Mr. Rajesh Kumar Dahiya ( Director)
Mr. Rajesh Kumar Dahiya, Executive Director, Axis Bank Ltd, is an Engineer with a Masters in Management. Before joining Axis Bank in June 2010, he was associated with Tata Group for 20 years where he handled various responsibilities across functions such as Human Resources, Manufacturing, Exports, Distribution and Institutional Sales.
In his current role as Executive Director, he supervises all functions under Corporate Centre viz. Internal Audit, Human Resources, Compliance, Company Secretary, Corporate Communications, Corporate Real Estate Services, Chief Business Relations Officer (CBRO), Corporate Social Responsibility, Ethics & Sustainability and law.
In addition, Mr. Dahiya also oversees the functioning of the Axis Bank Foundation. He is also on the Board of Axis PE Ltd.
Mr. Ganesh Sankaran (Director)
Mr. Ganesh Sankaran is the Group Executive - Wholesale Banking Coverage Group at Axis Bank Limited. He has nearly 25 years of experience across coverage, credit and risk functions and has handled verticals like Corporate Credit, Financial Institutions, Business Banking, Mortgages, Commercial Transportation, Equipment Finance & Rural Lending.
Before joining Axis Bank, he was Executive Director at Federal Bank, responsible for business architecture across the Wholesale Bank, Micro/Rural bank, Business Banking and international operations. Additionally, he had also served as a Member of the Board of Directors for Equirus Capital and Fedbank Financial Services. Prior to that he was associated with HDFC Bank where he was Co-Head, Corporate Banking.
Mr. Ganesh Sankaran is an Engineer with a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Mr. Sanjay Sinha (Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer)
Sanjay Sinha is a professional banker with more than 30 years of experience in banking. He has diverse experience in credit granting and administration, compliance management, policy formulations, human resources and management at various levels. Acknowledged as a result oriented financial professional and recognized by World BFSI Congress & Awards in their 101 topmost influential BFSI leaders listing for 2020.
Began his career with State Bank of India in 1985 as a Probationary Officer and handled many responsibilities with leadership roles across banking verticals including branch banking, commercial banking, corporate banking.
Sanjay joined Axis Bank Ltd., Risk Department in 2006 and was managing and monitoring credit risk at micro and macro levels. He shifted to Corporate Banking in 2010 as Sector Head responsible for business growth and improving credit quality of various industry sectors with AUM of around Rs.9000 crore. Also shouldered additional responsibility of Nodal Officer for Corporate Credit Compliance Functions of the bank.
Sanjay moved to London in 2012 to set up Axis Bank UK Ltd and served there as the Head of Credit & Investment Banking to develop Axis Bank’s Corporate Banking strategy globally and expand into new business segments. The UK franchise consistently generated profits and made its mark amongst new banks. Returned to Axis Bank in 2017 as Group Head, Corporate Banking to drive business growth across various industry sectors managing credit portfolio of around Rs.34,000 crore.
Sanjay took charge of Axis Trustee in 2018 and led the company to establish leadership position in trusteeship services for new asset classes and Agency Services. He piloted the company to acquire licence from SEBI to start operations in GIFT-IFSC. He is the President of Trustee Association of India (TAI) and participates actively for strengthening regulatory framework for domestic bond markets.
Sanjay is a science graduate with a Post Graduate certification in Investment Banking from IIM Indore. He also holds certificate in credit management from NIBM, Pune and Indian Institute of Bankers, Mumbai.