Anand Kumar has been working for more than three & half decades with the financial services in India, United Kingdom, Singapore and Middle East regions. Among other assignments, he contributed in setting up retail and banking operations of ICICI Bank in UK. He was Regional and Zonal Manger, Head of Retail Banking - ICICI Bank UK and later on spearheaded International Business of ICICI Lombard UK covering GCC and other geographies. Subsequently he worked with Bank of Baroda UK as Advisor Strategic Initiatives & Head - Retail Banking.
He helped in setting up Union Bank of India (UK) Ltd subsidiary in London and served its Board for seven years as Executive Director & Deputy Chief Executive. From July 1, 2020 he has transited from his executive role to Non -Executive Director role with Union Bank of India (UK)Ltd. He has been also working as Member -Board of Supervisors, First Microfinance Bank, Afghanistan from December 2019.
He is Fellow of Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment UK and was also a member of Microfinance Club UK (served as Director Microfinance Club UK board for two years). Apart from his association with NSPCC, Save the Children, he is founder of Kusum Foundation in Bihar, India. The Foundation has been providing vocational education to the rural children for last 12 years, it has skilled more than 5,000 students comprising of 60% girls from rural centres.
He is a PhD, MBA, LLB, PGDBM, and Dip in training & development. He had been a visiting fellow to the Business School, University of Greenwich, and London, UK for 12 years. He has been also on the committee for moderating papers for compliance examination conducted by CISI, UK.
He enjoys swimming, yoga (Art of Living), cycling, and reading, watching documentaries/movies and travelling. He is London Marathon runner. He is happily married and having one daughter.
