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 integrated systems of ABN AMRO and RBS, and later with ADCB. Hafesjee was also previously connected with HDFC Bank in India. He is credited with running zero-loss operations at UNB successively for the past five years. Armed with a track record of over 25 years in organisation strategy and change management spent in leadership roles, he has successfully implemented several critical systems for core banking and treasury management, including those that are customer-facing. He has initiated new ideas for improving controls, having set up internal control functions and formulated strategies to create synergies, thereby eliminating inefficiencies and bottlenecks in UNB.