Mr. Salee Sukumaran Nair, a post graduate in Applied Electronics, started his banking career in the year 1987 when he joined India’s largest Public sector Bank, State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer. In a career span of more than 35 years, Shri Salee has handled various assignments, mostly in the Corporate A/c Group, handling large Corporates including the disparate groups of Reliance (Mukesh Group) and Essar Group. He also had two assignments in the International Banking group of SBI, first at New York, USA and later heading the Australian Operations based at Sydney. He has also had a retail stint managing the branches of Rajasthan & Western Uttar Pradesh for the bank and was involved in the merging of State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur with SBI. Mr. Salee has extensive experience in managing stressed assets, He took over as Chief General Manager (Non-lnfra) - Metals in the Stressed Asset Vertical of the Bank in July 2017, where he was engaged in resolving NPA through the restructuring / IBC /Compromise/ ARC Sale route. Subsequently, in April 2020 Mr. Salee took over as the Stressed Assets Resolution Group as Dy. Managing Director, a position he held until September 2021. In his term in the Stressed Assets Resolution Group of SBI , he oversaw the reduction of peak NPA of 10.96% to 4.90% by 03.09.2021. Presently he is the Dy. Managing Director & Chief Credit Officer located at the Bank’s Corporate Centre in Mumbai. In his present role he is responsible for managing the credit portfolio of SBI.