Kuwait

Fawzy Al-Thunayan: Biography
Fawzy Al-Thunayan is General Manager for Board Affairs at Gulf Bank.
Prior to joining Gulf Bank as General Manager for Board Affairs in 2006, Fawzy spent 16 years with the Central Bank of Kuwait as Manager of the Foreign Operations Department, where he was responsible for the management of the Central Bank foreign currency reserves, treasury operations, the execution of monetary policy and fixing the Kuwaiti Dinar exchange rate, among other activities.

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Before joining the Central Bank, he was the Deputy General Manager at the Arab Company for Trading Securities (ACTS) for 5 years, and spent a further 3 years at International Financial Advisors (IFA), a Kuwaiti investment company.
Fawzy has a BA in Business Management from the Catholic University of America.

Carlos Ribeiro: Biography
Carlos Ribeiro is Chief Financial Officer and General Manager, Finance & Support at Gulf Bank. Prior to joining Gulf Bank in October 2009, Carlos served as CEO and Regional Vice President of Europe for GMAC Financial Services from 2005 to 2009 and was accountable for business with assets totaling USD22 billion and headed a team spread across 18 European countries.
He brings with him more than 25 years business and financial experience, having spent a major part of his career at GMAC and General Motors and prior to that, at Philip Morris, where he led the treasury and tax teams in Brazil in his last position with the company.

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Carlos is a CPA and Accounting graduate from the University of Ipiranga in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has also completed an Advanced Management Program in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an Advanced Management Program in Business from The Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Abdullatif Al Hamad: Biography
Abdullatif Al Hamad is General Manager – Corporate Banking at Gulf Bank. Abdullatif joined Gulf Bank in February 2001 and has more than 20 years banking experience.
Under his leadership, Corporate Banking services are delivered in accordance with the highest professional standards.

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He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in International Business from San Diego University, California. He has also completed a Management Training Program at Chemical Bank in New York and has undertaken numerous credit and advanced credit courses.

Surour Al-Samerai: Biography
Surour Al-Samerai is General Manager – Human Resources at Gulf Bank. Surour has been with the Bank for over 10 years, and prior to joining Gulf Bank, he was head of the HR functions at M.H. Alshaya and Alghanim Industries.
He has many years of diversified HR experience and has been responsible for numerous developments within Human Resources at Gulf Bank.

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A number of HR awards have been won by him and Gulf Bank including, an International Stevie Award for Best HR team in 2006, the Middle East Outstanding Contribution to HR award in 2007, the GCC Localization Award, which the Bank has claimed for 6 consecutive years from 2005 to 2010 and the prestigious GCC Employer of the Year in 2010 at the 2nd GCC HR Excellence Awards.
Surour studied at the University of Houston and later obtained his HR professional qualification at Thames Valley University in the UK.

Khaled Al-Mutawa: Biography
Khaled Al-Mutawa is General Manager – International Banking and Investments at Gulf Bank. Khaled joined Gulf Bank in 1989 as a management trainee and moved on to become the General Manager – International Banking in 2001. In 2006, he assumed responsibility for the Investments Division. Khaled is also the Chairman of the Bank’s Management Credit Committee.
He served on the Board of Directors of CINET (Credit Information Network) from 2001- 2008.

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Khaled holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1988) and General Certificate of Education “GCE O Levels” from the University of London (1983).