Anup Purohit

Senior President and Chief Information Officer – YES BANK Ltd.

Full Name	Anup Purohit
Current Designation & Role	Senior President and Chief Information Officer
Current Company Name	YES BANK Ltd.
Past Company Names	RBL Bank, Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, IBM
No of Years in the IT Industry	23+ yrs
City you live in currently and since when	Mumbai for last 40 yrs
Native Town/ City you belong	Mumbai
Mother Tongue	Hindi
Language you are proficient with	Hindi and English
Educational Details	B.E. Electronics from Mumbai University
Awards and Recognitions Received CIO	Many
Gadgets you love the most and why	My Iphone. Lifeline 😊
What makes you laugh	Witty jokes and light sense of humor
Current book you are reading and what you love about it	Sapien
Books you enjoyed reading the most	Lots of them
Software company you admire and why	None
Hardware company your admire and why	None
IT personality you admire and why	Steve Job. His ability to think deep and make things really simple and most useful, his arrogance in making things happen at any cost, constantly searching for the better ways to do things, eliminating things he don’t like and persistent at keeping the things he found interesting , keep it simple and stupid.
Your best moment in your career till date	Many. Cannot explain any one
Your best moment in personal life	Many. Cannot explain any one
Music You Like	Old hindi classical and Kishore Kumar
Movies You Like	many
Most Liked Travel Destination	Dalhousie
Why do you like your job	Dynamism and challenges which thrives me
Most favorite quote	“I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have generation of an idiots”

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