Shyam Srinivasan has been appointed as the managing director and chief executive officer (CEO) of Federal Bank.

Srinivasan has experience of having worked for many leading multinational banks in India and abroad covering Middle East and South East Asia. He has bounty of experience in the field of retail banking, wealth management and SME banking.

Before joining Federal Bank, he was working with Standard Chartered Bank, in its Consumer franchise in Malaysia. He worked there mainly on widening in the revenue generation models of the bank wherein the profitability of the bank saw a steep rise. He also aided in developing a stong team having local employees.

He is an alumnus of IIM-Kolkata and an engineer from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapally.He has completed a Leadership Development Program from the London Business School and has served on the Global Executive Forum (the top 100 executives) of Standard Chartered Bank from 2004 to 2010.