Executive management
IBRAHIM RASHID JAFFAR
Chief Executive Officer
Ibrahim Rashid Jaffar is a banker with extensive experience in financial services, corporate governance, commercial, retail and SME banking, much of it gained in East Africa. Mr. Jaffar held senior management positions at some of East Africa’s largest banks including Chase Bank and First Community Bank. Prior to joining East Africa Bank as Chief Executive Officer, Jaffar led the SME Islamic Banking Group at Chase Bank, Kenya.
While at Chase Bank, he was responsible for crafting the Islamic Banking SME strategy and oversaw the implementation of best practices and corporate governance standards. Jaffar previously served as Senior Strategic Account Manager at First Community Bank (Kenya) where as part of the senior management team, he was heavily involved in developing the Commercial banking business.
Mr. Jaffar holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology (Major) , Government (Minor) from Kenyatta University- Kenya. and MSC- innovation, leadership, and management University of York ,
Mr. Jaffar is a Member of the chartered management institute of London and Kenya institute of Management .
MOHAMED KAMIL MOHAMED
Deputy Chief Executive Officer & Director of Marketing
Mr. Mohamed Joined the bank in June 2014 as Compliance and Credit risk Manager. Two years later, he rose to position of Chief Risk Officer in charge of the Bank Credit Risk and Compliance department. Prior to joining the bank Kamil worked at the Central Bank of Djibouti in the Department of Banking Supervision and Anti Money Laundering and Terrorism financing since 2012. During this period Kamil was in charge of supervising the Islamic banks portfolio especially approval, derogation, monitoring financial and prudential statements, ensuring compliance with Money Laundering and supervision of Money Service Business as well.
Further, while at the Central Bank, he attended training sessions on compliance risk and banking supervision organized by the Banque de France, IMF, the World Bank, UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), RTI (Research and Training Institute), ACAMS.
Mr. Mohamed is a Djiboutian nationality. He holds a Degree from Sup’ Management Group and double Masters in Audit & Management Control from Diploma de l’Ecole Superieure de management de commerce de commerce et d’Informatique, Fes, Morocco.
ISMAIL GARO GUYO
Chief Finance Officer
Mr. Ismail Guyo is an accomplished career accountant, Joined the bank in September 2014 as the Chief Financial Officer where he is in charge of Finance, FI’s &Treasury Operations and HR/Administration departments.
Previously, he served as the General Manager- Finance at the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC), where he was credited in transformation of the financial controls, investment and treasury operations of the state-owned corporation. He was tasked to spearhead strategic plan 2013-2018 in line with the Government MTP II for Development Finance and credit intervention for Agricultural sector and Kenya’s vision 2030 blue print. Guyo has an extensive banking experience spanning over two decades in areas of credit, operations and finance. Previously, worked for Equity Bank, First Community Bank and K-Rep Bank where he led the business performance, budgeting, strategy and planning portfolios.
Mr. Guyo holds MBA in Finance from the University of Nairobi (Kenya) and BSc- Business Administration from USIU (Kenya) majoring in Accounting and Finance disciplines. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA-K) and member of good standing with ICPAK since 2008. He has represented the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya at various committee levels including ‘Thought leadership and stakeholder management work stream’ and Public Policy.
Mr. Guyo attended several trainings organized by Strathmore university on leadership in 2013, IFC-GTFP on governance, credit and risk management in 2022 , Governance, Risk and compliance masterclass by Management Excellence (Dubai , December 2022) and several workshops and/or seminars by ICPAK since 2011. He is credited for his wealth of contributions on correspondent banking in emerging market, strategic thinking on Financial management, leadership, public policy and governance issues in both private and public sector.
ADEN ABDILLE
Ag. Director Risk and Compliance
Mr. Abdille joined the bank in 2017 as a Credit Risk Manager where he oversaw the bank’s credit section and reported to the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer. Aden has been appointed as Ag, Chief Risk, and compliance Officer in July 2023.
Aden’s well rounded experience spans over 15 years in managing credit risk. He was very instrumental in developing credit-scoring model and reviewing of bank’s credit and recovery policies among many others. Aden was part of the core team of the bank trained by IFC GTFP advisory services on corporate governance, global risk management, credit risk management, AML and CTF between 2021-2022.
Prior to joining the bank, he worked with First community bank as a credit Officer and senior credit analyst between 2011 to 2016. He joined the banking industry in 2007 as credit officer with K-rep group.Abdille holds Bachelor of Business Administration from Kenya Methodist University and Diploma in banking from Co-operative college of Kenya.