KUALA LUMPUR: Asian Finance Bank (AFB) has appointed Salah Mohd I Al Jaidah as its new chairman, effective, Sept 15.
AFB
in a statement yesterday said Salah was one of the earliest directors
to be appointed to the AFB board and had been instrumental in steering
the growth and development of the finance house. (source)
“Having served as
a committee member/chairman of several AFB committees, Salah has been
exposed to the Malaysian financial and capital markets as well as
regulatory authorities,” it added.
He graduated from Texas
Christian University with a BBA degree (Finance and Marketing) and the
Oxford Business School in Advanced Management Programme.
Salah currently sits as the vice chairman of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and chief country officer of Deutsche Bank AG.
Previously, he also held the position of Qatar Islamic Bank chief executive officer from 2005 to 2010.
A
full-fledged Islamic bank, AFB was incorporated in 2005 and backed by a
consortium of shareholders from leading Middle Eastern financial
institutions, namely, Qatar Islamic Bank (66.67-per cent), RUSD
Investment Bank Inc (16.67-per cent), Tadhamon International Islamic
Bank (10 per cent) and Financial Assets Bahrain WLL (6.67-per cent). —
Bernama
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