Ronald Stride
Independent DirectorChairman of the Board of Supervisors
Chairman of the Compensation Committee
Risk Committee Member
Mr Stride spent most of his career with Booz Allen and Hamilton, the management consulting firm, where he was a senior vicepresident and managing partner for Asia. He has been a member of AIB’s Board since November, 2009. Mr Stride is a member of several business boards as well as chairing a large Singapore-based charity – Food from the Heart. Until recently, he was president of the American Association of Singapore, a position he held for five years. He received his BA degree from Providence College in the USA.
Hamidullah A. Mohib
Shareholder-appointed Member of the Board of SupervisorsCompensation Committee Member
Risk Committee Member
Mr Mohib has been a member of the Board since 2005 and sits on the Compensation Committee and the Risk Committee. He is presently an executive director at the family office of Ibrahim Mohib, responsible for strategic planning and treasury operations. Mr Mohib was educated at Kings University College at the University of Western Ontario.
Lutfullah Rahmat
Shareholder-appointed Member of the Board of SupervisorsMr Rahmat is past-chairman of AIB and has been a member of the Board since the Bank’s inception in 2004. He is managing director of the Karachi-based Rahmat Group that has Star Textile Mills Ltd as its principal company. He is also president of Rahmat Fruit Processing Corporation and Rahmat Corrugation Corporation in Afghanistan, and a partner in the sole agents for Samsung Electronics and Appliances in Afghanistan. He graduated with a BCom degree from Bombay University.
Veronica John
Independent DirectorMember of the Compensation Committee
Ms John has been a member of the AIB Board since 2004, bringing more than 20 years’ experience in international finance, especially in emerging markets in Asia and the CIS including private equity funds, diversified fund of funds, management, and investment banking. She is a senior advisor to Mekong Capital, a Vietnam-focused private equity fund. She was also chief executive of IDFC Capital, an emerging markets private equity fund of funds business, and was a member of the Asian Development Bank team that founded AIB. Ms John holds a BA degree from Elmira College and an MBA from George Washington University.
Hasib Ahmed
Shareholder-appointed Member of the Board of SupervisorsChairman of the Risk Committee
Mr Ahmed has been a Board member since November, 2005 and chairs the Risk Committee. He is currently principal investment officer at the Asian Development Bank based in Manila, having previously had 26 years’experience with Citibank in a wide variety of positions in institutional and corporate banking, principally in New York and the Middle East. Mr Ahmed holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Punjab University, Pakistan.
Gokhan Erkal
Shareholder-appointed Member of the Board of SupervisorsMr Erkal was a member of the team that founded AIB and has been a Board member since 2004 except for 2008-2009. He is a partner in an Istanbul-based private equity fund focusing on clean energy investments and has extensive experience in business development, project finance, and investment, in Turkey and emerging markets. He also has previous banking experience, with Ottoman Bank in London and as vice-president, project finance, at Garanti Bank. Mr Erkal holds a master’s degree as well a bachelor’s in civil engineering.