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Faisal, is a career banker with more than 35 years of extensive experience in international corporate banking.

He started his banking career in 1978 with Bank of Credit & Commerce International where he worked for 16 years, based in Frankfurt and London. Following this, Faisal joined an investment bank in Nigeria where he worked as Executive Director – International in Lagos. Subsequently he joined UBL in Qatar in 2005 as VP- Head Corporate Banking and later was promoted to EVP -Country General Manager for Bahrain, spending a total of 6 years in the GCC. In 2011, Faisal was appointed CEO of UBL Switzerland AG, a 100% owned subsidiary of United Bank Ltd Pakistan, where he actively pursued the Trade & FI business and facilitated key changes in Management and Board positions. He revamped the business model, trade factory and operations, recording a five-fold increase in trade volumes by diversifying trade business with new territories, resulting in consistent double-digit growth, with ROE of 9% and trade volumes in excess of USD 1 billion.

In his most recent role, he was Group Head Trade Finance with UBL UK with the mandate to establish a trade unit in the country.

Faisal holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Karachi, Pakistan

Sohail has 30 years of experience in financial services, acquired at leading multinational financial institutions.

He started his career at Citibank (London) reaching the positions of Head of Global Product Development for Financial Institutions, Head of Structured Finance for Asia Pacific and Head of Cross Border European Structured Product Arbitrage within six years. His responsibilities included process and risk management, building and management of revenue, product innovation and deal execution in Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Far East.

Subsequently, he worked at Barclays Capital (London) for nine nears holding senior positions including Managing Director, with responsibility for expanding the company’s Structured Capital Markets business beyond the UK into North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

He then worked at Cobussen and Partners, providing advisory services for private equity infrastructure projects in South Asia, the Middle East and the UK and developing a portfolio of structured investments with a group of private and institutional investors.

Sohail holds an M.Sc. in Economics (Accounting & Finance) from the London School of Economics and an LLB (Business Law) from City of London Business School.

Khurshid has over 35 years of financial, management and entrepreneurial experience gained in a wide variety of commercial sectors.

He has worked in corporate and investment banking, power generation and healthcare. He held senior positions of responsibility including CEO of a listed power generation company (with market capitalization of $1.2bn), CFO of a sovereign wealth fund (with assets of $16bn) and COO of a commercial bank (with assets of $250m).

He is experienced in raising finance, both equity and debt, from working with corporate finance professionals, interacting with international commercial banks (from whom he raised $1.2bn) and multilateral lenders such as the World Bank (from whom he raised $1.6bn). He has also personally invested extensively in financial services and healthcare businesses.

Khurshid is a Chartered Accountant (FCA). He holds a bachelor’s degree in Law from the London School of Economics and a postgraduate diploma in Law from Manchester University.