Dr. Najem bin Abdulla Al Zaid is the Founding Partner of ZS&R law firm in association with Hogan Lovells. He is the Vice Chairman of the Saudi Electricity Company and a member of the Tadawul Regulatory Policies and Oversight Committee. Further, he is a Governance Committee member at Saudi International Petrochemical Company and a Board and Board Risk Committee member at Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia.

He also served as the Vice Chairman of The Mediterranean & Gulf Cooperative Insurance & Reinsurance Company, board member of the National Centre for Privatization & PPP, member of the audit committees’ at Diriyah Gate Development Authority and the Saudi Agriculture & Livestock Company (SALIC), member of the governance committee at Arabian Centres Company, and member of the Saudi Delegation that negotiated KSA’s World Trade Organization (WTO) membership.

Prior to founding ZS&R, Dr. Al Zaid was the Chief Governance and Legal Officer at Al Rajhi Bank Group and had previously served as the Commissioner and a board member of the Saudi Capital Market Authority, appointed by royal decree. He also worked as Counsel at the Islamic Development Bank Group.

Dr. Al Zaid holds a Doctor of Juridical Science from the George Washington University Law School, USA, a Master of Laws from the University of Minnesota Law School, USA, a High Diploma in Law from the Institute of Public Administration, Saudi Arabia and a BA in Islamic Jurisprudence & Law from Umm AlQura University, Saudi Arabia. Further, he successfully completed the Harvard Law School Leadership Program and the London Business School Management Development Program. He has 27 years’ professional experience.

Mr. Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al-Helaissi is the Group Chief Executive Officer and a Board Member of Gulf International Bank B.S.C., Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia, Board Member of GIB Capital, and Chairman of Gulf International Bank (UK) Limited - UK.

Prior to joining GIB in February 2016, Mr. Al-Helaissi was the Deputy Governor for Supervision at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), having started there in May 2013. At SAMA, his responsibilities included the oversight of the Banking and Insurance sectors as well as finance company regulations (mortgage, leasing, and other nonbank finance institutions). He was additionally responsible for consumer protection.

Prior to SAMA, Mr. Al-Helaissi was Senior Country Officer and Managing Director, Saudi Arabia for JP Morgan Chase as well as Head of Global Corporate Banking for the Middle East and North Africa. Earlier in his career, he was Saudi British Bank’s (affiliate of HSBC), Central Province Area General Manager, covering all key lines of business, including corporate and consumer banking. He has also served on a number of boards, including the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul). He currently serves as a Board Member of the King Fahd Causeway Authority and a Member of the Emerging Markets Advisory Council of Institute of International Finance, Inc.

Mr. Al-Helaissi holds a BA in Economics from the University of Texas in Austin, USA and has 32 years of banking and regulatory experience primarily in Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Sultan bin Abdul Malek Al-Sheikh is a Senior Director - Head of Financial Institutions Sector at the MENA Investments Division at the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF). He is the Board Chairman of Saudi Company for Exchanging Digital Information (Tabadul) and a board member of Tahakom Investment Company, Al Marai Company, Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Real Estate Refinance Company (SRC).

Prior to joining PIF, Mr. Al-Sheikh held key positions in reputable financial institutions. He served as an Associate and Vice President of Investment Banking at Saudi Fransi Capital. Mr. Al-Sheikh also worked as an Officer in the Securities Listing Department at the Saudi Capital Market Authority (CMA) and as a Relationship Manager at the National Commercial Bank (NCB) of Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Al-Sheikh holds a MSc in Finance from the George Washington University, USA, and a BSc in Finance from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He has 18 years’ professional experience.

Mr. Bander bin Abdulrahman bin Mogren is the Chief Operating Officer at the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia (PIF). He is also a member of the PIF Nomination Committee, a board member of the Saudi Technology Development and Investment Company and the Chairman of its Remuneration Committee, and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Real Estate Company and a member of its Nomination Remuneration Committee. He’s also the Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Games Infrastructure Company and the Chairman of its Nomination Committee.

Mr. Mogren is a board member of King Abdullah Financial District and the Chairman of its Nomination Committee, a board member of Jassara, and a member of the Nomination Remuneration committees of Saudi Tadawul Group, Sanabil Investments, Noon, and the National Center for Privatization, Neom, Qiddiya, and The Saudi Arabian Military Industries Company. He is also a board member and Governance, Nomination and Remuneration Committee member of Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia.

Previously, he was a Managing Director of Human Resources and Corporate Services at NCB Capital, and Head of Human Resources at Jadwa Investment; as well as having held managerial positions at STC In addition to his membership of the Nominations and Remunerations Committee at the Riyadh Downtown Development Company.

Mr. Mogren holds a BA Double Major in Human Resources and Business Administration from Eastern Washington University, USA. He has 20 years of professional experience.

