Senior Vice President and Head of Strategic Planning, Investments and Investor Relations at Al Baraka Group , Kingdom of Bahrain.

He is the representative of Al Baraka Group on the Board of Directors of Al Baraka Bank Algeria and Al Baraka Bank South Africa.

He has over 27 years of experience in Islamic finance, banking, management consulting and education. He joined the Strategic Planning Department of Al Baraka Group in 2017 and was appointed Head of Strategic Planning in November 2019.

Prior to that, he held several administrative positions in Gulf and international institutions, where he worked as Head of Sharia Structuring and Coordination and Head of Sharia Department at Emirates Islamic Bank in Dubai for more than 8 years. He was also a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Taaleem Company and Beacon Education Company in Dubai.

He also worked in the regional office of McKinsey & Company in Dubai for 3 years. He started his career in Islamic banking with Faisal Islamic Bank in Bahrain in the mid-nineties of the last century, where he held several positions, the last of which was Vice President of Corporate and Investment Banking.

He started his career in 1996 as a financial software developer in the United States.

He holds a PhD and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States of America, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1986 from the University of Minnesota in the United States. He also completed the Digital Transformation Program from Artificial Intelligence and the Internet to Cloud and Blockchain in 2019 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.