. During the said period he was overseeing almost all key verticals / portfolios of the Bank. Notable amongst them are, Corporate Credit, Risk Management, HR, Internal Audit and Compliance. He played a pivotal role in capital raising, Regulatory remediation programme of the overseas branch of the Bank and spearheaded the merger process of the Bank with Canara Bank.

Shri S. Krishnan was appointed by the Government of India as the Executive Director of Canara Bank and served as the Executive Director from 1st April 2020 to 3rd September 2020. During the said period, verticals overseen by him were International Operations, Integrated Treasury, Large and Mid-Corporate Credit, Financial Management, Capital Planning, Subsidiaries besides others.

Shri S. Krishnan was appointed as the MD & CEO of Punjab & Sind Bank by the Government of India. He served the Bank as MD & CEO from 4th September 2020 to 31st May 2022. He was also Chairman of the Board of the Bank from June 2021 to May 2022.

During his period there was total transformation of the Bank on all the fields, be it digital, IT, risk, compliance, monitoring, recovery, business development or HR. Further, during his period, the Bank was turned around and registered highest ever profit in 2021-22.

Subsequent to superannuation and pursuant to the approval of the appointment by Reserve Bank of India, Shri S. Krishnan took charge as MD & CEO of Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Ltd. He served the Bank from 4th September 2022 to 7th June 2024. During the said period, the shares of the Bank were listed in stock exchanges, various systems and procedures were put in place / enhanced, embargo put in place by the Regulator was lifted, branch expansion was restarted, the Bank was approved for carrying out Agency business (Government Business), Risk & Compliance culture was inculcated across the Bank, Business Process Re-engineering / transformation project was rolled out. During his period, the century old Bank, registered highest ever profit (in four digits) during both 2022-23 and 2023-24.

Being Tech Savvy person, he always trusted technology as the game changer in the Banking and accordingly took several initiatives to digitize the processes in different fields wherever he has worked. He has received many awards and accolades during the four decades of the journey in the financial sector.

Shri S. Krishnan is a Post Graduate in Commerce and a qualified Cost Accountant. He is also a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers (CAIIB). He has also successfully completed Certification Programme in IT and Cyber Security for Board members conducted by IDRBT. He was a member of the Managing Committee of IBA and also alternate Chairman of IBA’s Standing Committee on Agriculture & Allied Activities. He was also a member of IBA's Sub-Committee on Performance Management System in Public Sector Banks.