Dr. Khalid Abdulla Alsweilem is an accomplished economist and successful business leader, with over 30 years’ experience in business and government. He served as Director General of SAMA’s Investment Management Department and Chief Investment Officer. He was also responsible for the implementation of SAMA’s monetary policy operations to ensure banking sector system liquidity and the strength and stability of the Saudi currency. He is one of SAMA’s longest serving and most successful sovereign investment practitioners.

Dr. Alsweilem is Chairman of Ashmore Investment Saudi Arabia; an independent board member at Fajr Capital; a board member at Al Ra’edah Investment, and an investment committee member at the Arab Gulf Fund for Development. He is also Global Sovereign Wealth Funds Advisor with Price Waterhouse Cooper.

Dr. Alsweilem holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona, an MA in Economics from Boston University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Colorado. He is a non-resident Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School and is the author of academic papers on sovereign funds.

Mr. Fahad bin Abdul-Jalil Al-Saif has more than 20 years of Corporate, Investment Banking, Global Banking and Markets experience with public and private sector institutions. He is a Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Capital Finance Division at the Public Investment Fund. Prior to this, he was the President and Board member of the National Debt Management Centre.

Before taking up these roles, Mr. Al-Saif was Deputy Managing Director of Saudi British Bank (SABB), a Board Member of HSBC Saudi Arabia Ltd and a member of the Advisory Committee of Capital Markets Authority (CMA).

He was HSBC Saudi Arabia’s principal contact person for corporate finance and capital markets, in relation to ECM (IPO, rights issues, private placements) and to DCM (Sukuk and bond issuances, banks loans and syndication and financing services solutions). Prior to that, Mr. Al-Saif spent 10 years in SABB Treasury managing Trading, Fixed Income and Risk Advisory functions.

He established and led the Debt Management Office at the Ministry of Finance (MOF) during a secondment to the government in 2016. He managed the deficit financing process from local and international markets with the total value of local and international debt instruments and loans issued during fiscal years 2015-2020 amounting to SAR 900 billion.

Mr. Al-Saif is a member of multiple Vision 2030 Realization Programme Boards. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in MIS from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Rajeev Kakar is a board member of Eurobank Ergasias SA (Greece), Commercial International Bank (Egypt), UTI Asset Management Company (India), and is a Global Advisory Board member at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He is also a board member at Gulf International Bank - Saudi Arabia.

From 2006-2018, he was the Global Co-Founder of Fullerton Financial Holdings, a wholly owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, Singapore; and also served concurrently as the Global CEO of Consumer Banking, Regional CEO for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa; and as the founder, Managing Director and CEO of Dunia Finance, Fullerton’s UAE subsidiary. Prior to that, he was at Citibank for 20 years, finishing as the Regional CEO & Division Executive - Turkey, Middle East and Africa.

Mr. Kakar holds an MBA, Finance & Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, and a Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He has 35 years’ professional experience.

Mr. Frank Schwab is a strategic advisor, a co-founder of FinTech Forum Frankfurt, and a member of the Supervisory Board at Addiko Bank in Vienna. He also serves as a member of the Risk Advisory Committee at PayU in Amsterdam, a member of the Supervisory Board at Advanced Bitcoin Technologies AG, and as an Advisory Board Member at My Football Space. His main topics are innovation, crypto currencies, blockchain, technology and banking.

Previously, Mr. Schwab was the CEO of GIZS GmbH & Co KG (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe / paydirekt), MD of Token GmbH Germany, and Fidor TecS AG. He was also the Chairman of Hufsy in Copenhagen, and a senior advisor to McKinsey on banking transformation in Germany. He has held numerous management roles at Deutsche Bank AG, including Director for Strategy, Architecture, Business Development and Innovation; Group Technology & Operations; Private & Business Clients; IT & Operations; as well as Head of Internet & E-Commerce Technology. He also lectured for several years at the Mannheim Business School Creativity and Innovation Management.

Mr. Schwab holds an Executive MBA from Ashridge, UK and completed a Bank Officer apprenticeship with Deutsche Bank, Mannheim, Germany, and study of Computer Science and Business Administration at the University of Mannheim.

He has 25 years’ professional experience.

Nezar Al Saie is the Vice Chairman of the Board at Gulf Union Holding and is also an entrepreneur who has founded several leading regional companies in the telecom and building materials sectors in the Kingdom of Bahrain, including Kalaam Telecom and Polycon Bahrain, and is currently the Chairman of both companies. Previously, Mr. Al Saie spent 14 years at Investcorp Bahrain, where he was a member of the Management Committee and responsible for the placement of alternative assets including private equity, real estate, and hedge funds in the Gulf region. Prior to that, he was a Vice President at Chase Manhattan in Bahrain and London, where he worked across the global bank’s credit, corporate and private banking divisions. Mr. Al Saie served on the Boards of several public and private financial institutions, and as senior advisor to Lazard Brothers, London and Itau Bank, Brazil.

Mr. Al Saie holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin and a Master of Science in Management from London Business School.