HSBC announces appointment of CEO Abu Dhabi

Notes and media contacts

Media enquiries to Dina Kotby, Press and Communications Executive, HSBC Bank Middle East Limited on tel 3906634

1. Mohamed Almulla
Mohamed Almulla is the Chief Executive Officer for HSBC office in Abu Dhabi. Mohamed has over 18 years of Banking and Finance experience. He started his banking career with ANZ Grindlays Bank in Dubai, where his last job was Corporate Account Manager. He joined HSBC 1995 in Human Resources as Resourcing and Development Manager. After 3 years, he moved to Credit and Risk department as a Credit Manager. In 2000, he moved to HSBC Sharjah office as Manager Commercial Banking responsible for the development of Corporate and Commercial relationships in that emirate. In 2003, Mohamed moved to HSBC's Dubai office as Senior Manager Commercial Banking.

Mohamed holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from California State University, Fresno and a Master's of Business Administration (MBA) from University of California, Riverside. Mohamed is Chairman of HSBC in the Community Foundation for the Middle East.

2. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited
HSBC is the largest and most widely represented international bank in the Middle East. HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has 30 branches throughout the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Autonomous Area including an offshore banking unit in Bahrain. This extensive regional coverage is strengthened by another member of the HSBC Group HSBC Bank Egypt SAE, and by its associated companies, The Saudi British Bank and the British Arab Commercial Bank Limited. In addition to its Middle Eastern network, the Bank has a representative office in Tehran, Iran.

2. HSBC Holdings plc
HSBC Bank Middle East Limited has been a principal member of the HSBC Group since 1959. Serving over 125 million customers worldwide, the HSBC Group has around 9,500 offices in 76 countries and territories in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. With assets of US$1,502 billion at 31 December 2005, HSBC is one of the world's largest banking and financial services organisations. HSBC is marketed worldwide as 'the world's local bank'.