Kundapur Vaman Kamath (K.V. Kamath) is an Indian banker who served as the Chairman of ICICI Bank. He had a long career in banking and financial services, working for ICICI for over 20 years in various leadership roles. In 2011, he was appointed as the non-executive Chairman of Infosys, a major Indian IT company. Kamath has received several prestigious awards and honors for his contributions and leadership in the banking and financial sectors.

1. KUNDAPUR
VAMAN
KAMATH
(K.V.KAMATH)
By:-
VIVEK

2. Childhood
 Kamath was born on December 2, 1947 into a Goud
Saraswat Brahmin family, in Mangalore, Karnataka
where he spent most of his early years.
 After completing Higher Secondary and Pre-
University from St. Aloysius School, he joined the
Karnataka Regional Engineering College (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.

3. 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
which included setting up of new businesses such as
leasing, venture capital, credit rating as well as handling
general management positions.
 As part of his general management responsibilities he
initiated and implemented ICICI's computerisation
programme. Substantial investments in technology from the
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.

4.  In 1988, Kamath joined the Asian Development
Bank, Manila in their Private Sector Department. His
principal work experience at ADB was in various
projects in
China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Bangladesh and
Vietnam. He was the ADB representative on the
Boards of several companies.

5.  In May 1996, Kamath returned to ICICI as its
Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer. Kamath was instrumental in expanding
the Group's services to the retail customers.
He initiated a process of a series of
acquisitions of non-banking finance companies
in 1996-98, and led the way to the formation of
ICICI Bank.
 Now, on 2nd may 2011 he is appointed as
non-executive chairman of the second-largest
software exporter, Infosys Ltd (earlier Infosys
Technologies Ltd)

6. Goals management
 There is a strong relationship between a
successful company and an effective goal
setting process. By setting goals, specifically
SMART goals, employers engage their
workforce and encourage employees across
the company to focus and successfully
achieve these goals together.
 Goal management also lets you establish a
true pay-for-performance culture by
communicating the company goals to
employees, therefore providing the
groundwork for linking reward systems with
individual and / or team performance.

7. Professionalism
Proffesional, Management of
Sales, Marketing, Operations, Product
Launch etc., with broad experience in all
aspects of Branding, Promotion, Sales
Forecasting, Analysis, Report Generation.
Direct experience with FMCG, Telecom-
ISP, Loyalty and Retail Sector.Interested in
early-stage startups as well as established
companies, loves to take challenges and
consistantly stirve for excellence in
whatever i do...

8. Specialties
Strong Clientele
Relationship/Reference, Planning and
Forecasting at a Strategic Level. New
direction to the segment of Corporate
Gifting...

9. KV Kamath's Experience
 Senior Manager Marketing
Lifestyle International Pvt Ltd
2008 – Present (4 years)
 Senior Manager Sales & Marketing
Lifestyle International
Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Retail industry
December 2007 – Present (4 years 5 months)
Managing Business Portfolio of Gift Vouchers for
Lankmark Group on a Pan India basis.
Planning & Implementation of Brand at Strategic
Level,

10.  Regional Acquisition Manager
Loyalty Solutions & Research Ltd
January 2007 – December 2007 (1 year)
Rollout of Coalition Loyalty Programme (imint)in
Bangalore.
Appointment of Channel PArtners, Merchant
Acquisition, etc.,
 Sales Manager
TATA Communications Ltd. (fka VSNL)
Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; TCL;
Telecommunications industry
2004 – 2006 (2 years)
 Sales Incharge
Hindustan Lever Ltd
Privately Held; 10,001+ employees; Consumer
Goods industry
1997 – 2004 (7 years)

11. Personal life
 Kamath presently resides in Mumbai. He is
married to Rajalaxmi and has a son, Ajay Kamath
and a daughter, Ajnya Kamath Pai. He has two
grandsons, Nandan K. Pai and Lakshan K. Pai
who reside in the United States.

12. Awards
 Most e-savvy CEO amongst Asian banks - The Asian
Banker Journal of Singapore
 Finance Man of the Year award - The Mumbai Management
Association
 Best CEO for Innovative HR practices - World HRD
Congress
 Asian Business Leader of the Year - Asian Business Leader
Award 2001 (CNBC Asia)
 Outstanding Business Leader of the Year - CNBC-
TV18, 2006
 Businessman of the Year - Business India, 2005
 Business Leader Award of the Year - The Economic
Times, 2007
 Businessman of the Year - Forbes Asia
 Padma Bhushan award from the Indian government - 2008

13. Our Vision
To help our clients meet their goals
through our people, services and
solutions

14. Our Mission
Infosys International Inc. is dedicated to providing
the people, services and solutions our clients need
to meet their information technology challenges and
business goals.
 Work to understand the needs and requirements of
our clients before proposing a solution
 Develop responsive proposals that provide cost-
effective solutions to our clients needs
 Deploy the right mix of people and products to
deliver value-added services and solutions to our
clients
 Follow-up on the quality of our services and
solutions to our clients
 Appreciate the trust that our clients put in us as we
work with them to improve their business and
information technology.

15. Board membership
 Kamath is a Member of the Governing Board on
various educational institutions including the
Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad, Indian School of Business, National
Institute of Bank Management, Pandit Deendayal
Petroleum University, Gandhinagar Manipal
Academy of Higher Education. Kamath is also a
Member of the National Council of Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII). KV Kamath was elected to
the Board of Directors on Infosys Ltd on May
2, 2009 and on 30 April 2011 it was announced
that he will take the Chairmanship of Infosys
Limited on 21 August 2011.

16. Chairman of the Board
Kundapur Vaman Kamath is currently an
Independent Director on the Board of
Infosys. He is the Non-Executive Chairman
of the Board of Directors of ICICI Bank
Limited, India’s second largest bank.
Kamath has a degree in mechanical
engineering as well as one in management
studies from the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad.

17. Kamath was awarded the Padma
Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian
honors, in 2008. He was given the Lifetime
Achievement Award at the NDTV Profit
Business Leadership Awards 2008; was
named ‘Businessman of the Year’ by Forbes
Asia and The Economic Times ‘Business
Leader of the Year’ in 2007; Business
Standard’s ‘Banker of the Year’ and CNBC-
TV18′s ‘Outstanding Business Leader of the
Year’ in 2006; Business India’s
‘Businessman of the Year’ in 2005; and
CNBC’s ‘Asian Business Leader of the Year’
in 2001. He has been given an honorary
Ph.D. by the Banaras Hindu University

18.  Speaking on the occasion Mr. K. V. Kamath
said, “Infosys is a company which has been
built by its founders, led by the visionary
leader Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, who as
its Chief Executive Officer & Managing
Director and then as its Chairman and
Chief Mentor, provided Infosys its thought
leadership over the years. This is an
innovation-led company, with a core of
outstanding professionals that has always
set the highest standards and has built a
unique culture. I feel greatly honoured to
have been asked to be the Chairman of
Infosys by the Board of Directors and
accept this responsibility with a deep
sense of humility.”

19. Thank you