Strides Pharma Science Limited announced that eminent corporate doyen Aditya Puri joins the Strides Group as an Advisor and also will be a Director of its associate Company, Stelis Biopharma ('Stelis'). Recognized as a stalwart of the Indian banking and financial services industry, Mr. Puri was the iconic founder-Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of HDFC Bank from its inception in 1994 until his retirement from the position in October 2020, earning the distinction of having been the longest- serving head of a private bank in India. Under his stewardship, the publicly traded bank scaled great heights to become India's largest private sector lender by assets, India's most valuable bank by market capitalization and India's most valuable brand for the sixth consecutive year in 2019.