Salman Ashraf - Managing Director

Salman Ashraf is a qualified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) with over 21 years of experience in financial services mainly working in the Middle East (U.A.E, Saudi Arabia & Bahrain) with top tier organizations such as HSBC Amanah, Standard Chartered Bank, Dubai Islamic Bank and latterly, for Deutsche Bank; as Global Head of Islamic Distribution, DIFC. Salman’s role included responsibility for the global sales of Islamic products (across all asset classes offered by the bank) and services, managing all key Islamic relationships, devising the DB Islamic sales strategy, and helping to develop and sell commodity, rates, credit and FX linked structured products. Salman also served as an advisor for the Treasury, ALM & FI function at a large Islamic Bank based in the Far East. He covered various Islamic geographies with more than 250 strong relationships comprising of Sovereigns, Supras, FI’s and Corporate Clients.

Prior to Deutsche Bank, Salman was responsible for Islamic clients for all Treasury, Cash and Risk Management Products, as Global Head of Treasury Sales at HSBC Amanah. Before this he was the Head of the Treasury & Financial Institutions Division, Dubai Islamic Bank. Previous to Dubai Islamic Bank, Salman worked for Arab Banking Corporation as Head of Structured Products, in Bahrain.

Salman holds a Masters in Business Administration and a P.G.D in Systems Analysis & Design. He also served on the DIFC Task Force for Islamic Capital & Money Markets Development, the MENA Regional Forex Associations, IBAINS and the CFA Institute.