Executive Management

In effecting full control over the Group, Al Baraka Banking Group's Executive Management Team has developed a system for filtering down to Group's units the centralised strategic decisions taken at the parent level, thus ensuring the implementation of Groupwide policies and common operational processes and procedures across the Group. As at the end of 2006, the team consisted of the President & Chief Executive, the Deputy Chief Executive and the Heads of Internal Audit, Strategic Planning, Operations and Administration, Financial Control, Credit & Risk Management and Treasury & Investment, Legal Affairs and Research & Development.

Has been a Board Director since inception, and the President and Chief Executive since August 2004. He is the Chairman of Jordan Islamic Bank, Banque Al Baraka D’Algأ©rie, Al Baraka Turk Participation Bank, Al Baraka Bank Ltd., South Africa, Al Baraka Bank Egypt, Al Baraka Bank, Lebanon, Al Baraka Bank Syria and Al Baraka Bank (Pakistan) Ltd. He also holds directorships in Al Baraka Bank Sudan, Al Baraka Islamic Bank, Bahrain and Al Baraka Bank Tunisia. He has more than 34 years’ international banking experience and was twice the recipient of the Islamic Banker of the Year Award at the World Islamic Banking Conference in December 2004 and December 2009. He was appointed Chairman of the Union of Arab Banks in May 2007 and re-elected for another four years term in May 2010.

Has over 30 years of international banking experience mostly in audit and as Head of Operations.
 He began his  creer at Banque Nationale de Paris in  Bahrain in 1981 as Head of Operations,
and moved to Arab Banking Corporation  (B.S.C.)’s Internal Audit Department in  1988 as an audit team leader, where he  carried out audits of the Head Office, its  branches and subsidiaries spread over Europe, Americas, Far East and in the Arab World. He joined ABG in 2000, when it was still under formation to establish  the internal audit department.
 He now  heads the department which reviews the  activities of all the subsidiary banks as  well as Al  Baraka Banking Group’s Head  Office in Bahrain, and also covers the  review of control of IT, and corporate  identity environment, as well as Shari’a aspects. He reports directly to the Audit  and Governance Committee of the Board  of ABG, and acts as Secretary to it.
He also participates in all the meetings of the audit committees of all the subsidiaries of ABG as an observer member.

• Mohammed Al-Alawi
  Vice President - Internal Audit
  
  
• Hassan Y. Al-Banna
  Vice President - Internal Audit
  
  
• Ebrahim A. Aziz Al Zayani
  Vice President - IT Auditor
  
  
• Mohammed Abdul Latif Al-Mahmood
  Vice President - Internal Audit - Shari'a Auditor
  
  
• Fadhel Al-Madhoob
  Assistant Vice President - Internal Audit

Has over 33 years of experience in financial and management reporting, corporate and structured finance, credit, strategic planning, project management, equity research and fund management and administration.
He has worked in the Middle East as well as in North America. After spending several years in the accountancy field in India and Bahrain, he joined Arab Banking Corporation (B.S.C.)’s investment banking subsidiary, where he served for 11 years before moving to the parent bank’s Treasury  Department to manage its mutual fund investment portfolio and the Treasury Mid-Office. After 2 years as a partner in a regional investment bank in the Gulf, and a further period heading the worldwide banking solutions business of a major Canadian IT solutions company in Toronto, in 2004 he took
up his position at ABG initially as Head of Financial Control and in mid-2006 as Senior Vice President - Head of Strategic Planning.

• Ayman A. Mohammed
  Vice President - Strategic Planning
  
  
• Chandresh Mehta
  Vice President - Strategic Planning

Has over 37 years of banking experience gained in senior positions with various international financial institutions, both  Islamic and conventional. He commenced his career with Habib Bank Ltd in 1973, later worked with (then) Chase Manhattan Bank, Bahrain, Bank of America, Bahrain, American Express Bank, Bahrain and Bahrain Middle East Bank, Bahrain.
After a successful career with Shamil Bank of Bahrain (formerly Faysal Islamic Bank of Bahrain), he was appointed as Assistant Chief Executive Officer – Operations at Bahrain Islamic Bank in 2002, and thereafter joined ABG in May 2006. Mr. Shehab is a Board member of Banque Al Baraka D’Algأ©rie .

