Ali is an experienced banking professional who has worked at senior executive levels since 1998. He is Head of Human Resources for ADCB. Before joining ADCB, he was a key contributor in organisations such as Tamweel, Dubai Islamic Bank and ABN AMRO. Under Ali’s leadership, his DIB subsidiary was voted the best organisation by the Board of Islamic Financial Services. He was also a prime contributor to winning the Best Bank Customer Service/Contact Centre award at the 2006 Banker Middle East Industry Awards.

Simon has been General Counsel and Board Secretary at ADCB since 2008. After graduating from Durham University in the UK, he practised corporate law in the City of London for eight years. He joined Abu Dhabi Investment Authority in 2006, acting as lawyer to the Emerging Markets Department and Strategic Investment and Infrastructure teams. He has more than 14 years’ experience in banking, finance, and corporate law. Since 2010, he has been a non-executive director of Damas International Ltd.

Simon has been highly instrumental in the Bank’s recent recognition as a regional leader in corporate governance.

Abdulla joined ADCB as Executive Vice-President and Head of Government Relations in 2010, after being the Vice-President of Dubai Islamic Bank’s Wealth Management Division. He is currently appointed as Managing Director of ADCB’s subsidiaries: Abu Dhabi Commercial Properties LLC and Abu Dhabi Commercial Engineering Services LLC. Abdulla is responsible for retaining the ISO certification by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance for both companies. He is a member of ADCB’s MEC, Vice-Chairman of ADCP & ADCE Board and a Chairman of ADCIF.

Abdulla has 11 years’
experience in banking and business management and holds Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Science in Management from Colorado Technical University, USA, with double majors in Business Management and System Management.

Colin completed his Master of Arts in Financial Economics at the University of Dundee, receiving the Bowie Memorial Prize for top economics graduate. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Colin joined Barclays Bank in 1992 and undertook various roles as an international banker. In 2007 he was appointed Barclays’ Corporate Banking Director,
GCC, joining ADCB a year later
as Executive Vice- President and Head of Wholesale
Banking Group.

Deepak was appointed Group Chief Financial Officer in 2008 and is responsible for group finance, investor relations, and strategic sourcing. He previously spent 15 years with Standard Chartered Bank, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Standard Chartered First Bank in Korea. Before joining Standard Chartered he worked for 12 years with Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse & Co (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in the Middle East and India. He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and an Associate Member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers (UK).

Kishore joined ADCB as Chief Risk Officer in 2009, having started his banking career with State Bank of India where he spent 12 years in diverse roles. He also spent 13 years at ABN AMRO, handling various assignments across Asia, Europe, and North America, and was Chief Credit & Risk Officer at Arab Banking Corporation for five years, responsible for enterprise-wide risk management implementation. Kishore is a member of ADCB’s MEC, MRCC, MRC and ALCO. As the Bank’s first CRO, Kishore is charged with setting up, embedding, and expanding the risk framework. He is a qualified cost accountant and corporate secretary and holds a degree in physics.

Arup joined ADCB in 2005 and is Executive Vice President and Head of the Consumer Banking business. He had previously spent seven years with Citibank, latterly as Head of Wealth Management products and Marketing Director for its UAE consumer business. Before that he worked with Unilever in India in several sales and marketing roles. Arup is a Mechanical Engineering graduate and holds an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Jerry was appointed Group Chief Operating Officer following the acquisition of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s retail banking business in the UAE in 2010. He was previously Chief Operating Officer for Royal Bank of Scotland’s Middle East and Africa franchise, a position he held from 2008. He also served as an Executive Director for ABN AMRO’s Group Services Division, and before that fulfilled various directorships within ABN’s Wholesale Division. Jerry holds a BA from the University of California, an MBA and Master’s, in Business Informatics from Erasmus University – Rotterdam School of Management, and was a distinguished Fulbright fellow at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.

Kevin joined ADCB in 2009 as the Head of Treasury and Investments. He has held significant Treasury and Risk positions in global organisations such as ALICO, Citigroup, Westpac Bank, and Merrill Lynch. At ADCB, he is responsible for a front office staff of 40, including FX trading and sales, derivative trading and sales, and fixed income and investments personnel, along with money market and balance sheet analytics teams. Kevin holds an MBA degree from Macquarie University in Australia.

Abdirizak has been the Group Chief Internal Auditor at ADCB since 2006, having previously worked at the NASDAQ stock market, NASD (FINRA), and OFHEO (FHFA). He has more than 18 years of financial industry experience that spans capital markets management, accounting policy/applications, examinations and auditing, risk management, regulatory oversight, and corporate governance. Currently he serves as an Audit Committee Member of various Abu Dhabi-based companies. Abdirizak is a Certified Public Accountant, and holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington in Seattle and a Master’s from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.