Nandita Bakshi has been appointed President and CEO of ‘Bank of the West’, Corporate Headquarters in San Francisco, California.
She joins the Bank of April 01st as CEO-in-training on April 01st and will take the helm officially on June 01st, 2016
Bank of the West is a unit of the French banking giant BNP Paribas. The California based Bank operates more than 600 retail, wealth, commercial and business banking offices in 22 states.
Bakshi previously held Senior positions at:
EVP Head of Consumer Banking – TD Bank (New Jersey), EVP and Head – North American Direct Channels
Executive positions at :
Washington Mutual, Seattle (Washington – now JP Morgan Chase), Fleet Boston (now Bank of America), First Data Corp, Home Savings of America and Banc One Corp.
Nandita Bakshi did her Bachelors in History, University of Calcutta and Masters in International Relations & Affairs, Jadavpur University (West Bengal)