Sandeep Bakhshi, the new Chief Operating Officer of ICICI Bank, was serving as chief of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance since August 2010. Bakhshi, a mechanical engineer and an XLRI alumni, started his ICICI career in 1986 and headed ICICI Lombard General Insurance between March 2007 and April 2009. The 57-year-old had cleared the National Defence Academy but didn't pursue it.