Mr. C R Sasikumar is a Retired Banker from State Bank of India as Deputy Managing Director with 39 years of service. His last assignment in SBI was as the Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore where he drove the buy-in of all the stakeholders, clients, staff, etc. for the seamless and smooth merger process to State Bank of India. Prior to this, he has served as Deputy Managing Director (Inspection & Management Audit), responsible for Internal Audit of SBI. He has also served as MD of SBI SG Global Securities and CEO SBI Shangai. He was responsible for the short-term and medium- term strategy of the 1300 branches in the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and was responsible for planning, budgeting, implementation, and evaluation of performance on a periodical basis and taking corrective steps wherever warranted, to achieve the budgeted goal.