Keki Mistry, another Board member of HDFC Bank and vice chairman and chief executive officer, HDFC Ltd, said, "We still have not started looking out for Puri's successor. We will start when it is one year to go. Puri is retiring in 2020." Mistry also said that Sukthankar said he is not leaving to join the competition. "He had a good chance of being the managing director and chief executive officer, but the bank was planning to look for candidates for the top post, both externally and also internally."