Our Team

Eng. Yamani assumed the role of Chairman of Al Baraka Bank in 2020. He has been serving as CEO of Dallah Al Baraka Holding Company since 2020, and he held the position of Deputy CEO of the Real Estate Sector for Dallah Al Baraka Holding Company in 2017. Prior to that, he served as Assistant CEO of Dallah Al Baraka Holding Company. His experience extends to serving as CEO for the Arab Media Company and General Manager for Dallah Holding Company, Dallah for Industrial Investment, Dallah Agricultural Company, and Al Samaha Commercial Company – Jeddah.

Eng. Yamani serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Itqan Capital, Halawani Brothers, Maad International Company, Al Thuraya Holdings Al Manakha Urban Development Co., the International Biscuits Company in Riyadh, the Honor Club Company, Al Tawfiq Development and Investment Company “ADECO” in Beirut, and Godiva Investment in London.

Eng. Yamani also serves as Chairman for multiple companies including Egyptian Dallah Al Baraka for Investment and Development Company, Ismailia Poultry Company, Arab Moltaqa Investments Company, New Ismailia Company for Urban Development, Al Baraka Company for Financial Investments, Halwani Brothers Egypt, Dallah Real Estate Investments Company, Samla & Alam Al-Roum Company, and Almaza Real Estate Development Company. He is Vice Chairman of Al Tawfik Mutual Fund – Cayman Islands.

Eng. Yamani holds a degree from the Faculty of Engineering’s Industrial Engineering Section at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah

Mr. Hazem Hegazy is Al Baraka Bank’s CEO and has been Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2021. He joined Al Baraka Bank with more than 30 years of experience in the financial industry in Egypt and the GCC region, specializing in retail banking, SMEs, and risk management.

Prior to joining Al Baraka Bank, Mr. Hegazy served as Executive Vice Chairman at Banque du Caire. Prior to that, he held numerous leadership roles, including CEO of Retail and SMEs at NBE; CEO of the Egyptian division of Network International (NI), a leading UAE-based payment solution provider; and Head of Consumer Banking Group at Barclays Bank Egypt, where he managed the bank’s retail and branch network. Before that, he served as the Group Head of the Retail and Branches at NBE, where he restructured the retail business, Mr. Hegazy previously held the position of Head of Retail Banking at the Arab Bank, and he was the Head of Branches at Al Ahli United Bank in Qatar. He also served as AVP Operations Risk Manager for Union National Bank in UAE. Mr. Hegazy started his banking career at Mashreq Bank in the UAE.

Mr. Hegazy serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Tally for Payment Solutions, Egyptian Takaful Insurance Company, and Al Nasr Housing and Development Company.

Mr. Hegazy holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University.

Mr. Houssem Ben Haj Amor became a Board Member and Group Chief Executive Officer of Al Baraka Group (ABG) on October 24, 2022. He is also the Chairman of Al Baraka Turkey and a Board Member of Al Baraka South Africa, Jordan Islamic Bank, Al Baraka Egypt, Al Baraka Algeria and was a Board member of Al Baraka Tunisia until March 2023.

Mr. Amor has over 23 years of experience in the Finance industry across the Middle East, Europe and North Africa. Before his current role, he was ABG's Deputy CEO and Head of Business Development and Investments. He developed products and business initiatives across the Group, managed commercial banking and treasury functions, and was in charge of the Group’s strategy department.

Prior to ABG, Mr. Amor served as Chief Financial Officer at Amlak Finance UAE, a Sharia Compliant Finance Company, listed on the Dubai Financial Market and regulated by the UAE Central Bank.

Earlier, Mr. Amor spent 10 years at SHUAA Capital, a leading GCC financial institution listed on Dubai Financial Market and regulated by the UAE Central Bank. With a solid finance background, he started as Head of Accounting and quickly progressed his career to become the Group Chief Financial and Operating Officer then Group General Manager.

Mr. Amor began his career with Arthur Andersen/Moore Stephens before joining Societe Generale banking group.

Mr. Amor is a result-focused senior executive and trilingual Certified Public Accountant. Through his career, he acquired valuable experience working with all regulators across MENA as well as operating at the Board level of several listed and regulated organizations.

