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| Murali Subramanian - Chief Executive Officer |
Murali Subramanian is a results-oriented senior banker with a proven track record in developing and executing growth strategies on a global basis. Prior to joining FIMBank, Mr Subramanian was Executive Vice President at Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank for 6 years, where he held the position of Head of Transaction Banking of the Group. His key responsibilities at this financial institution included the management of trade and supply chain growth business where he oversaw the growth and return to profitability of this USD 250 million revenue business. This followed a 21-year career at Citibank and earlier ABN Amro, where he occupied various posts in several geographies, ending his career at Citi as Managing Director, Global Head of Domestic Payables. At Citibank Murali built the Trade, Supply Chain and Cash Management businesses in MENA, West Africa, Russia and the CIS, extended the company’s domestic payables capabilities in over 100 countries.
Murali holds a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, as well as a Masters in Business Administration, Finance and International Business from the Indian Institute of Management. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the FIMBank Group on the 6th August 2015.
| Howard Gaunt - Group Chief Operating Officer |
Howard Gaunt is an American from New York and joined the FIMBank group in November 2015 as the Group Chief Operating Officer. He is responsible for the overall operations related functions across the group and sits on several committees including: the Executive Committee, Credit Committee, Asset-Liability Committee and the IT Steering Committee. Howard is also a director of FIM Property Investment Ltd and FIM Business Solutions.
Before joining the FIMBank group, Howard was the General Manager for the Wholesale Banking Group activities in the Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and GCC regions at ADCB between 2007 and 2015. He was responsible for the strategic development and end-to-end management of the Commercial (SME), Corporate (TTLC) and Government (GRE) businesses across the local, GCC and Indo-Arab trade corridor. Howard successfully integrated the customer coverage and analytics units allowing for the industry and customer segmentation, single banker customer coverage and the creation of the Client Service Team.
Howard’s banking career spans over 31 years in senior national and international assignments with Wells Fargo and Company, Citibank, Citicorp, Citigroup and Samba Financial Group. He has a Bachelors degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Southern California (USC) and is a Certified Investment Manager, CIMC, with the Investment Management Consultants Association, IMCA.
Simon Lay started his career with the Midland Bank/HSBC Banking Group, where he worked in a number of areas, including those of International Banking, Corporate Finance, Controller of Lending, Trade Finance and Forfaiting. Subsequently, he was given responsibility for leading Midland’s forfaiting subsidiary, Mid Aval. Simon joined London Forfaiting Company Ltd (LFC) in 1991. In the various senior positions he occupied at LFC, he was entrusted with the expansion of the company’s operations, including in the Americas, the Middle East and Turkey. He was appointed to the company’s Board of Directors in 1997. Following LFC’s acquisition by FIMBank plc in 2003, Simon was appointed as its Managing Director, with global responsibility for the company’s business, including its overseas branches and subsidiaries. During this period, he managed to transform the company from making losses to one which has consistently contributed to the profitability of the FIMBank Group. Today, LFC has established a proven reputation for providing fast, efficient, tailor made non-recourse finance solutions to importers and exporters worldwide. Simon enjoys a reputation as an authority on forfaiting and trade finance, having written numerous articles and been a regular speaker on the subject.
On the 1st January 2015, in the face of unprecedented challenges for the FIMBank Group, he was appointed Acting CEO and tasked with leading the Group on a course which would enable it to meet the performance expectations of its shareholders. In the space of seven months, Simon managed to implement an effective turnaround strategy, fine-tuning FIMBank's strategic focus, overseeing the transition towards a more efficient deployment of resources, and consolidating the Group's global operations. On the 6th August 2015, he was appointed the Group's Deputy CEO, while retaining his position as Managing Director of LFC. Simon, who is a member of FIMBank’s Executive Committee, is also the Bank’s Representative Officer in the United Kingdom. Simon is now currently the CEO of LFC.
| EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS |
| Michael Davis - Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer & MLRO |
Michael Davis began his banking career in the UK in 1986 after a 6 year period as a secondary school teacher in Gibraltar where he was born. He has over 23 years regulatory and compliance experience and joined FIMBank in July 2011 as Head of Compliance and MLRO. Prior to that he was EMEA Head of Compliance for the Macquarie Group based in London. During his 11 years at Macquarie he was responsible for setting up Macquarie’s compliance infrastructure throughout the region during a period of extraordinary growth from 45 members of staff in 2000 to over 1500 in 2011. He was also responsible for managing relationships with key regulators throughout the UK, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East and was responsible for the licensing of several Macquarie branches and subsidiaries.
He has also played active roles on various industry association committees in the UK specializing in compliance and regulatory issues. Prior to specialising in compliance his early banking experience was spent trading foreign exchange, money market instruments and commodity derivatives. He joined LME Ring Dealing and founder member, Rudolf Wolff & Co Ltd in 1990 as a Treasury Trader and in 1992 became their Compliance Officer and MLRO. Michael is a skilled trainer in compliance and anti-money laundering matters and has been an examiner for the Futures and Options Association Diploma in Compliance in the UK.
| Ronald Haverkorn - Executive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer |
Ronald Haverkorn joined FIMBank in May of 2015 as the Chief Risk Officer and Executive Vice President. He is responsible for the risk related functions in the group. He sits on several board and committees including; Board Risk Committee, ALCO, Group Executive Committee and Credit Risk Committee. Before joining FIMBank Ronald had a 22 year career in the International Division of Wells Fargo Bank where he worked in the United States as well as in the United Kingdom and Germany while managing global teams.
During his career he has held various global positions in financial institutions and corporate banking with a focus on the Emerging Markets. Responsibilities included; trade finance, structured finance, syndications, risk mitigation, asset trading, portfolio management, risk reporting and relationship management. He was a member of several divisional committees, risk committees and ALCO.
Ronald was born in the Netherlands and moved to the USA to go to pilot school and attend university. He graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. degree in business administration.
| Aly Siby - Executive Vice President, Chief Banking Officer |
Aly Siby, Executive Vice President and Chief Banking Officer, is responsible for the development of strong relationships and streamlined commercial strategies that deliver trade finance capabilities and profitable growth for the Institution.
Aly started his banking career as financial analyst specialising in the oil industry at Banque Trad Credit Lyonnais, in France, subsequently moving on to a managerial position in the soft commodities department of Credit Lyonnais. He then took up a senior position within the corporate and correspondent banking department at Banque Belgolaise during which he was in charge of the Sub-Saharan African Region.
Aly joined FIMBank in 2006 with a mandate to develop the Bank’s activities with all correspondents and predominantly those located in the African continent. In 2011 he was promoted to Head of Corporate and Institutional Banking and a year later assumed responsibility of the Financial Institutions & Deposits department. In September 2013, he was promoted to Executive Vice President and currently heads the FI & Corporate departments.
Aly has a Master's Degree in Economics and a ‘Diplôme D’Etudes Approfondies’ from the University of Rennes I, France. He also has a Master's of Business Administration Degree from the University of Rochester, New York, USA.
