India's Axis Bank says finance chief Puneet Sharma to exit (updated)
UPDATE 2-India's Axis Bank says finance chief Puneet Sharma to exit Adds details from paragraph 2 onwards
June 29 (Reuters) - India's Axis Bank AXBK.NS on Monday said its chief financial officer, Puneet Sharma, had resigned on June 28 after more than six years at the private lender, with his last working day set for August 31.
The finance industry veteran was previously at Tata Capital.
At Axis Bank, besides finance, Sharma also oversaw its legal and investor relations functions, according to the lender's website. Under his tenure, stock prices nearly doubled to 1,356.80 rupees, as of Monday's close.
The bank said Sharma resigned to pursue the next phase of his professional career. It did not provide other details or name a successor in Monday's exchange filing.
(Reporting by Chandini Monnappa; Additional reporting by Kashish Tandon in Bengaluru; Editing by Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Janane Venkatraman)
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