Samit Ghosh
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- Founder of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
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| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) Dhanbad, India |
| Education | Wharton School (MBA) |
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Samit Ghosh is an Indian business executive, who founded Ujjivan Financial Services Limited, and was its managing director and chief executive officer until 31 January 2017, when he accepted an equivalent role with subsidiary Ujjivan Small Finance Bank.[1] He was CEO of Ujjivan Financial Services until 2017, and now its non-executive chairman.[2][3]
Samit Ghosh was born in 1949 to Dr. Sailendra Kumar. Ghosh spent a large part of his early years in Dhanbad. His father was a doctor who served the Indian Army during World War II and set up a number of government hospitals in the poor coal mining areas near Dhanbad.[4] He lost his father at age of 10. His mother was a professor in Sri Shikshyatan College.[5] Ghosh completed his undergraduate in economics from St. Xavier's College in Kolkata and Master of Business Administration in finance from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, United States.[6]