Mr. Aashish Kamat
Independent Director
Mr. Aashish Kamat has over 32 years of experience in the corporate world, with 24 years being in banking and financial services, 6 years in public accounting and 2 years in Private Equity. Mr. Kamat, is currently the Co-managing Partner for the GCC Asia Growth Fund. Prior to this, his 24 years in banking have seen him hold various senior and regional roles covering wholesale, investment, private and consumer banking in India and overseas. Mr. Kamat was the Country Head for UBS India, from 2012 until his early retirement in January 2018. Prior to that he was the Regional COO/CFO for Asia Pacific at JP Morgan based out of Hong Kong. Before moving to Hong Kong, Mr. Kamat was in New York, where he was the Global Controller for the Investment Bank (IB) at JP Morgan in New York; and at Bank of America as the Global CFO for the IB, and, Consumer and Mortgage Products. Mr. Kamat started his career with Coopers & Lybrand, a public accounting firm, in 1988 before he joined JP Morgan in 1994.
In these various roles he has been responsible for all aspects of banking including client relationship management and deal origination, strategic and financial planning, regulatory management and reporting, all aspects of risk management (market, credit, operational including compliance), Business, product and legal entity controllership, balance sheet, RWA and capital management. His roles at JP Morgan and Bank of America also saw him participate as a member in various global and regional committees for Risk, Finance and Control, and Reputation.
Mr. Kamat holds a BA in Accounting from Franklin & Marshall College, USA and is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).