Senior Leadership

Shri R. Viswesvaran
-MD & CEO
Shri. R. Viswesvaran is a veteran banker with a distinguished career of over 26+ years at a Public Sector Bank, where he gained extensive experience in Global Banking Regulations, Business Development & Strategy, Operations, Financial Inclusion, and Innovation. In his current role at the India Post Payments Bank, he is responsible for driving growth, innovation and customer satisfaction in the Bank. Prior to joining the IPPB, he held the position of General Manager at Union Bank of India & held various roles as vertical head at the corporate office and at field level, including heading the business and operations of the State of Tamil Nadu. His other notable experience is the role of MD & CEO of Union Bank of India (UK) Limited, London, through 2018–21. Before entering the banking field, he had served in the Indian Air Force as an Air Warrior. Shri. R. Viswesvaran is an Executive MBA. He has also completed a Management Programme in Banking & Finance from Union Bank School of Management and a distinction holder in CAIIB from the Indian Institute of Banking & Finance.

Shri R. Viswesvaran

Shri Gursharan Rai Bansal
-CGM & CSMO
With more than three decades of varied and multi-cultural successful stints with leading organizations in banking, financial services and insurance sectors such as UTI AMC, Cholamandalam, Metlife, Way2 Wealth Securities, Escorts Finance and Escorts Asset Management, and Kotak Mahindra Finance across various geographies in India, he brings cross-sector domain expertise in payments, collections, mobile banking, securities broking & treasury products. Currently, he handles planning, development and execution of marketing, sales and distribution, products, business development through government and enterprise channels, branding, and corporate communication at IPPB. He is a Bachelor of Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, Punjab University and a management graduate from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University.

Shri Gursharan Rai Bansal

Smt. Lavanya Arumugam
-GM (Operations)
IT Professional with more than 20 years of experiences in implementation and operations of technology services in Banking Industry. Expertise in driving digital innovations and payments product development. Overall improved customer experience and employee engagement, optimised operations and created new business propositions which leveraged to overall business growth. Prior to Joining the IPPB She worked in various banks and IT Industry. She is post graduate, Master of Technology (M.Tech) in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological university (JNTU) and holds professional certificates like Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA),Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), EC Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Information Systems Audit (CISA) ,JAIIB and CAIIB.

Smt. Lavanya Arumugam
Ms. Bindu Tewari
-CVO
An Officer of the Indian Railways Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME), Bindu Tewari joined the Indian Railways through the prestigious SCRA scheme. She brings to the organisation over 30 years of diverse work experience. She has the practical knowledge of working in the Field and Zonal Headquarters in the Railways in diverse areas that have included Rolling Stock Maintenance and Infrastructure Perspective Planning, an earlier stint in Vigilance and a tenure as Member Secretary in Railway Recruitment Board. As Director in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, she has driven policy initiatives of the Government of India. Most recently she has worked with a specialised Procurement Organisation of the Ministry of Railways.
Ms. Bindu Tewari

Shri Sanjeev Misra
-CRO
Banking Professional with 24 years of experience in Risk Management domain ranging from Credit Risk, Market Risk, Stress testing, Capital Planning, Implementation of advance approaches of Risk management Basel III, Budgeting, Capital Planning, CRAR monitoring &, ICAAP. He is a management graduate from NIBM Pune & FRM by GARP, USA. He holds certifications in Risk Management in Financial Services by CISI, UK, Risk and Regulations by GARP, USA, CAIIB & Quantitative Finance. Prior to Joining IPPB, he has also held the positions of AGM at various locations at the Punjab National Bank - one of India's largest Public Sector Banks.”

Shri Sanjeev Misra

Shri Rajesh B
-CISO
A multi-skilled professional with 27 years of global industry experience and expertise in multiple domains, mainly multinational banks. Over 20 years of enterprise level experience in strategic planning, design-development, upgrade, implementation, integration and execution of Information Security Governance, Risk Management, Business Continuity, People Management and System Audits. A technocrat and motivational leader / mentor who can easily navigate dynamic work environments as per business priorities. Qualifications include Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) from ISACA, Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law from Asian School of Cyber Law, Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Security from Amity University, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor from BSI, Certified Payment Card Industry Security Implementer (CPISI), Graduate in Electronics from Nagpur University & Post Graduate in Applied Electronics from Bharathiyar University.

Shri Rajesh B

Shri Sajjan Kumar Saini
-Head Internal Audit
Mr. Sajjan Saini heads the Audit Function of the Bank. He has 20 years of experience in area of Integrated Treasury Operations, Risk & Liquidity Management, Banking Operations, Finance & Audit function. In India Post Payments Bank, Mr. Sajjan has been a core member in setting up of the bank during initial days and has experience of setting up of Finance and Treasury Department and got various memberships like membership of Centralised Payments Systems, Scheduled status from RBI, GST etc. and implementation of other various systems and processes in Treasury, Finance and Human Resources Department. Prior to IPPB, he has experience of handling large Investment Portfolio and overseeing integrated Treasury Operations, Market Risk in IDBI Bank and Canara Bank. Mr Sajjan is a graduate in Mathematics and MBA from University of Rajasthan. He holds a CFA certificate from CFA Institute, USA and has certifications of CAIIB, IT Security, Diploma in Treasury, Investment & Risk Management and Diploma in Information System Audit from IIBF.

Shri Sajjan Kumar Saini

Shri Anoop ES
-CFO
Banking Professional with 17 years of experience in Banking in the areas of Finance and Accounts, Direct and Indirect Taxation, Risk Management, Treasury, Financial Planning and Budgeting, MIS and Branch Banking. Prior to IPPB, he has worked with Dhanlaxmi Bank & Karur Vysya Bank. He is a Member of Institute of Management Accountants (USA), Institute of Public Accountants (Australia) and Institute of Financial Accountants (UK). He is a commerce graduate from University of Calicut, Certified Management Accountant, CA Inter and PGDFM. He is also CAIIB, Certified Banking Compliance Professional and Certified Accounting and Audit Professional from IIBF. He is a hard-core soccer fan and a cinephile. When not crunching numbers, he loves to travel and listen to music.

Shri Anoop ES

Shri Davesh Kumar Shukla
-DGM (Legal)
Over 34 years of experience in banking industry dealing with NCLT, SARFAESI, HR issues, Credit, DRT cases etc. Prior to joining IPPB in 2019, he has worked predominantly in Corporate Office of industry major Punjab National Bank and its subsidiaries such as PNB Housing Finance Ltd. and PNB Capital Services Ltd., handling all the legal matters. He holds Diploma in Cyber Law and Intellectual Property Rights, also certified in Cyber Security from IDBRT. He has graduated in Law from Lucknow University and a certified associate of IIBF. He is assisted by Senior Manager (Legal), who has over a decade experience of handling legal matters in banking industry.

Shri Davesh Kumar Shukla

Shri Hitesh Sakhuja
-CTO
Information Technology Professional with experience of 20 years in managing Banking IT Setup, including Data centre Management, IT infrastructure , IT integration, Asset Management, Vendor Management, Budgeting , NPCI Payment systems , IT Processes, IT governance. He is a qualified B-tech Computer Science Graduate. Prior to IPPB, he has worked in IT domain in UCO Bank and Central Bank of India in various capacities. He is JAIIB, CAIIB, CISeB certified from IIBF
