Finance Asia ranks HDFC Bank's Aditya Puri India's best CEO

07 May 2009

Mumbai: HDFC Bank's managing director Aditya Puri has been ranked as India's Best CEO (overall) in Finance Asia magazine's annual poll of investors and analysts.

Puri beat peers like Infosys Technology, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries to take the top spot in this year's poll.

Finance Asia conducts annual polls to rank Asia's top companies in different categories, including those with the Best CEO.

In the 'best managed company' category, HDFC Bank ranked third  behind Infosys Technology and Bharti Airtel but ahead of Larsen & Toubro, Reliance Industries, and Tata Consultancy.

In the 'best corporate governance' category, HDFC Bank ranked at the second spot behind Infosys Technologies but ahead of Bharti Airtel, L&T, and Tata Consultancy, who ranked third, fourth and fifth respectively.

HDFC Bank ranked third in the 'best investor relations' category, behind Infosys and Bharti (in that order).