Ronald Stride
Independent DirectorChairman of the Board of Supervisors
Member of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Risk Committee
Member of the Strategy and Planning Committee
Mr Stride spent most of his career with Booz Allen and Hamilton, the management consulting firm, where he was a senior vice-president and managing partner for Asia. He also served on the firm’s Board of Directors in the US. Mr Stride has been a member of AIB’s Board since November, 2009. He is currently 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 and risk committees. He is an executive director at Mohib Holdings, responsible for strategic planning and treasury operations for the group’s various activities in Central Asia and the Middle East. Mr Mohib was educated at Kings University College at the University of Western Ontario.
Lutfullah Rahmat
Shareholder-appointed Member of the Board of SupervisorsMember of the Strategy and Planning Committee
Mr Rahmat is past-chairman of AIB and has been a member of the Board since the Bank’s inception in 2004. He is also managing director of the Rahmat Group, the Karachi-based company that has Star Textile Mills Ltd as its principal member; 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 DirectorChairperson 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 fund 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
Member of the Strategy and Planning Committee
Member of the Investment Committee
Mr Ahmed has been a Board member since November, 2005 and chairs the Risk Committee. He is currently Principal Investment Specialist 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.
Brian Dickie
Independent DirectorChairman of the Strategy and Planning Committee
Mr Dickie joined AIB’s Board in 2012. He has served as chairman or non-executive director of numerous companies in Europe, North America, and the Middle East, and is currently a senior advisor to Investcorp, the Bahrain-based investment company. He was previously a managing director in Investcorp’s London office and president of TXU Energy in Dallas, Texas. For much of his career Mr Dickie was a management consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he also served as president and chief operating officer from 1993 to 1998. A native of Northern Ireland, he is a graduate of Oxford University and Harvard Business School.
Salman Shoaib
Independent DirectorChairman of the Investment Committee
Mr Shoaib joined the AIB Board in 2012. He is based in Singapore and has business interests in retail and trading, having spent 16 years with Crédit Suisse in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Singapore, holding positions that included head of asset management for Asia Pacific. He has a BA degree in Economics from Brown University and an MPhil degree in Finance from Cambridge University.
Aditya Srivastava
Independent DirectorMember of the Risk Committee
Mr Srivastava has been a Board member since August 2012. He joined Wasl Asset Management in 2008 as general manager of business development, currently responsible for the strategy and business development activities of this Government of Dubai-owned corporation with interests in property, hospitality, and leisure. Before joining Wasl, he had a 20-year career in banking, the last 10 years with Société Générale where he was GCC head of project finance and corporate relationships. Mr Srivastava holds a Master’s in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Gokhan Erkal
Shareholder-appointed Member of the Board of SupervisorsMember of the Investment Committee
Mr 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.