Ashok Kini

Ashok Kini has over four decades of experience in the financial services industry. He joined State Bank of India as Probationary Officer in 1967 and retired as the Managing Director in 2005. In addition to the Edelweiss Financial Services Limited Board, Ashok is on the Board of Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company Limited (a subsidiary of the Company), since November 2011.

He has, throughout his career, held important board-level positions across numerous corporates in India Inc., namely IndusInd Bank Limited, SBI Capital Markets Limited, UTI Trustee Company Pvt. Ltd. and Gulf Oil Lubricants India Limited, to name a few.

He was appointed by the Government of India as Managing Director – National Banking, Chairman of a Regional Rural Bank, Chief Dealer in the Offshore Banking Unit in Bahrain, among others. He also served as an Advisor to the Thorat Committee on Financial Inclusion at the Reserve Bank of India.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Mysore University and a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Madras Christian College, Chennai.