{"id":102712,"date":"2025-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/efoa-taps-new-chair-govdigital-and-sanadak-get-new-heads\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"efoa-taps-new-chair-govdigital-and-sanadak-get-new-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2025\/04\/17\/efoa-taps-new-chair-govdigital-and-sanadak-get-new-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"EFOA taps new chair + GovDigital and Sanadak get new heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The <\/strong><strong>Emirates Family Office Association has<\/strong> <strong>named Ahmed Al Banna&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>as <\/strong><strong>chairman of the board<\/strong>, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/4\/1000.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">press release (pdf)<\/a>. Al Banna is currently the CEO of&nbsp;<span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Dubarch Architectural Engineering Interior Design Consultancy, and previously held senior roles at the Dubai Chamber of Commerce, including as deputy director general and director of research and studies.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The <\/span><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Abu Dhabi Executive Council<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> has issued a resolution appointing <\/span><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Wesam Lootah <\/strong><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wesamlootah\/\" rel=\"noopener\">(Linkedin)<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">as<\/span><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> director general of <\/strong><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dge.gov.ae\/en\/what-we-do\/digital\" rel=\"noopener\">GovDigital<\/a><\/strong><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> at the Department of Government Enablement<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, according to the <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaoffice.abudhabi\/en\/government-affairs\/executive-council-issues-resolution-appointing-wesam-lootah-as-director-general-of-govdigital-at-department-of-government-enablement\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Abu Dhabi Media Office<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">. Currently serving as CEO of Corporate Support Services at Dubai Municipality, Lootah comes with around two decades of experience. He was also CEO of Smart Dubai following a tenure as Assistant Director General.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The <\/strong><strong>Central Bank of the UAE<\/strong> (CBUAE) has named<strong> Faiza Al Awadhi (<\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/faiza-alawadhi-57a12541\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Linkedin<\/a><\/strong><strong>) as the CEO<\/strong><strong> and managing director of Sanadak<\/strong>, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/4\/1041.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">press release (pdf)<\/a>. Awadhi serves as a current board member of Sanadak\u2019s Ombudsman unit, and formerly led UAE financial sector initiatives as head of market conduct and financial consumer protection. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>About Sanadak: <\/strong>The Central Bank launched Sanadak <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/d164fc2d-50e9-4cf5-9966-781286c73c65\/cbuae-launches-region%25e2%2580%2599s-first-ombudsman-unit\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">last year<\/a>, an ombudsman unit responsible for dispute resolution. Consumers can file claims against ins. companies and banks through Sanadak's website or app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emirates Family Office Association tapped Ahmed Al Banna for its board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1549],"tags":[157,33],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-102712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moves","tag-central-bank-of-the-uae","tag-moves","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"307d22b5-f446-49b5-b40f-cd7ec08ee9eb","order":"10","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/9\/1532.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"EFOA taps new chair + GovDigital and Sanadak get new heads","related_issue":[102694],"teaser":"The Emirates Family Office Association tapped Ahmed Al Banna for its board","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/4\/.21592176-81df-4e49-9d79-1c8811e68399.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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