Mr. Mohammed Yaqoob Buhijji

Mohammed Buhijji is an accomplished executive of multi-cultural environments with superb organizational skills and has enjoyed an exceptional career to date with more than 23 years of high-level management in banking and consultancy. His skillset embraces superb hallmarks of understanding business restructuring and development processes within an organization. An initial period with Ernst & Young became the baseline for his audit and consultancy skills with exposure to international business practices in major financial institutions and government bodies. He moved to the nascent Al Salam Bank in 2007 to establish the Internal Audit division and various departmental policies and procedures. His essential role in driving the two acquisitions and subsequent mergers with Bahraini Saudi Bank and BMI Bank covered integration and conversion of significant areas of business-related processes. Mr. Buhijji has been resolute in the delivery of operational and financial targets as evidenced by the seamless and impressive Retail Banking transformation within Al Salam Bank resulting in a major contribution to the Bank’s asset book and profitability. Mr. Buhijji holds MBA degree from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and completed two Executive Management Programs at Harvard Business School, Boston, and Ivey Business School in Canada.