TA K

K O
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● Date of birth : 15 march,1959.

● He was born in mumbai, india.

● He was born in upper middle class

family
 EDUCATION

● Kotak completed his schooling in Hindi

Vidya Bhavan.

● Uday completed his college and received

his B.com degree from Sydenham College
of Commerce and Economics.
 Life as a Cricketer
● Since his childhood, he was passionate
about cricket and also passionate about
mathematics.
● Uday has held the cricket teams’
captainship in school and college. Kotak
played the Kanga League in Mumbai.
● He wanted to build his career as a cricketer.
Uday was a good cricketer—a left-hand
spinner and a right-hand batsman.

● In September 1979, the ball hit his head

when he was running between the wickets
at the Kanga League held in Azad Maidan,
Mumbai, and immediate surgery to stop the
brain hemorrhage and left him bed-ridden for
few months
● The incident not only cost him a year but
also marked the end of his cricket dreams.
 Personal Life of uaday
kotak
● He married with pallavi kotak in 1985.

● They have two children’s.

( Jai kotak and dhawal kotak)
Entrepreneur Journey
begins
● While doing his MBA, Kotak decided to
start out on his own, in the early 1980s, on
his father’s insistence, Kotak started his
own small financial agency at Navsari
building premise from a 300 sq. ft. office
space that his father offered him and said:
“Son, you do what you want.
● After getting huge success, Uday decided to
establish something big. At the age of 23,
Uday initiated Kotak Capital Management
Finance Ltd, a financial consultancy, which
later became Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd.
 Career of Uday Kotak
● Over the next few years, Kotak
diversified his financial consultancy
business into various areas of financial
services, establishing a prominent
presence in investment banking, bills
discounting, stockbroking, mutual
funds, life insurance, and car finance.
 Uday Kotak: eminent as a
self-made billionaire banker.
● On 22 March 2003, Kotak Mahindra Finance Ltd
received a banking license from Reserve Bank of
India.
● In India’s corporate history, this is the first
non-banking finance company in India who
received a banking license and transform into a
bank from a non-banking finance company.
● Kotak collected ₹ 30 lakh to start an NBFC
in 1980 for bill discounting. His investment
in Hutchison Essar of ₹ 2 crore investment
in 1998 fetched him ₹ 1,019 crores in
2006.
 Kotak Mahindra Bank – a
story of evolution.

● In 2014, Kotak converted a bill-discounting

business into a financial services
conglomerate and become the 2nd largest
scheduled commercial bank in India by
market capitalization with more than 1270
branches.
● In 2015, Kotak Mahindra Bank had
partnered with the telco-giant Airtel and
ventured into general insurance to start a
small payments bank.
Achievement and
awards
● 2014 – Named Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur.
● 2014 – Become chairman of IL&FS.
● 2015 – Sole Indian Financier to feature in Money Masters
● 2016 – Most Powerful People in The Financial World.
● 2017 – Ranked 8th in India’s 50 most powerful people.
● 2017 – Businessman of the year by Economic Times.
● 2018 – Named “Best CEOs in the World”
● 2018 – E&Y World Entrepreneur
● 2019 – CNBC Innovator of the Year
● 2019 – One of the most highly paid CEO among the Indian banks.