Kavish Arora to head corporate banking at DSP Merrill Lynch in India

DSP Merrill Lynch has appointed Kavish Arora as head of its corporate banking division in India.

"We are pleased to announce the appointment of Kavish Arora as head of corporate banking, India. In this role, he will report jointly to us", said Kevan Watts, country executive, India, and Scott Lampard, head of corporate banking, Asia Pacific. 

Kavish joined Bank of America in New Delhi in September 2004 as a principal with the Client Management Group and was named managing director and senior investment banker in February 2007. 

Prior to joining Bank of America, Kavish worked at Deutsche Bank for 10 years in the merchant banking division. Kavish began his career at Tata Engineering & Locomotive more than 23 years ago and also worked as an investment manager at Risk Capital & Technology Finance Corp (the RCTC/IFCI Venture Fund) and AF Ferguson.  

Kavish holds a BSc in engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. 

Kavish succeeds Asit Bhatia, who has informed DSP ML of his decision to leave the company after more than 21 years of service, to pursue other career and personal interests.