Punjab National Bank Chairman List (1895-2026), PNB Chairman List

Hello Aspirants, If you are preparing the govt exam in India and want to know about the Punjab National Bank Chairman List since this bank was started. You have come at right place where we will discuss about the list of the PNB chairman since establishment year.

Punjab National Bank is the 2nd largest public sector bank in India and millions of the customer joined this organization. Nowadays this bank is in the profited and numbers of the banking services are provided by this nationalized bank.

Punjab National Bank Chairman List (1895-2026)

Below are the list of CEO, MD and Chairman list by the official website of the PNB. For govt jobs preparation aspirants must check the below link in sequence. The Sardar Dyal Singh was the first Chairman and MD of the Punjab National bank. In the govt exam mainly the questions are formed from the establishment year as well as the tag line.

S.No. Names of Chairman & Managing Director S/Shri Period
1 Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia 1895 – 1898
2 R.B. Lal Chand 1898 – 1905
3 Bhagat Ishwar Dass 1905 – 1910
4 R.B. Lal Chand 1911 – 1912
5 R.B. Lala Sukh Dayal 1912 – 1913
6 Bhagat Ishwar Dass 1913 – 1915
7 Dr. Hira Lal 1917 – 1920
8 Lala Dhanpat Rai 1921 – 1931
9 Dr. Maharaj Krishna Kapur 1931 – 1937
10 R.B. Dewan Badri Das 1938 – 1942
11 Lala Yodh Raj 1943 – 1953
12 Shriyans Prasad Jain 1953 – 1954
13 Shanti Prasad Jain 1954 – 1959
14 Ram Nath Goenka 1960 – 1964
15 Kamalnayan Bajaj 1964 – 1967
16 Somesh Chandra Trikha 1968 – 1972
17 Prakash Tandon 1972 – 1975
18 T.R. Tuli 1975 – 1977
19 O.P. Gupta 1977 – 1980
20 S.L. Chopra 1980 – 1981
21 S.L. Baluja 1981 – 1985
22 J.S. Varshneya 1985 – 1989
23 Rashid Jilani 1990 – 2000
24 S.S. Kohli 2000 – 2005
25 S.C. Gupta 2005 – 2007
26 Dr. K.C. Chakrabarty 2007 – 2009
27 K.R. Kamath 2009- 2014
S.No Names of Managing Director & CEO S/Shri Period
1 Gauri Shankar (vested with additional charge of MD & CEO) 2015 (9th Feb – 13th Aug)
2 Usha Ananthasubramanian 14th Aug 2015- 5th May 2017
3 Sunil Mehta 5th May 2017 – 30th Sep 2019
4 Shri Ch. S. S. Mallikarjuna Rao 1st Oct 2019 – 31st Jan 2022
5 Shri Atul Kumar Goel 1st Feb 2022 – 31st Dec 2024
6 Shri Ashok Chandra 16th Jan 2025 (continuing)

About the PNB Bank Details

  • Establishment: 1894
  • Headquarters: New Delhi
  • Type: Public Sector Bank
  • MD & CEO: Ashok Chandra
  • Tagline: “The Name You Can Bank Upon”
  • Official Website: https://pnb.bank.in/
  • Sector: Banking & Financial Services
  • Ownership: Government of India
 
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