Operations & Administration

Investors Relations

• Ahmed M. AbdulGhaffar
  Vice President - Investors Relations

Corporate Communications

• Hassan A. Hassani
  Assistant Vice President - Corporate Communication

IT Projects

• Hood Hashem Ahmed
  First Vice President - IT Projects
• Ahmed Al Balooshi
  Vice President - IT Projects

Has over 17 years’ experience in financial control and auditing. Prior to joining ABG in February 2005, he worked at Shamil Bank as Senior Manager, Internal Audit. Prior to this role, he was a member of the Assurance and Business Advisory team at Arthur Andersen. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Accounting and Auditing Standards Board of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). He is also a Board and Audit Committee member of Al Baraka Turk Participation Bank, Jordan Islamic Bank and Banque Al Baraka D’Algأ©rie and member of the Board Risk Committee of Banque Al Baraka D’Algأ©rie.

• Mahmood T. Taheri
  Vice President - Financial Control
• Ali Asgar
  Vice President - Financial Control
• Mohsin Dashti
  Vice President - Financial Control

Has over 35 years of international banking experience involving credit, risk management, commercial banking and trade finance.
He commenced his banking career with Bank of Montreal, Canada in international banking and was  later its Middle East Representative, initially in Beirut, Lebanon and thereafter in London.
He joined Gulf International Bank B.S.C. (GIB) in 1979 as Regional Marketing and Credit Officer for Central Europe based in London.
 He worked in various capacities in GIB within Credit and Business Development. In 2001, he was appointed Chief Credit Officer covering the areas of credit administration, economics, legal and credit review. He was also member of the Group Risk Committee.
 His most recent position with GIB was as Executive Vice-President, Head of International Banking with
the responsibility for commercial banking business outside the GCC and thereafter joined ABG in September 2006.

• Salah Al Busaiteeni
  First Vice President - Credit and Risk Management
  
  
• Dr. Hala Khalid Radwan
  Vice President - Credit and Risk Management
  
  
• Jaffar Mohamed Ahmed
  Vice President - Credit and Risk Management

Has over 27 years of professional experience as a judge, practicing advocate or professional legal consultant serving a wide spectrum of local, regional and international clientele.
After 20 years of practice in the various capacities in Sudan, he moved to Sultanate of Oman in 2001 to work for an Omani Law firm associated with an International Law Firm, and was admitted to practice by Omani Advocates Admission Committee before all Omani courts. In 2004, he moved to the Kingdom of Bahrain to join Al Baraka Islamic Bank (AIB) as Manager, Legal Affairs and then in 2007 was appointed First Vice President - Head of Legal Affairs & Compliance of ABG.
 He also serves as Secretary to the Board of Directors of ABG.

• Dr. Adel Basha
  First Vice President - Legal Affairs & Compliance
  
  
• Dr. Ali Adnan Ibrahim
  Vice President - Legal Affairs & Compliance

is a prominent International Islamic Economics Scholar. Throughout his career he has written widely for publications, in Islamic Banking, and Islamic Economics. He has lectured extensively at regional specialized conferences and overseas and is a regular participant in the Jeddah-based Fiqh Academy.

Dr. Ahmed served in several capacities including the post of Banking Research and Studies Head, and Head of Shari'a research, and Studies, Dallah Al Baraka Group, KSA, Manager of Research and Development, AlBaraka Banking Group, Advisor, Dallah Al Baraka Group President's office. Dr. Ahmed is currently holding the position of the Secretary General for Economic Affairs at the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Pakistan. He is a member of several Shari'a boards and boards of directors including, Shari'a Unified panel, AlBaraka Banking Group, Executive Committee of the Shari'a unified Panel of AlBaraka Banking Group, Saudi Egyptian Shari'a supervisory board, Shari'a Board of RHB, Shari'a Advisor, Al Tawfeeq Company for Leasing Finance, Egypt, Dr. Ahmed is an expert at the Jeddah-based Fiqh Academy.

He has overseen and edited many research activities including the publications of Dallah Al Baraka Group, Al Baraka Annual Islamic Economic symposium, Iqra annual Fiqh & media symposium, the development of the first comprehensive electronic Figh encyclopaedia with Sakhr computers, and Saleh Kamel's program for publishing university theses in Islamic economics.

Dr. Ahmed has written several books on Islamic economics and Islamic banking including such subjects as the activities of Islamic investment companies in the international markets, securities markets and their developmental impact on Islamic economics. 

Has over 25 years of banking experience in Treasury and Operations.
He commenced his banking career at United Gulf Bank as an Operations Clerk in 1983. In 1988, he joined Shamil Bank (formerly Faysal Islamic Bank of Bahrain) as Operations clerk and was promoted to Manager in charge of the Treasury operations of the bank.
He was later Treasury Manager in Eskan Bank from April 2006 to May 2007 where he handled the overall liquidity management of the bank and was involved in several committees. In June 2007 he joined as Vice President and rose to the position of First Vice President - Head of Treasury and Investment in 2008

• Malek Temsah
  Vice President - Treasury & Investments