Building On Growth 2.0
Fifty five-year-old Sashi Jagdishan is not the one to go with the usual flow. He had keen interest in medicine, but ended up studying physics to make a career in electronics. And when his father's close friend, a finance director in a multinational company, advised young Jagdishan about the great opportunity in the field of finance, the latter picked up chartered accountancy. But instead of joining any of the Big Four or making a career in auditing or taxation, he joined Deutsche Bank. Within three years, Jagdishan sacrificed all the perks of the MNC job to join HDFC Bank, then a start-up bank, in a public sector-dominated banking industry. “What, you are joining a government bank?”, was his wife’s response. The rest, as they say, is history.
It’s been a long road for the new MD & CEO of India’s second-largest bank, one which has been closely scrutinised since it involved stepping
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