Anand M Sharma
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.
Farooque Tungekar
Farooque has over four decades of experience with HSBC in the Middle East. As Head of Credit International he led corporate credit and risk management, with strong oversight over the Bank’s substantial corporate credit portfolio for the Middle East.
An integral member of the top leadership team at HSBC, and well regarded for his repertoire of historic market knowledge, Farooque has been a leading authority on matters of wholesale credit and risk management coupled with his sound knowledge of the local and regional credit culture.
Smita Tamhane
Smita has 36 years of extensive experience across the spectrum of global financial services, having held senior executive positions in HSBC and Lloyds Bank covering the GCC region out of UAE
Her diverse expertise covers corporate banking finance, credit risk management, loan syndications and special asset management with debt restructuring and remediation. She has also led strategic initiatives to set up and run country business units for SME and Retail banking, driving the conception and execution of strategy, policy setting and business development to net revenue generation and cost optimisation.
Tawfeeq Nabijee
Tawfeeq is a dynamic, versatile and seasoned financial services professional with an illustrious career of over 35 years with Standard Chartered Bank in the Middle East, based out of UAE.
As Executive Director for Standard Chartered, he was entrusted with a distinguished portfolio of selective large and diversified corporate clients and family groups in UAE, with significant asset and revenue responsibility.As a testament of his capability, he additionally managed the function for rehabilitation of special assets portfolio with turnaround solutions.
Jasbir Bindra
Jasbir has held senior regional executive leadership roles at HSBC MENA – most recently as Country Head of Financial Crime Compliance since 2017, following a well accomplished stint as CFO for Global Banking and Markets since 2009.
He was a member of the Global Finance leadership team for HSBC’s Global Banking and Markets business and a board member of the subsidiary companies. Prior to that he was the Regional Treasury Controller for MENA responsible for oversight of HSBC’s 11 dealing rooms in the region.
Nikos Xanthopoulos
Nikos is a senior advisor with proficiency in risk management and deep analytics based in Athens, Greece. His global experience of 18 years in Financial Services Advisory, has extended across over 25 countries in Europe, MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, South and South-East Asia.
Since 2011, Nikos has been working for the IFC and World Bank Group, appointed to major transformation projects with banks, NBFIs and FMCGs, delivering innovative solutions around credit cycle operations and credit scoring.
Rajkumar Bhatia
Raj has prominent expertise in Operational Risk and Compliance domain, meticulously acquired over his distinguished 4 decade career with HSBC Commercial Banking in the Middle East, based out of UAE.
His last 5 year stint as Senior Manager Operational Risk, involved rigorous country oversight for the bank’s prominent wholesale banking relevant business risk and control management for UAE.
Laila Abdulla
Laila brings 18 years of expertise in diverse Risk Management roles with a strong track record of delivering exceptional results in achieving operational efficiency and adherence with credit/market risk, control frameworks, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
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