Jay Kotak

Some Lesser Known Facts About Jay Kotak

• Jay Kotak is an Indian banking professional and a businessman who served at Kotak811 as its Vice President (VP). His father is the founder of the Kotak Mahindra Bank. He hit the headlines in May 2023 after he revealed that he was engaged to Aditi Arya.

• Jay was born into a business-class family tracing its roots back to Gujarat.

• He was hired by Goldman Sachs in New York in 2010. He worked there for less than a year as a summer analyst.

• From 2011 to 2012, Jay worked at Infina Finance Private Limited as an analyst.

• From 2012 to 2014, he rendered his services as a business analyst to McKinsey & Company in Mumbai.

• In 2017, Jay started working at Kotak Mahindra in Mumbai as an associate, a position he held till October 2019.

• At Kotak Mahindra, Jay was promoted to associate vice president in November 2019. He held the post till November 2021.

• He became Kotak811’s Vice President (VP) in November 2021.

• On numerous occasions, Jay Kotak has openly criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin and supported Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, during the war between Russia and Ukraine.

  

• Jay has given criticising statements against the United States of America many times. In 2022, he called the United States a “decaying country” and criticized the nation for its rising gun violence and deteriorating cleanliness.

  

• Jay Kotak’s mother is a professional mountain climber. In 2014, she trekked to the Everest base camp.

• In May 2023, Jay Kotak posted a tweet in which he congratulated Aditi Arya for completing her MBA at Yale University in the US. In the tweet, he also revealed that the duo were engaged to each other. Some sources claimed that the couple had been engaged to each other since 2022.