BS Banking Annual 2016: Thriving on disruption

Aditya Puri has always taken the untrodden path and come out a winner

HDFC Bank’s lobby, boardrooms and meeting rooms are all adorned with gleaming trophies of awards that the bank has earned since its inception. And the banker who has been spearheading this success is Managing Director Aditya Puri, who has helmed the bank since its founding in 1994.

Puri, the longest-serving head of an Indian bank, has managed to secure HDFC Bank’s position as the second largest private sector lender in terms of assets after ICICI Bank. However, its market capitalisation of Rs 3 lakh crore is 50 per cent more than that of the State Bank of India (the country’s largest