Profile: Board of Supervisors

Mr Stride spent most of his career with Booz Allen & 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. He was formerly president of the American Association of Singapore, a position he held for five years. Mr Stride received his BA from Providence College in the USA.

Mr Mohib has been a member of the Board since 2005. 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 King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario.

Mr Minderhoud joined the Board in December 2017. He is based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he is senior advisor to Ipak Yuli Bank Uzbekistan. He has worked in various capacities in Central Asia and the former Soviet Union since 1994, at first with ABN AMRO Bank, Netherlands, and since 2006 as independent financial advisor and board member of various banks and companies in the region.

He holds a law degree from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Mr Tirmzi is a qualified Chartered Accountant (1981, Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales), and has 34 years of international banking experience in the Middle East and Asia Pacific with Citibank and HSBC. Key roles as chief financial officer included in Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Singapore – as well as three regional CFO roles in Asia Pacific. He was also director of audit and risk review with Citibank Asia Pacific. He is currently a financial consultant based in Singapore, focused on assignments in the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Mr Sidiqi joined the Board in 2017. He is currently the CEO of Abu Dhabi-listed RAK Properties, a leading UAE developer. Previously he was CEO of Kuwait-listed NREC, and prior to that worked with Agility Logistics in Europe, America, Asia, and the Middle East. He began his career at Bain & Company advising Fortune 500 clients on strategy. Mr Sidiqi has an MBA from the Wharton School and an MA from the Lauder Institute, both of the University of Pennsylvania. He has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Political Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mr Srivastava has been a Board member since August 2012. He is chief commercial officer of Wasl Asset Management Group, a Government of Dubai-owned corporation with interests in property, hospitality and leisure. Before joining Wasl in 2008, 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 degree in economics from the Delhi School of Economics and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

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, of which Star Textile Mills Ltd is the principal member; president of Rahmat Fruit Processing Corporation; and a partner in the sole agents for Samsung Electronics and Appliances in Afghanistan. He graduated with a BCom from Bombay University.