Jay Kotak is an Indian banker and entrepreneur who works at Kotak Mahindra as vice president of Kotak811. Jay is the elder son of Uday Kotak, the executive vice chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Wiki/Biography
Jay Uday Kotak was born on Monday, 11 September 1989 (age 33 years; as of 2022) in Mumbai. His zodiac sign is Virgo. In 1993, he enrolled at The Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, where he completed his schooling in 2007. In 2008, he enrolled at Columbia University in New York, US, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in arts in history in 2011. In 2010, he worked as a summer analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York. In 2012, he pursued accounting and law at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2015, he enrolled at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, where he earned a master’s degree in business administration in 2017.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 9″
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Dark Brown
Family
Jay Kotak belongs to a Gujarati business-class family, which belongs to the Lohana community.
Parents & Siblings
His father, Uday Kotak, is a banker, businessman, and the executive vice chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra.
A photo of Jay Kotak with Uday Kotak
His mother, Pallavi Uday Kotak, is an entrepreneur and a mountaineer, who trekked to the Everest base camp in 2014. His younger brother, Dhawal Kotak, is a Columbia Business School graduate.
A photo of Jay Kotak with his mother
A photo of Dhawal Kotak with Uday Kotak
Wife & Children
Jay Kotak is unmarried.
Fiancée
Jay Kotak is engaged to Aditi Arya, who was crowned Miss India in 2015. Jay revealed that Aditi was his fiancee in a congratulatory tweet in May 2023 after she completed her MBA at Yale University in the United States of America. According to several sources, Jay got engaged to Aditi in 2022 when the duo were visiting Paris, France.
Jay Kotak with his fiancée
Career
In 2011, Jay Kotak joined the Mumbai-based Infina Finance Private Limited, where he worked as an analyst till 2012. He was hired by McKinsey & Company in Mumbai in 2012 as a business analyst; he worked there till 2014. After completing his MBA, Jay joined Kotak Mahindra in Mumbai, where he worked as an associate till October 2019. From November 2019 to November 2021, Jay worked at Kotak Mahindra as an associate vice president. In November 2021, Jay Kotak was appointed as the Vice President (VP) of Kotak811.
Favourites
Facts/Trivia
- Jay Kotak has often voiced his opinion in favour of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during the Russia-Ukraine war.
A snapshot of Jay Kotak’s tweet
- Jay has often criticised the United States of America. In 2022, he posted a tweet in which he called the US “a nation in decay” for rising gun violence and inflation in the country.
A photo of Jay Kotak’s tweet