Mr. Shanti V. Shah

Shanti Shah holds a bachelor of Commerce degree. He is a highly successful & a very well known industrialist, based in Nakuru. He has been the Chairman of the board since 2008. He is also a director of Valley bakery Ltd, Buds and Bloom ltd among other companies.

Mary Reba Chabeda-Ouko

Reba is a partner at Umsizi LLP, a firm of Advocates, Corporate Secretaries and Alternative Dispute Practitioners.

Reba attained her undergraduate Law degree (LLB) at the University of Nairobi and holds a Master of Laws Degree (LLM) in Commercial Law from the University of Cape Town. She also is a Certified Public Secretary, Certified Public Accountant, Governance Auditor and Certified Mediator.

Reba has worked within the East African Region in both a legal and corporate secretarial capacity, in various industries including Property Development and Real Estate, Oil Marketing, Cement Manufacture, Banking, Insurance, Agribusiness, Non- Profit Sector, SMEs and Education.

Reba’s forte is in the areas of Corporate Transactions, Corporate Governance, Legal Compliance, Property and Commercial Law Transactions.

Reba just concluded her three year term as a Council Member at Karatina University (a public university). She is currently the Chief Examiner for the Corporate Secretarial Course at KASNEB.

Reba enjoys sharing knowledge and experiences by conducting seminars addressing various topical issues in the areas of Corporate and Commercial law and Governance.

I look forward to being of service as a Member of the Board of this Bank.

Rupen M. Haria

He is a highly successful businessman with a sound reputation in the society and business circles. He was appointed as a Director on 29th June 2012. He brings a wealth of experience to the board being the MD of Harleys Ltd ( a highly reputable pharmaceutical company) and director of Rahans Ltd and Universal Corporation Ltd among other companies

Simon Gregory

Simon Gregory, an experienced corporate finance and investment banker, is a qualified Bachelor of Science in Economics with Accountancy from the Loughborough University of Technology, UK. In 1998, he also qualified as a Chartered Accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. He has a decade and a half of experience in investment banking at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and corporate finance at ABN Amro. He has handled a wide spectrum of corporate finance and broking related transactions. He is currently the Executive Director of SBT Software Operations SA (PTY) Ltd.

Jayesh Shah

Jayesh Shah, the Group Managing Director and CEO of Sumaria Group, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management (Marketing) from the University of Lancaster, UK. He joined the family business in 1982 and has been instrumental in the exponential growth of the group from having a small presence in Tanzania to a conglomerate operating across various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and also overseas having interests in trade and manufacturing. In addition to having served on various boards of the group companies as Chairman, he has also been a Non Executive Director of the International School of Tanganyika and Standard Chartered Bank, Dar es Salaam. He is currently the Non Executive director of Alliance Insurance Corporation Limited, Dar es Salaam and Management and Development for Health (MDH) Tanzania. In addition, he holds the position of Vice Chairman of Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI), an independent, self-financed, legally constituted organization that aims to ensure that there is a conducive legal, financial and economic environment within which industry can operate effectively, prosper and contribute to national wealth and development as well as the Chairman of CTI’s Infrastructure Development Committee.