DEPUTY CEO, COO & EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP PROFILE (24+ Years’ Experience)

• Global Microfinance Leader (Strategy, Roadmap & Vision)

• Board of Directors & Executive Committees

• Multi-Stakeholder Management
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ExecutiveLeadership (Deputy CEO & COO Roles)

• Bank & Regulatory Compliance

• HQ & Cross-Functional Leadership

A results-focused Global Microfinance Leader. Proven Deputy CEO & COO experience for rapidly growing banking, financial services and microfinance organizations - ASA-PAKISTAN LTD (Microfinance Institution), the BHAKTAR BANK OF AFGHANISTAN and MASHREQBANK (Dubai). Providing strategic direction, executive leadership, corporate governance, and bank / regulatory compliance to deliver sustained profitable growth, resilient banking operations and cross-functional capability.

Presence on the Board of Directors and senior-level committees. Leadership responsibility for day-to-day business operations, HQ / functional areas and key initiatives, including strategic plans, transformation programs and accelerated growth. Taking organizations to the next level by leading strategy roadmap for bank-wide transformation, change programs and restructuring to help build a stable platform for future growth, expand / modernize retail branch networks and improve service (operational) delivery / customer focus.

Leading organizations in complex international banking and microfinance environments through direction, structure and discipline in a changing regulatory landscape to maintain financial / commercial viability for scalable multi-channel growth (Retail, Corporate, Online & Walk-In). Developing high-performance teams (people and talent acquisition strategies), transformed technology (real-time systems, processes and automation), launched new innovative Islamic banking products and optimised cost base (internal controls).