Pralay Mondal

Mr. Pralay Mondal is the Managing Director & CEO (Interim) of the Bank with effect from April 1, 2022. His prior appointment in the Bank since February 17, 2022 was as Deputy Managing Director of the Bank and prior to that since September 23, 2020 was as President (Retail, SME, Operations and IT) of the Bank.

Mr. Pralay is an Engineer from IIT, Kharagpur and a Management graduate from IIM, Calcutta. Prior to joining CSB Bank, Mr. Pralay was Executive Director & Head of Retail Banking at Axis Bank. He has around 30 years of banking experience across multiple business and functions including retail assets, retail liabilities, business banking, products and technology. Before joining Axis Bank, Mr. Pralay was the Senior Group President and Head of Retail and Business Banking at Yes Bank. He was instrumental in setting up the entire retail franchise in that bank in a short period of time. At Yes Bank, Mr. Pralay used to frequently meet the Investors and Analysts and have been part of the core group engaging with relevant people in India or overseas to represent the bank for raising capital. Prior to that he had a successful 12 years’ stint at HDFC Bank and was earlier associated with Standard Chartered Bank, Wipro InfoTech and Colgate Palmolive. Mr. Mondal’s achievements include pioneering efforts in doorstep banking and direct sales, creating deep geography distribution, and building and scaling up of retail businesses. He is also credited with building capital market, wealth management, private banking, NBFC, credit cards, payments and digital businesses, from scratch.