Fact Box - 5 (VIKRAM PANDIT)

Few days back, when i was doing my routine newspaper scanning, i came across a news which caught my attention. The news was about Citibank top job. Let me make it clear, Actually the news was about the next CEO of CITI BANK and the 2 people who were vying for the post were from two different countries. The countries are India and its archrival Pakistan. But its not a cricket game, neither hockey or football for that matter. But still i had a sense of patriotism and wanted to see Pandit as a winner. Not only he is an India but also he has wide and relevant experience for this job. His competitor, Mr. Shaukat Aziz (former Paki PM) surely has versatile experience but i feel he is more suitable for diplomatic and country specific jobs instead of cut throat competitive corporate sector jobs.
And Todat i saw that my favourite Mr. Pandit is the new CEO of CITI BANK global. Welcome Mr. Pandit to the new job. Its true that you are promoted at the tough time but i hope you would serve me better ( I have a bank Account in CITI BANK :D ). So the Fact Box series no. 5 is welcome gesture for Mr. Pandit from me...

Vital Stattistics|
Married Swathi Sathaye on August 2, ’86 | Two children, Rahul (15) and Maya (13) | Lives in a plush 10-room apartment in New York overlooking Central Park. Bought it earlier this year for $17.5 million | Loves photography, cooks occasionally with his wife, is a devotee of Gajanan Maharaj
BORN | January 14, 1957, at Dhantoli, Nagpur
SCHOOLS ATTENDED | Parsi Youth Assembly, Dadar, Mumbai | Baroda High School, Baroda | Mombassa, Kenya | Bishop Cotton, Nagpur | Johan Bowne, US
UNIVERSITY | MS, Electrical Engineering; PhD, Finance, both from Columbia University
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS | Joined Morgan Stanley in 1983 as an associate and worked there for two decades in various capacities: President and COO, institutional securities & investment banking group (2000-2005); MD and head of worldwide institutional equities (1994-2000); MD and head of US equity syndicate (1990-1994) | Left Morgan Stanley in March 2005 to start Old Lane, a hedge fund, which was bought by Citigroup in 2007 for $800 million
AT THE TOP | CEO, Citigroup, which has over 3 lakh employees, operates in more than 100 countries and has assets worth $2 trillion. It ranks 8 on Fortune’s list of the biggest companies in the world. PepsiCo, headed by another Indian, Indra Nooyi, ranks 63rd; Vodafone with Arun Sarin at the helm is No 95