Smt. Vandana Bhagavatula, Shareholder Director, Punjab National Bank

Smt. Vandana Bhagavatula has been deemed elected as Shareholder Director on the Board of the Bank with effect from 29.08.2025.

Smt. Bhagavatula, is a Bachelor of Commerce, Chartered Accountant (FCA) and also holds a Diploma in Information Systems Audit (DISA). She has knowledge/ experience in Accountancy, Banking, Finance and Audit.

She has 25 years of experience and has worked in various organizations at Senior Executive positions. At present, she is a Non-Executive Independent Woman Director at Shakti Pumps (India) Limited, a leading manufacturer of energy-efficient and high-performance pumping solutions and an Honorary Advisor to Dr. S. Natarajan’s - Sundaram Natarajan Blind Free India Foundation.

She has also been engaged with HDFC Bank Limited as Vice President, Compliance from May 2022 to September 2022. Prior to this, she was a Director at Aneja Associates from 2019 till May 2022 and was responsible for an entire gamut of audit activities for banking, financial services and software & technologies audit.

Earlier in her career, she was the proprietress at VB & Associates, Chartered Accountants, Mumbai. Her responsibilities included audit, tax planning, due diligence and other ancillary matters.