Mr. Hatem Abd El-Monem Mohamed Montasser joined Al Baraka Bank’s Board of Directors in 2022. He has more than three decades of experience in auditing, taxation, and consulting. Mr. Montasser joined KMPG Hazem Hassan in 1999 as a member of the senior management team and assumed the role of Executive Partner from 2014 until 2021. He also serves on the Board of Directors for KMPG Global for the Middle East and South Asia.

Mr. Montasser holds a bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Commerce, Alexandria University, and holds a fellowship of the Egyptian Association of Accountants and Auditors.

Dr. Wajeeha Awadh is a FinTech and digital transformation expert. She is currently serving as the Chief Digital Officer of Al Baraka Group and has previously worked in the fields of information technology, strategic planning, and sustainability. She is also an external advisory board member for the College of Business and Finance at Ahlia University and has served as an advisory board member at Bahrain FinTech Bay.

Dr. Awadh holds a PhD in Management with a research focus on FinTech from Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation, a Master’s degree in Project Management from the University of the West of Scotland, and a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from Staffordshire University. She has been listed among the Top 100 Global Chief Digital Officers by HP Enterprise, the Top 50 Most Influential Women in Islamic Business and Finance by Cambridge IFA, and the Top 100 Women in FinTech by FinTech Magazine in the UK.

Mr. Ahmed Mustafa Abd El-Hamid has been a member of Al Baraka Bank’s Board of Directors since 2018, representing Misr Insurance Company where he gained over thirty years of experience in the insurance industry. He has held the position of Head of Risk and Actuarial Affairs Since 2017. Mr. Abd El-Hamid has served as a member of the Audit and Risk Committee at Misr Insurance Company since 2019. He is also Chairman of the Corporate Risk Management and Compliance Committee of the Egyptian Insurance Federation.

Mr. Abd El-Hamid is a lecturer in Enterprise Risk Management at Cairo University’s Actuarial Department. He is also a fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute in London, where he obtained CIP and ACII certifications. He holds a bachelor’s degree of mass communication and a postgraduate diploma in public relations from Cairo University.

Mr. Mohamed Al-Shokary has been a member of Al Baraka Bank’s Board of Directors since 2020, boasting over 40 years of extensive banking and financial experience. Throughout his career, he has held various high-ranking management roles, including Advisor to the Board of Directors of the Libyan Foreign Bank, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jumhouria Bank, the largest Libyan bank.

Mr. Al-Shokary also served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab British Commercial Bank in London and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Arab Banking Corporation in Bahrain. He chaired the Board of Directors of the Arab Corporation Bank in Algeria and served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Arab Financial Leasing Company.

He held the role of General Manager of the Tunisian-Libyan Bank in Tunisia and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Arab International Trade Company in Egypt. Additionally, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Suez Canal Bank, the Sharm Group Tourism Company, and the International Financial Leasing Company - Incolease

Furthermore, Mr. Al-Shokary was a member of the boards of directors of the Spanish Arab Bank in Madrid and the Equatorian Bank in Uganda, and vice president of the bank’s African company in Togo. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Libyan Association of Banks and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Banking Training Institute. He is a member of the Libyan Society of Accountants and Auditors.

Mr. Al-Shokary holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Benghazi and a master’s degree in accounting from Oklahoma City University.

Dr. Ramy Al-Borai has been a member of the Board of Directors of Al Baraka Bank since 2022. He is internationally renowned for his legal expertise, built upon a distinguished career with some of the most prominent Egyptian and global institutions. He is the managing partner of the “Al-Borai & Partners” office for legal consultation, law and arbitration. He is a certified lawyer in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of New York in the United States of America.

Dr. Al-Borai provides legal consultations in the fields of commercial law, corporate law, banking transactions and financing, and has contributed to completing a group of diverse and complex deals in several fields and with diverse structures, such as project financing, asset financing, financial leasing, derivatives operations, syndicated loans, risk distribution, hedging agreements, and financing that can be converted into “mezzanine” capital.

