Mr. Saad Azhari

• Chairman and General Manager of BLOMINVEST BANK S.A.L.
• Chairman of BLOM BANK SWITZERLAND S.A.
• Chairman of BLOM BANK EGYPT S.A.E.
• Chairman of BLOM BANK QATAR L.L.C.
• Board Member of BLOMINVEST SAUDI ARABIA
• Board Member of BLOM DEVELOPMENT BANK S.A.L.
• Member of the Board Risk Management Committee of BLOM BANK S.A.L.
• Member of the Board Consulting, Strategy and Corporate Governance Committee of BLOM BANK S.A.L. acting also for BLOMINVEST BANK S.A.L.
• Board Member of Banorabe SA, SPF
• Member of the Board Risk Management Committee of BLOMINVEST BANK S.A.L.
• Member of the Board Compliance Committee of BLOMINVEST BANK S.A.L.
• Member of the Board Compliance Committee of BLOM BANK S.A.L.

Mr. Saad AZHARI, born in 1961, is the Chairman of BLOM BANK S.A.L. since 2008, and prior to that, between 2001 and 2007, he was the Vice-Chairman and General Manager of BLOM BANK S.A.L. Mr. Saad AZHARI also assumes several functions on the Board of Directors of BLOM BANK Group’s entities. He is, in addition, the Vice President of the Association of Banks in Lebanon since 2001.

He joined BLOM BANK SWITZERLAND S.A. in 1991, was appointed its General Manager in 1997 and its Chairman in 2001. He worked from 1986 to 1991 at PBZ (Privatbank), an affiliate of UBS Group, in Zurich- Switzerland where he was promoted to run, from Zurich, the Bank’s operations in the Middle East and in its Hong Kong office. Mr. Saad AZHARI obtained a Master Degree in Computer Engineering, and afterwards a Master Degree in Business Administration (MBA), from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States of America.