Anand M Sharma
Managing Director
Anand leads the PraeEminere practice based out of UAE and advises on matters of strategy including governance, risk, finance and operations. Initiating his career with business advisory, tax and audit in 1982, he had his last advisory stint at Arthur Andersen in India, prior to joining Bank of America in 1990.
With over two decades in top executive leadership, including with HSBC and Standard Chartered and five years as Chief Risk Officer with regional banks in the GCC, Anand is proficient in negotiating complexities for driving change amidst challenging situations.
Anand has dealt at the “top table” with advising Boards and CEOs on strategic matters, collaborating with and influencing executive leadership teams to achieve optimal bottom-line impact, through articulation and execution of risk-informed business strategy.His strategic contribution across the enterprise spectrum emphasises taking the balanced risk route for conception and execution of strategy with credible risk appetite, sustaining business growth through diversification, transformation and asset rehabilitation and driving portfolio optimisation by leveraging capital planning with economic profit assessment, well reinforced with an impeccable risk and compliance culture.
An intrepid leader with tenacity and drive, he has led and developed teams to deliver on strategic initiatives involving business strategy, corporate governance and reputational risk, business revival and impaired portfolio rehabilitation, risk and digital transformations, service and operational excellence, regulatory compliance and fraud investigations, etc.
Anand is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours in Accounting.
