Listed below is a full listing of all the professionals we believe are making a difference in the country today. This list is in alphabetical order of their first name.
Jibu joins Bank of Singapore from LGT Private Bank, where he was the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for the Middle East business since 2017. He is a senior compliance and AML pr...
Ludovic Nobili, an investment banking executive, possesses extensive expertise in securitisation, transitional debt finance, acquisition finance of asset-intensive businesses, stru...
Mr. Sahu works towards offering Cash Management, Factoring and Trade and has been instrumental in introducing electronic channels for banking transactions and promoting web base...
Nilesh comes with over 25 years of experience in both Conventional and Islamic banking, across various financial institutions in India and the Gulf. He has been involved in form...
Anand Murti Sharma is the Chief Risk Officer at Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD). Prior to joining CBD in September 2015, he served as Group CRO for Al Rajhi Bank in Saudi Arabia. He...
Anil Kumar Parimoo is the “Chief Risk Officer” and “Member of Executive Management” at Dubai Islamic Bank, UAE (DIB). He is responsible for managing Enterprise Wide Risk ...
Vineet Varma is the Head of Global Transaction Banking (GTB) at National Bank of Abu Dhabi. He heads the Trade Sales & Advisory, Cash Management and Custody Sales for Wholesale...
Prasant is the Chief Risk Officer at National Bank of Fujairah. Prior to this role, he served as the Chief Risk Officer at Dubai Bank, before which he was the General Manager-Credi...
Manoj Chawla is a senior banker with over 25 years’ worth of experience in risk management across a broad spectrum including wholesale bank, global markets, retail banking and op...
Isaac Thomas is the Head of Transaction Banking Group at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. He has over 26 years’ worth of banking experience through banking technology and cash manageme...
Rohit Kumar is MD & Head – Group Integrated Risk Management at National Bank of Abu Dhabi. He is responsible for Integrated Risk Management which includes Risk Appetite, Poli...
Manoj Menonis the Global Head of Transaction Banking at FGB. His responsibilities include building a high performance transaction banking sales, product and client access team. Man...
Mr. Kishore Rao Naimpally joined Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank as Chief Risk Officer in July of 2009. He oversees all segments of the Bank’s business as a member of the Management Ri...
Farhan Hafesjee joined Union National Bank in 2010 from ABN AMRO N.V (later RBS plc) in the Middle East. He started his career with ABN AMRO Bank in India, where he successfully ...
Mudit Saxena has worked in retail banking over the last 25 years in five countries in the Middle East and Asia, with immersion in both conventional and Islamic banking. In his pr...
Kumar has over 25 years of banking experience in multiple markets and geographies. Before joining CBI in 2015, Anil was with ADIB, heading retail banking for ADIB Egypt; managing...
Sanjay Malhotra is the chief of consumer banking at Dubai Islamic Bank, the first Islamic bank in the world. With over 23 years of multifunctional experience in leading banks of ...
Ashraf Bibars is the group head of retail banking and SME business at Union National Bank, the only bank that is jointly owned by the governments of Abu Dhabi and Dubai. UNB has op...
Bassel Rahmy is the chief of retail and SMEs and executive board member at ALEXBANK, overseeing the functions of SMEs, branch network management, branch business development, pro...
Suvrat Sagigal is the managing director and head of global retail in NBAD. He joined in 2014 with 24 years of international banking experience from Citibank and Barclays. At Barc...
Sanjya Khanna is the chief information officerof RAK Bank, which he joined in 2011. As CIO, Khanna is responsible for developing a vision for the information technology departmen...
Ian Hodgesis themanaging director and head of retail banking of RAK Bank. He joined the bank in 2007 and has been heading the bank’s retail banking segment since. He is res...
Arup Mukhopadhyayis the group head of consumer banking in ADCB, and is a member of the management executive committee and the management risk and credit committee of the bank. He...
Ali Sajwani is the group CIO of Emirates NBD, joined the bank in 2004 and leads a team of more than 350 professionals. His career spans over 15 years in the oil and gas industry...
Gaurang Desai currently serves as the interim CEO of Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) since December 2014 and is supported by the wider DGCX management team. Desai has se...
Ahmed Bin Sulayem is the chairman of the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), a DMCC joint venture initiative to set up the first derivatives and commodities exchange in the...
Haytham is the Global Head of Transaction Banking in ADIB leading a multi-country team across sales, product development and service. Before joining ADIB, Haytham’s prior assignm...
Leenen oversees the GTB business activities in the wider region of the Middle East and the whole of Africa. He is tasked with building on GTB’s existing success and activel...
Asif Raza has been managing director, head of treasuries & securities services-MENA since August 2008. Prior to this Riza was based in Singapore as head of trade & logistic...
Ala’a Eraiqat currently holds the position of CEO of Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, a role he was appointed to in February 2009. Prior to this, he was deputy chief executive o...