ICICI Bank board begins search for new chairman
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MUMBAI: The board of ICICI Bank has begun looking for a new chairman as the term of the incumbent, MK Sharma, expires at the end of this month and he may not want a second term. Veteran banker and former Bank of Baroda chairman and managing director MD Mallya is the frontrunner to succeed Sharma, two people aware of the development said. Mallya was appointed to the ICICI Bank board on May 29.
“The ICICI Bank board was of the opinion that the bank needs a qualified former banker for the position in this time of crisis. Nothing is final yet, but looks like Mallya is the favourite,” one of the people said.
Sources also told ET that while a few board members want current chairman MK Sharma, 70, to continue for some time, he has expressed his unwillingness. But if the board is unable to find a successor soon, Sharma may have to continue as chairman, sources in the know said. He was appointed as non-executive chairman of the bank on July 1, 2015, for a period of three years.
The maximum age of appointment of non-executive directors has been capped at 75 years. People in the know also said that the Reserve Bank of India expressed reservation over a name for the position of chairmanship that the board had proposed previously. ET could not ascertain independently the name the bank had proposed.
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