SBI appoints Pradeep Kumar as MD Corporate Banking

Country's biggest lender State Bank of India has appointed P Pradeep Kumar as its Managing Director (Corporate Banking).
Kumar, as one of the four managing directors, will look after the corporate banking portfolio of the bank.
"...With effect from December 27, as per notification of government of India, P Pradeep Kumar will be the Managing Director & Group Executive (Corporate Banking) of State Bank of India (SBI)," the bank today said in a statement.
Kumar, a post graduate in statistics, joined SBI in 1976 as a probationary officer and held several key assignments including the bank's US operations. He also served as the managing director of State Bank of Travancore.

Before moving to the present assignment, Kumar was deputy managing director and group executive of the corporate banking group, which looks after corporate accounts and project finance of the bank.