Rajeev Kakar

Non Executive / Other Non-Executive
  • Director Verified:
  • No
Login/ Register  to follow report
Company:

About

Mr. Rajeev Kakar is a seasoned banker, business founder, entrepreneur, and corporate board member with over three decades of global banking experience and expertise in financial services, especially in Emerging Local Corporate/Commercial/MSME/ Retail Banking, across multiple countries, with focus on high-growth emerging markets in the Asia Pacific/ China, Europe, Indian Sub-Continent, MENA/GCC, and Central/Eastern Europe regions.

Mr. Kakar has a strong track record of successfully operating large banks, financial institutions, and leading business turnarounds, with a demonstrated ability to conceptualize and execute multi-country business strategies, lead acquisitions and business/ digital transformations, launch greenfield financial services businesses, and deliver profitability over a sustained period, while contributing to the community and actively serving on several prominent boards across different countries.

He started his career at Citibank NA where he worked for two decades, and in his last role was the Regional CEO for Citibank’s Turkey, Middle East, and Africa region until 2006. He moved on to become the Global Co-Founder of Fullerton Financial Holdings, Singapore, where he served for 13 years on the Global Management Board as its Executive Vice President and Global Head of Consumer Banking, and was CEO-CEEMEA region of Fullerton Financial from 2006 to 2017. While doing this role, he founded Dunia Finance LLC, Fullerton’s UAE subsidiary, where he served as its Founder Managing Director and CEO until 2018.

Mr. Kakar also serves on the boards of several Banks and Financial Institution, namely Eurobank Ergasias SA (Greece), Gulf International Bank (GIB Bahrain), Gulf International Bank (GIB Saudi Arabia), Commercial International Bank (Egypt), and UTI Asset Management Company (India). He has also been a member of the Global Advisory Board of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business since 2009.

 

Personal Details

Title: Mr
Surname: Kakar
M/F: Male
Nationality: Egypt
Country of Birth: Egypt
Language: English
Qualification: Not Available
Industry:

 

Qualifications & Experience

 

Industry Experience +5yrs:
Industry Qualification +5yrs?:
Finance experience +5yrs?:
Finance Qualification +5yrs:
Legal experience +5yrs?:
Delinquent director?:
Other Experiences?:
Collapsed company director?:

 

Other directorships (state)

(only entities turnover at least $5m p/a)

 

Working history

 

Committee/s

CompanyCommitteeRoleAppointment DateResignation Date
Commercial International BankBoardMember
Commercial International BankRisk & ComplianceChairperson
Commercial International BankNominations & GovernanceMember

 

Independence Questions

Any family members working for the company?:
Are you doing business with the company?:
Do you hold shares in the company for more than 0.10%? (directly or by representation):
Is your Director annual fee more than 5% of your total income from all sources?:
Are you more than 10 years as a director?:
Are you an executive chairperson?:
InsidEntity has assumed that responses to the Independent Questions are NO as the company has not populated the information. The result will present the Director as Independent.
Download PDF