18 March 2015
Doha - Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) - Qatar's Leading Islamic Bank - has promoted Mr. Khalefa Saif Al Mesalam to become its new Head of Human Capital. Al Mesalam had already been working as the Acting Head of Human Capital, as well as Head of Recruitment for the Bank.

Khalefa Al Mesalam has 15 years of banking experience, with a blend of retail banking and human capital management expertise gained while working with leading international and regional banks. He started his banking career in the Retail Banking division and progressed to various lead roles in Customer Service, Branches Network and Human Resource Quality Control and Recruitment. He joined QIB in 2011 as Head of Talent Acquisition & Manpower Planning - a division within the Human Capital Group - from where he progressed to his current role.

Bassel Gamal, Qatar Islamic Bank Group's Chief Executive Officer, explained that Khalefa Al-Mesalam has climbed the professional ladder within QIB with absolute adeptness and commitment. "His promotion is in line with the Bank's strategy of developing and promoting national talent from within the organisation," he said.

"QIB is continuously increasing the role of talented and qualified Qataris in the leadership team of the Bank, and to this end QIB's on-going Learning and Development programme is targeted to encourage local talents to assume senior management roles." Gamal concluded.

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