Rakesh Singh

Rakesh Singh is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Aditya Birla Finance Limited. He also serves as a Director on the Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited board. He has more than 27 years of experience in the financial services industry, cutting across Banking and Non-Banking financial institutions.

Rakesh is a part of several industry forums, including the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. In addition, he lends his expertise as a FICCI’s Banking and Financial Institutions Committee member. He is also on the board as a Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies member.

Before joining Aditya Birla Finance Limited in July 2011, Rakesh spent 16 years with Standard Chartered Bank. He started with a role in Retail Assets (Mumbai and Kolkata) and then became the Head for Mortgages, India. His last assignment with Standard Chartered Bank was as General Manager & Head SME Banking, India and South Asia.

Rakesh has attended advanced management programs at Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, and holds a post-graduation degree in International Relations.