Kamath Kundapur Vaman

Kundapur Vaman Kamath, commonly referred to as K.V. Kamath, has served as the chairman of Infosys Limited, the second-largest Indian IT services company, and as the Non-Executive Chairman of ICICI Bank, India's largest private bank. Kamath also served as ICICI Bank's managing director and CEO from 1 May 1996 until his retirement from executive responsibilities on 30 April 2009.

Kamath took charge as the Chairman of Infosys from N R Narayana Murthy on 21 August 2011. Before serving in this position, he was the Non-Executive Chairman of the company from 2 May 2011.

Kamath also serves as an independent director on the boards of the Houston-based oil services company Schlumberger and the Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Lupin. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University.

Early life
Kamath was born on 2 December 1947 in a Konkani speaking Gaud Saraswat Brahmin family (GSB) in Mangalore Karnataka, where he spent most of his early years. After completing Higher Secondary and Pre-University from St. Aloysius College, he joined the Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC, now called National Institute of Technology Karnataka) in Surathkal for a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating from KREC in 1969, he joined the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) for a Masters Degree in Business Administration.

Career
After graduating from IIM-A in 1971, Kamath started his career with ICICI (Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India) in the Project Finance division and moved on to different departments to gather experience, including establishing new business lines such as leasing, venture capital, and credit ratings as well as handling general management responsibilities. As part of his general management responsibilities, he initiated and implemented ICICI's computerisation program. Substantial investments in technology from those early years have resulted in systems that are today a competitive advantage for ICICI. Kamath has generally been credited with expanding ICICI's businesses to evolve it into a technology-enabled financial organisation catering to the financial needs of corporate and retail customers.

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