P S Jayakumar
Co-Founder, Non-Executive Chairman and Non-Executive Director.
Mr P. S. Jayakumar, is a Chartered Accountant and holds a post-graduate diploma in business management from XLRI Jamshedpur. He has deep experience in the banking sector and financial sector with 23 years of work experience with Citibank in their India and Singapore office.
On leaving Citibank in 2008, he worked as an entrepreneur and was a co-founder of Value Budget Housing Company, a leader in housing for a low and moderate-income household. In 2008, Mr Jayakumar also confounded Home First Finance Ltd, a housing finance company licensed by NHB and provides long term purchase money mortgage loans for customers from low and moderate-income household.
In 2015, Mr Jayakumar was selected by the Government of India to serve as the Managing Director and CEO for Bank of Baroda, the first person from the private sector selected to run a large public sector bank. He led a successful transformation of Bank of Baroda and completed a three-way merger between Bank of Baroda, Vijaya and Dena Bank. He was also awarded the ‘Banker of the Year’ by Financial Express for 2018.