Mangalore: Mangalore based premier private sector Bank, The Karnataka Bank Ltd has appointed B A Prabhakar, Bangalore, as an Additional Director under Section 161 of the Companies Act, 2013. The above appointment has been made at the Board meeting held on September 6.

According to the press release, B A Prabhakar, is a commerce graduate from the University of Mysore and a Chartered Accountant. He retired as Chairman and Managing Director of Andhra Bank in August 2013 after serving various banks for about 37 years. Prior to that he had served as the Executive Director of Bank of India for a period of little over 3 years from October 2008 to December 2011. Before that, he had served Bank of Baroda from October 1977 to October 2008 having worked in all areas of banking. He also worked abroad for about eight years in stints at Zambia and U.K. He was the Chief Executive of Bank of Baroda, UK operations.

B A Prabhakar had served on various Boards representing the Banks he had worked. He was the Chairman of Bank of India (Tanzania) and Bank of India (Indonesia). He was also on the Board of Star Union Daichi Insurance Ltd, India International Bank (Malaysia) and ASREC India Ltd.