Sharad Kumar Saxena

Mr. Sharad Kumar Saxena is an Independent Director of the Bank and has been associated with the Bank since February 19, 2022.

Mr. Sharad Saxena has more than 30 years of experience and had held almost all the leadership positions in ICICI Bank technology group, like, heading the technology function for Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking, Asset products including Corporate & Retail Loans, International Banking, Credit Cards, Cash Management Services, Payment Systems, Core Banking, Switching, HR, CRM and Compliance & Fraud Management, Head of IT Infrastructure group including Networks and head of Technology Compliance for interfacing all audits and inspections. Some of his key accomplishments were execution of numerous business and productivity enabling projects, transformation and migration of live Data Centres across the cities, migration of large applications and technology platforms, co-creating new technology enabled business models, setting up of IT Governance and Compliance function within IT, etc. As a member of the core technical committees of RBI for the following initiatives, he was in-charge of automation of Regulatory Returns filing, NG-RTGS, RBI Core Banking and Interface with Government Departments and Managing Outsourcing Risks. Later, as Chief Technology Officer for amalgamated Bank of Baroda, as the Chief Technology Officer and the head of IT of Bank of Baroda, erstwhile Vijay Bank, and erstwhile Dena Bank, successfully led the most complex and the biggest bank merger in the country. Made a strategic roadmap for IT landscape of the amalgamated bank to sustain its business strategies for the next five years. This included movement to cloud, renewal of IT infrastructure, development of big data lake platform, consolidation and movement of data centres and large-scale digitization.

Mr. Sharad Saxena is a gold medalist Engineering graduate in Electronics & Telecommunication from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur. He is also a Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) from ISACA, US, and a Certified ISO 27001 Implementer and Certified Senior Examiner for Quality Management for the Indian Merchant's Chamber.