Siddharth is a senior banker by profession with around 18 years of experience in various roles. After passing out from a special school to regular school he completed his graduation in Commerce and went on to do his masters in Economics from Loyola College Chennai. Professionally, he is a Certified Documentary Credit Specialist (CDCS) from Institute of Financial Services, UK and also holds multiple certifications in the banking domain. He is World’s no 2 and India’s first CDCS with cerebral palsy.
Siddharth is a person with Cerebral Palsy, post a jaundice attack when he was few days old which significantly impacted his body movement and speech clarity. This has consequential impact on his ability to write and general reaction time.
Siddharth is inspirational 4 time Tedx speaker. His talks touch upon topics like motivation, Time/Emotional management and leadership and he has been invited by TOP Organizations/ CorporateS and Management institutes: IIM A; Christ University, Bangalore, IIM- B.
He has spoken in more than 285 forums/events/conferences reaching out to 58,000 people. Siddharth served on the board of Vidya Sagar from 1999 to 2019 and had been on the Board of Trustee of Skill Share International, a UK based NGO for 3 years. He also served as Member of Advisory board of India Inclusion Summit for 4 years and now a member in the board of trustees of India Inclusion Foundation.
Being a National awardee as Best Employee with Cerebral Palsy” given by the then Honorable Vice President of India in 2008, he dreams that he must reach out to more people as he strongly believes his story has the best ingredient to inspire anyone He is also recipient of 101 top global diversity and inclusion awards in 2019 and 2020 from World HRD congress.
He has authored his own memoir – Simply Being Sidds – My fight with Life and God ! which is available at Amazon.
On personal front he lives in Bangalore with his mother, wife and his son.