K. V. Kamath - Early Life

Early Life

Kamath was born on 2 December 1947 into a Goud Saraswat Brahmin family, in Mangalore city of Karnataka state where he spent most of his early years. After completing Higher Secondary and Pre-University from St. Aloysius School, he joined the Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC, now called National Institute of Technology Karnataka) in Surathkal for a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduating from KREC in 1969, he joined the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) for a Masters Degree in Business Administration.

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