Board of Directors

Mr. Mustafa Ilyas serves as an adviser to Saudi National Bank (“SNB”),Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 2021, and also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Samba Bank Limited Pakistan since October 27, 2022.

Prior to this he was at PwC for over seventeen years, the majority of which focused exclusively on the banking sector. The early part of his career with PwC focused on providing external audit services to listed companies. Hethen specialized in due diligence assisting corporate and private equity investors on both buy and sell side.

Mr. Mustafa Ilyas is a Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales (UK). He holds a Master of Engineering from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine(London).

Hafiz Mohammad Yousaf is a highly qualified professional having diversified qualifications from the renowned Institutions of Pakistan, USA, and Canada. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan(ICAP), Fellow Member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants(AICPA), Member of Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) and Member of Canadian Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants (CICPA)besides being member of many other renowned international professional institutions.

Mr. Yousaf possesses over three decades of diversified post qualification experience as a Chartered Accountant in various specialized fields, having served on various leadership positions with key governmental, public and corporate entities (including two decades at a Big 4 professional accounting firm as Partner in Pakistan) which covers corporate compliance and regulations, governance and oversight, accounting and auditing standards setting, assurance and audits, corporate finance and restructuring, consulting and financial advisory services, etc.

In recent years, the key areas of his focus are the high-end policies formulation and implementation, strategic directions, oversight of regulations and business operations, governance initiatives and organizational reforms and business decisions making, etc. at some of the most important corporate sector entities of the country. Mr. Yousaf has a unique and versatile exposure of having served Pakistan’s top regulators including State Bank of Pakistan (Central Bank of the country) and Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) as a board member and chairman of audit and oversight committees respectively besides being President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP)

Mr. Yousaf has the honor of serving the council of ICAP for eight years (2009-17) in various leadership positions including being its President for 2015-16term and represented Pakistan on various prestigious international forums including International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), InternationalAccounting Standard Board (IASB), Asian Oceana Standards Setters Group(AOSSG), CA Worldwide (CAW) and South Asian Federation of Accountants for many years on different meetings and conferences.

Currently he is serving as a Board Member of some leading corporate entities of the country including SAMBA Bank Limited, Kot Addu Power Company Limited, Pakistan Security Printing Corporation, Security Papers Limited &SICPA Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited where he is also the Chairman and member of various important committees of the respective boards.

In recognition of his credentials, Yousaf is appointed by the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), as a member of its very prestigious forum namely Public Interest Monitoring Consultative Committee (PIMCC) to represent Pakistan. The seven member PIMCC has an oversight on the functioning of the AAOIFI Accounting Board (AAB) and AAOIFI Governance and Ethics Boards (AGEB) to ensure that public interest is duly served

Mr. Javed Kureishi is a career banker having spent more than 34 years with Citibank N.A. both in Pakistan and abroad (Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia). During his professional career at Citibank, he held a number of senior positions across Corporate Banking, Country Risk, and Regional Management that included Public Sector Group Head, Asia Pacific, Global Subsidiaries Group Head, Asia Pacific (Singapore), Chief Operating Officer, Middle East (ME), Corporate Bank Head, Middle East(ME), Chief Executive Officer, Czech Republic, Institutional Bank Head, Egypt, Head of Risk Management Africa, South Africa, and Corporate Bank Head, Pakistan.

Mr. Javed is on a number of boards across several industries including food, power, cement, real estate, industrial chemicals.

Mr. Javed holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hon), and a degree in Economics from the University of Sussex (United Kingdom).

Zeeba Ansar possesses over 27 years of diverse experience in the Corporate &Banking sectors that includes aggressive business development, client coverage, marketing of corporate products, setting up of early warning systems and strategizing/structuring facilities for Non-Performing Loans and instituting strong and diligent recovery drives.

Ms. Zeeba was with NIB Bank Limited, where she served as Group Head, Corporate & Investment Banking Group for two years and prior to that she worked in United Bank Limited for more than nine years where her last role was as Regional Corporate Head. She was also associated with Faysal Bank Limited for about five years where she progressed to the position of Corporate Head (Southern Region) and before that, she was with Deutsche Bank Limited, where she worked for almost eight years.

She started her career from Shell Pakistan Limited, where she worked for over4 years in their Planning department. She holds an MBA Degree from theInstitute of Business Administration, Karachi.

Currently, Ms. Zeeba is also on the Boards of Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited, Cherat Cement Company Limited and Lucky Investments Limited, holding the position as Independent Director.

Mr. Rashid Jahangir, Acting President & CEO is an accomplished finance professional and a career banker with more than 23 years’ industry experience, and having expertise in the areas of Strategic Planning, Digital Transformation, Financial, Taxation, HR and Business Management. Mr. Jahangir has worked on assignments in Pakistan as well as overseas including Europe, Africa, Central Asian, Middle East and Malaysia.

Mr. Jahangir joined Samba Bank Ltd in January 2016 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and member of the Bank’s Executive Team. In this tenure, he played a key role in supporting the Board of Directors and the Management in setting the Bank’s strategic direction, technological initiatives and business decision model.

In 2021, as a part of growth strategy, Mr. Jahangir was asked to head the Bank’s new Digital Banking initiative, where he successfully led the team that introduced a full scope suite of digitally enabled banking products and services for Samba Bank.

In 2023, in recognition of his business, tech, governance and leadership expertise, Mr. Jahangir was appointed to the role of Samba’s first Deputy Chief Executive Officer. As Deputy Chief Executive Officer Mr. Jahangir also has oversight of Retail & Consumer Banking, Operations & IT, Digital Banking, & Human Resources & Training divisions of the Bank. Recently he has also been entrusted to spearhead bank’s transformation into fully Islamic Bank.

Prior to joining SBL, Mr. Jahangir worked with MCB Bank Limited for more than 10 years, where his last role was Head, Strategic Planning & Investments. Mr. Jahangir started his career as a Chartered Accountant working with reputed Chartered Accountancy Firms KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co. and Huzaima Ikram & Associates.

Mr. Jahangir holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce (B. Com) from the University of Punjab and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan. He has attended several trainings and conferences internationally and in Pakistan including business technical and Leadership.

Mr. Jahangir is also a Certified Director from Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance and has previously served thrice as member of Banking & Finance Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Pakistan (ICAP).

Ms. Kholood K. Al-Khelaiwi is a banking professional with over two decades of experience in the financial sector in Saudi Arabia. Throughout her career, she ha sheld key leadership roles across prominent financial institutions, including the Saudi National Bank (SNB)—formerly known as the National Commercial Bank(NCB)—the Capital Market Authority (CMA), Samba Financial Group, and Mizuho Saudi Arabia.

Currently, Ms. Al-Khelaiwi serves as the Head of Talent Acquisition at SaudiNational Bank (SNB) since 2024, transitioning from her extensive career as a global markets expert. Previously, she held the position of Head of Trading, GlobalMarkets. Before that, she led Structured Solutions, Treasury for nearly eight years, demonstrating her expertise in treasury operations and financial solutions.

Prior to joining SNB, she served at the Capital Market Authority (CMA), Saudi Arabia, as a Senior Authorization & Inspection of Market Institutions officer fortwo years. Before that, she worked at Mizuho Saudi Arabia Company as Advisory Head for nearly two years. Her earlier tenure at Samba Financial Group spanned several years, where she held the role of Manager, Structured Finance Products& Sales, Treasury.

Ms. Al-Khelaiwi is skilled in global treasury operations, investment strategies, regulatory compliance, risk management, and financial reporting. She has also completed multiple certification programs relevant to her field, further enhancing her professional expertise.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (Quantitative Methods) from King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.