Gulf International Bank (2018 - Present) Rajeev Kakar is an Indian banker, serial business founder and entrepreneur.

With over three decades of experience in the banking industry, Rajeev has worked and lived as both a Fullerton Financial Holdings and Citibank international expatriate officer in several global markets, especially in the high-growth, emerging CEEMEA and ASIA-PACIFIC countries, based out of India, Egypt, Turkey, UAE and Singapore.

He additionally ran this Non Bank Finance Company as the Founder Managing Director and CEO, till 2000, acquiring the highest share of the market at that time.

Prior to this role, between 1993 and 1996, based first out of Mumbai and then Chennai, Rajeev was the Marketing Director for Citibank India for both its domestic businesses as well as Citibank India’s Non-Resident Indian Banking Business operating across the world out of over 20 centers, covering NRI customers in 145 countries.

Kakar completed a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.