Mr. Hasan A. Bilgrami is the Founding Chief Executive Officer and Director of BankIslami. His association with BankIslami started as a consultant to the sponsoring shareholders right at the inception of the project where he was responsible for developing the business plan, arranging permissions, staffing and capital raising. Previously he worked as the Head of Asset Management with the National Investment Trust (NIT), as Country Manager Consumer Banking & Corporate Business with Gulf Commercial Bank (now PICIC Commercial Bank Limited) as General Manager Corporate Finance with ORIX Investment Bank and as Director and Head of Corporate Finance with Khalid Majid Husain Rahman, then a member firm of Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Bilgrami has overall 19 years of professional experience.
Mr. Bilgrami has hands on experience in structuring Islamic modes of financing while he worked as a Secretary of the Financial Instruments Committee of the Islamic Finance Commission. His specific task was development of model financial instruments that could be used by the financial services industry in Pakistan. The scope of work not only included both asset and liability side products, but also included areas such as risk management and capital adequacy. Model agreements were also part of the mandate. His work of model agreements has been approved by the Shariah Board of the State Bank of Pakistan and has become the industry standard.
He is a Director on the Board of BankIslami's subsidiary, BankIslami Modaraba Investment Limited, Director of KSB Pumps Limited as well as a Chairman of its Audit Committee, Nominee Director of Haleeb Foods Limited. He is also the President of the National Council of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, Director of Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance and a member of the Institute of Capital Markets, Pakistan.
He has also been a Director on boards of PICIC, Soneri Bank Limited, Crescent Commercial Bank Limited, Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited and National Refinery Limited.
Mr. Bilgrami graduated in Commerce from Karachi University and is a Fellow member of the Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of Pakistan and a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute.
