The Board of Directors of Allied Bank has appointed Tariq Mahmood as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bank, effective June 17, 2013, subject to all the statutory approvals from the State Bank of Pakistan. Tariq Mahmood is amongst one of the senior most serving bankers in the country with over 40 years of rich banking experience.
He completed his postgraduate degree in commerce in the year 1970 and obtained a certification in Islamic Banking in the year 2006, in addition to having attended various leadership and strategy workshops within the country, as well as, abroad. He started his career in 1971 with Habib Bank and served for around nine years in various managerial roles, before joining the Middle East Bank (MEB), as Branch Manager. He served MEB for over 12 years and then joined Askari Bank Limited, where he excelled to the level of Senior Executive Vice President in the year 2003.
In 2007, Tariq Mahmood joined Allied Bank as Senior Executive Vice President and Group Chief (Operations). In this position, he was looking after the Bank's country-wide banking operations, in addition to administration, engineering and security. He took over as the Group Chief, Banking Systems Implementation Group, in 2012, responsible for overall transformation of the Bank's system from Unibank to Temenos 24.
The elevation of Tariq Mahmood as the CEO of Allied Bank is being seen as yet another step for the Bank towards achieving remarkable milestones in the banking sector and it is being considered as a good addition to the ranks of top bankers in the country."-PR
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