Avtar Monga

Chief Operating Officer

IDFC Bank

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About

Avtar Monga has been associated with Financial/Banking industry for almost 38 years and has worked with some of the best global enterprises at the leadership positions both for India as well as Global level. He has spent considerable amount of time with Bank of America, first as part of their India business and later establishing and scaling their Global Delivery Centres of Expertise as its Managing Director. He has also been part of GE Capital India where he spearheaded SBI Card JV as well as transport Financial Services as CEO. More recently, he has been Chief Operating Officer/Executive Director/Head Retail Bank with IDFC Bank and was instrumental in launching the bank and building it as a key player in the fintech space. 

He has been closely involved while at IDFC and even in personal capacity to promote digital as well support Fintech and is also an Angel Investor.  

He is passionate about building leadership and has been mentoring several successful industry leaders as well as advising few global and local start-ups.

He holds a Master’s Degree in commerce as well as an MBA in Marketing and Finance and also is a Fellow member of Institute of Directors.