Ananthakrishna, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Karnataka Bank Ltd. passed away in Mangaluru on Sunday. He was 74 and is survived by his wife and a son.
He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the bank from 2000 till 2009 and thereafter had continued as as the Non-Executive Chairman of the Bank for sometime.
Mr. Ananthakrishna hailed from Bantwal in Dakshina Kannada District. He was the Honorary Secretary of Indian Banks’ Association.
He began his career as a teacher in Deepika High School, Modankaup in Bantwal Taluk. Later he served as a lecturer at Manipal Institute of Technology. He moved over to Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Bengaluru as Junior Programmer before joining Karnataka Bank Ltd as an officer in 1971.
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