Mr. Sanker Parameswaran is a Corporate Lawyer with over three decades of diverse experience in well-known Indian companies engaged in manufacturing & marketing of fast moving consumer products (FMCG), hospitality industry, telecom sector and private equity. His last assignment being General Counsel & Company Secretary of India’s largest private bank ICICI Bank. He retired in February 2020 as Legal Advisor to the Bank.
His first-hand experience in handling diverse matters as a Company Secretary to several high profile Boards together with an innate ability to manage change through tough regulatory and economic environments will add value to the deliberations at the Board level. He has played a key role in industry representations to governments for advocating changes to regulatory regime to facilitate ease of doing business.
Mr. Parameswaran’s academic credentials include a LLM in Commercial Law from Mumbai University followed by Associate Membership of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He started his career as a Probationary Officer with Indian Bank in 1982. Since then he has been General Counsel & Company Secretary for over 3 decades in well-known companies such as Godrej Agrovet, Marico, Colgate Palmolive, Reliance Infocom, Indian Hotels. In 2010 he joined the ICICI Group and in 2012 took over as General Counsel & Company Secretary of ICICI Bank.