YES Bank Limited Appointment of Additional Independent Director (5229T)

TIDM16ER

RNS Number : 5229T

YES Bank Limited

23 July 2022

YBL/CS/2022-23/Int/13

July 23, 2022

 
 India International Exchange              The Singapore Exchange Securities 
  IFSC Limited                              Trading Limited 
  101 First Floor, Hiranandani Signature    2, Shenton Way #19-00 
  Tower,                                    SGX Centre 1, Singapore 068804 
  GIFT City IFSC - 382355, Gujarat, 
  India 
 The London Stock Exchange 
  10, Paternoster Square, 
  London, EC4M 7LS 
 

Dear Sirs,

   Sub.:   Appointment of Additional Independent Director - Indian Listing Regulations 

We are pleased to inform that the Board of Directors of the Bank at their meeting held today i.e. July 23, 2022 has approved the appointment of Mr. Rama Subramaniam Gandhi (DIN: 03341633 ) as an Additional Independent Director of the Bank for a period of five (5) years effective from today i.e. July 23, 2022, subject to approval of shareholders.

The brief profile of Mr. R. Gandhi is given in Annexure 1.

Further, please note that Mr. R. Gandhi is not related to any other Directors or Key Managerial Personnel of the Bank and he is not debarred from holding the office of a director, by virtue of any SEBI order or any other such authority/regulator.

The above is for your information and dissemination to all concerned.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully,

For YES BANK LIMITED

Shivanand R. Shettigar

Company Secretary

Encl: As above

Annexure 1

Brief Profile of Mr. R Gandhi

Mr. Gandhi is currently a financial sector policy expert and adviser. Currently, he advises banks, finance companies, fintech entities, payment system entities, investors and funds on subjects ranging from financial regulations and Indian economy. He is an independent director on the boards of several financial sector entities like bank, market infrastructure, account aggregator, information utility and fintech, among others. He is a prolific speaker and covers, including these areas, wide range of subjects.

Mr. Gandhi was a Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India for three years from 2014 to 2017. He had been a seasoned and accomplished central banker for 37 years. He had a three year secondment to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), the capital market regulator. He also held the charge of Director of the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology IDRBT), Hyderabad.

Mr. Gandhi has been associated with various committees, working groups and task forces, both domestic and international. He was one of the initial members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). He was a member of the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the Committee on Global Financial Systems (CGFS), Basle.

Mr. Gandhi has been educated in India and abroad. He has a master's degree in Economics from the Annamalai University, in Tamil Nadu, India. He also has post graduate level certificates in Management Information System from The American University, Washington DC, USA and in Capital Market from the City University of New York, New York, USA. His technical education includes a certificate course in System Programming from the IBM Education, Sydney, Australia. He also has a certificate in Gandhian Thoughts from the Madurai University, Tamil Nadu, India. He was born in 1956.

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