Hassan Jarrar

Hassan is a senior business professional with over 40 years experience. His career includes CEO roles in Gulf Banks and numerous other senior executive positions in financial institutions in the USA and Middle East. In 2019, he was voted best banking CEO in Bahrain.

He has served on several private company and government boards, including chairmanships of full boards and individual committees. Hassan’s style is distinguished through out of the box thinking, open communication, clear strategic focus, selling his vision to stakeholders, and empowering and coaching management teams. Throughout his career he has helped develop and guide many leaders who went on to more senior roles.

Having spent most of his childhood in Saudi Arabia, Hassan emigrated to the United States with his family where he studied and started his career with various banks in California.

He holds a finance degree from the California State University and is bi-lingual – Arabic and English.