Mr. Ashraf Savani is the Chairman of African Banking Corporation Ltd. He has 44 years of experience in the banking industry and is the founding Managing Director of ABC Bank having started it in 1984 first as a financial institution before converting it to a fully-fledged bank in 1994. He started his banking career in 1964 with Habib Bank Ltd rising to the position of Vice President at Habib Bank A.G. Zurich in 1984, when he left to form Consolidated Finance Company now known as, African Banking Corporation Ltd. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and a Diploma in Banking.

Mr. Richard Omwela holds a law degree from the University of Nairobi & a diploma, from the Kenya School of Law. He is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a partner in the leading Nairobi Law Firm of Hamilton Harrison & Mathews Advocates, where he is in charge of the commercial & Conveyance Department. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries of Kenya. He has been a Director of the Bank since 2000 and is the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Omwela sits on the boards of several other companies and is the Chairman of Kenya Rugby Football Union and was in the past the Chairman of Westlands Rotary Club of Nairobi.

Anil Ishani was until 2007 the Resident Representative of the Aga Khan Development Network in Kenya.  Early in his career having qualified as a Barrister at the Middle Temple in London, in 1959, he returned to Kenya and joined the family practice of Ishani and Ishani Advocates.  In 1972, he settled in the UK, and qualified as a Solicitor in 1975 and becoming a Partner in 1976, then a Senior Partner in 1989. In 1992, Anil enjoyed the privileged position as the only Consultant in the London office of UK Solicitors Dibb Lupton Alsop where he stayed until 1997.

In 1977, Anil had also been appointed by His Highness the Agakhan to the diplomatic position of the Resident Representative in Kenya of the Aga Khan Development Network and retired in 2007.  He now resides in Kenya and acts as a consultant.  He is a Council Member of the Superbrands.

Mr. Joseph Muiruri is an accountant by profession, having qualified as a fellow of Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (UK) in 1976 and is also a Practitioner of Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya. He retired in December 2002 after 35 years working with Ernst & Young East Africa, including 25 years as a partner and was Chairman of the firm from 1996 to 2002. As partner in charge of a large portfolio of major clients he gained wide auditing and accounting experience. He is now a Financial Consultant and also acts as a non executive director in a number of companies.

 

Mr. Shamaz Savani has a B.Com in finance and a B.A. in Economics; both from McMaster University, Canada, and an MBA from the University of Surrey in UK. He has been with the bank for over 11 years. He is responsible for strategy formulation, policy-making and IT Integration. In addition, he is the chief sponsor for all change management projects in the bank.