{"id":104773,"date":"2025-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/new-leadership-at-emirates-investment-bank-and-hsa-rakbank-departure\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:00:00","slug":"new-leadership-at-emirates-investment-bank-and-hsa-rakbank-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2025\/06\/19\/new-leadership-at-emirates-investment-bank-and-hsa-rakbank-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"New leadership at Emirates Investment Bank and HSA + Rakbank departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Emirates<\/strong> <strong>Investment Bank has named Kishore Venkat (<\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kishore-venkat-5b816059?originalSubdomain=ae\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong><strong>) as its interim CEO<\/strong>, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/6\/1033.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">statement (pdf)<\/a>. The appointment has been effective since 17 June and was confirmed by the Central Bank of the UAE. This follows the resignation of the previous CEO Gaurav Bipinchandra Shah at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/3b55933e-6ae1-46a9-895d-95197a1ba343\/emirates-investment-bank%25e2%2580%2599s-ceo-resigns\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">end of April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Business <\/strong><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">conglomerate Hayel Saeed Anam &amp; Co. (HSA) appointed <\/strong><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Dirhem<\/strong><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> Saeed<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> <\/span><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">as chairman of the board<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">, according to a <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/hsa-group_hsagroup-leadership-activity-7341035396849356801-vzY3?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAADAUJZ8Br23Kv54kDyrvxGUyLkbiQlSEyyw\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">. Dirhem was previously the board\u2019s vice chairman, and succeeds former chairman Abdul Jabbar Saeed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Mohamed <\/strong><strong>Abdelfattah<\/strong><strong> resigned as group company secretary of the National Bank<\/strong> <strong>of Ras Al Khaimah (Rakbank)<\/strong>, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/6\/1022.pdf\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">bourse disclosure (pdf)<\/a>. The resignation has been in effect since 2 June, and the disclosure did not specify a successor or a reason for the departure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emirates Investment Bank named Kishore Venkat as its interim CEO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104774,"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":[33,719],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-104773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moves","tag-moves","tag-rakbank","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"c3580523-d289-4d2b-b8c3-e74dc1518aa1","order":"8","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/6\/1057.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"New leadership at Emirates Investment Bank and HSA + Rakbank departure","related_issue":[104759],"teaser":"Emirates Investment Bank named Kishore Venkat as its interim CEO","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/6\/.5f3953bc-b924-4d40-8a0b-0a5a73b9c58d.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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