He joined the “Sarey El-Din & Partners” office as a partner from 2009 to 2011 where he served as Head of the Private Investment Funds, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investment Banking Department. He also held the position of Deputy Chief Legal Counsel at The National Investor between 2006 and 2008 where he was responsible for investment banking, negotiating, reviewing agreements, and supervising cases. Additionally, he served as Chief Counsel at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi at Abu Dhabi from 2004 to 2006.

Dr. Al-Borai holds a doctorate from the University of London in the United Kingdom, specializing in the insolvency of multinational companies (2006), a master’s degree in comparative law from Southern Methodist University in Texas (2004), and a master’s degree in economic law from the University of Warwick (2001). He holds a bachelor ‘s degree in law degree from Cairo University (2000) and a bachelor’s degree in law from the Sorbonne University (1999).

Mr. Karim Mohamed Fouad El Fateh joined Al Baraka Bank Egypt’s Board of Directors in 2022. He serves as the Commercial Director at WAVZ for Digital Transformation, a role he assumed in January 2023.

During his 32 years of professional experience in the information technology industry, Mr. El Fateh held several managerial roles including Chief Executive Officer at Digitech - a Microsoft LSP partner, Regional Business Director at iXDev — a SaaS joint stock company that he cofounded. He was appointed as the General Manager for Egypt and North Africa at Intel Corporation - a multinational semiconductor company.

Mr. El Fateh holds a PhD in vocational education from Pebble Hills University, an MBA specialized in globalization from Maastricht School of Management, and a bachelor’s degree in electronic and communication engineering from Cairo University.

Eng. Ghada Labib is the Deputy Minister for Institutional Development at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt since December 2019. She has 30 years of accumulated experience in both the private and the public sector, a rich and progressive working expertise in the IT industry, Government, public policy, and administrative reform, developing and implementing efficient and effective national projects with a local impact. She is community-minded, patriotic, adept at building consensus and driving collaboration through risk and adversity.

Eng. Labib has been working in the public sector since 2005, and prior to joining the Ministry of Communications in 2019, she held several leadership positions within the government. Those roles include: Deputy Minister of Planning for Administrative Reform, H.E Prime Minister's Advisor for Follow-up and Information Systems, Chief of Staff of H.E Prime Minister's Office. She also served as Assistant Minister of Communications and Information Technology for Institutional Development, Assistant Minister of Administrative Development, and Director of the Technical Office of the Minister of Administrative Development.

Prior to that she has worked in the private sector for 12 years starting 1993 and has practical experience as an IT engineer. She worked as a Software Developer, delivering over 30 successful projects, followed by advancing to other roles such as Technical Team Leader and Project Manager. She also worked in the Information and Decision Support Center as a researcher upon her graduation in 1992.

Eng. Labib received a Bachelor of Electronics and Communications Engineering from Cairo University’s Faculty of Engineering, a Bachelor of Law from Cairo University, and a Master of International Business Administration from École Supérieure Libre des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées. She also has a Diploma of Public Policy from the French National Administration School (ENA), a Diploma in Leadership from Harvard University and a Diploma of Governance and Public Administration from the Civil Service College of Singapore. She holds numerous certifications on topics such as Operational Excellence, Business Continuity, Policy Design and Evaluation, Governance and Public Administration.

She is actively lecturing within national institutions, national and international events on topics such‎as‎Egypt’s‎ Digital Strategy, Business Continuity, National Security, Operational Excellence, Organizational Analysis, Critical Thinking, Design Thinking and other. She has been widely covered in the media and she has published various studies, working papers in newspapers and magazines. She has been active in supervising and discussing many scientific theses and graduation projects in various local universities as well as military educational institutions. She has visited over 20 countries to study their experiences in the field of digital transformation and institutional development including the United States of America, France, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Estonia, India, Germany, Italy, Rwanda, Hungary, South Africa, Qatar, Lebanon.

She has received extensive recognition along her career including having over 15 national and international awards, including being chosen as one of the 50 most inspiring and influential women in Egypt in 2020, and chosen to be part of the Amujae Leader list for 2021, containing 15 of the most inspirational African women leaders in the fields of management and public leadership.