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” |