{"id":230694,"date":"2025-02-03T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/veteran-banker-victor-menezes-passes-away-at-77\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T09:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:02:04","slug":"veteran-banker-victor-menezes-passes-away-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/veteran-banker-victor-menezes-passes-away-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran banker Victor Menezes passes away at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-117882863,imgsize-4032.cms?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Veteran banker Victor Menezes passes away at 77\" title=\"Veteran banker Victor Menezes passes away at 77\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"16\">Veteran banker <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/victor-menezes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Menezes<\/a>, one of the earliest India-origin CXOs to lead storeyed multinationals, has died in the US at the age of 77, sources said on Monday. The Pune-born Menezes, an alumnus of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/iit-bombay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IIT-Bombay<\/a> and <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIT<\/a>, had a 32-year-long association with <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/citibank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citibank<\/a> and retired as the global banking major&#8217;s senior vice chairman. <\/p>\n<p><style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1--> Menezes died in <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/miami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Miami<\/a>, sources said. However, the exact reasons for his death were not immediately known. <\/p>\n<p> After getting a degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in 1970, Menezes went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US for a business school degree. <\/p>\n<p> He joined Citibank as a corporate banker soon after his b-school degree and worked across all continents during his stint with the financial services entity. <\/p>\n<p>Menezes, the son of a civil servant Manuel Menezes and brother of former Diageo chief executive officer Ivan Menezes, was actively involved in various philanthropic initiatives. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/include_growfast.cms?pagename=article&skipcss=1potime:1--><br \/> In 2011, he donated USD 3 million to IIT-Bombay to help set up a convention centre in the premier tech school in Mumbai.  <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/indian-business-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indian business leader<\/a> Kiran Mazumdar Shaw of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/biocon-ltd\/stocks\/companyid-2082.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">Biocon<\/a> mourned Menezes&#8217; death, calling him a wonderful and wise colleague at MIT Corporation who will be missed for his intellect.  Menezes is survived by wife Tara, a former beauty queen, and four children.<\/p>\n<div data-type=\"twitter\" data-handle=\"kiranshaw\" data-handlename=\"kiranshaw\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" data-retweetcount=\"0\" data-id=\"1886257518311346553\">\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\u2014 kiranshaw (@kiranshaw) <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kiranshaw\/status\/1886257518311346553\" rel=\"nofollow\"\/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style><![CDATA[\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand p, #stock_pro.onDemand p{font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.28;}\n    \t    .onDemand .live_stock{left:17px;padding:1px 3px 1px 5px;font-size:12px;font-weight:600;line-height:18px;top:9px}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{margin:0 auto 0;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc{color: #024d99;margin-top:10px;}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .crypto .live_stock .lb-icon{8px 6px 5px 3px !important}\n    \t    #sr_widget.crypto.onDemand a.text{border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;padding-bottom:5px;display:block;width:100%}\n    \t    #sr_widget.onDemand .sr_desc .text p, #stock_pro.onDemand .sr_desc .text p{font-size:12px;font-weight:400;}\n    \t]]><\/style>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:1--><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/veteran-banker-victor-menezes-passes-away-at-77\/articleshow\/117882863.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran banker Victor Menezes, one of the earliest India-origin CXOs to lead storeyed multinationals, has died in the US at the age of 77, sources said on Monday. The Pune-born Menezes, an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and MIT, had a 32-year-long association with Citibank and retired as the global banking major&#8217;s senior vice chairman. 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