MALAYSIA: Government investment arm Khazanah Nasional has appointed six new directors, four of them executive directors, to further strengthen its human capital and leadership formation. The four are Joseph Dominic Silva, Mohd Izani Ashari, Noorazman Abd Aziz and Mohammed Rashdan Mohd Yusof. Senior vice-president, finance, Mohd Izani Ghani, is now director and chief financial officer, succeeding Mohd Nadziruddin Mohd Basri, who is now executive director of investments. Sheranjiv Sammanthan is now a director in the managing director’s office.

SINGAPORE: Barclays Wealth has appointed Bryan Henning as head of global research and investments, Asia. He is also a member of the Barclays Wealth Asia Pacific management committee.

Henning oversees and leads the team in developing and marketing investment ideas and solutions to the Asia private banking business. He was previously the global product head in the wealth management division at Standard Chartered Bank.

INDONESIA: Bank Danamon has appointed Henry Ho as president director. He replaces Sebastian Paredes who announced his resignation in January. He previously worked at Bank International Indonesia and Citigroup. Danamon is the parent of Bank Danamon Syariah.

MALAYSIA: Prudential Assurance Malaysia has appointed Tan Liling as its chief operations officer. She takes over from Jeffrey Yem who has become the chief information officer. Prudential Assurance Malaysia is a subsidiary of Prudential, which owns Prudential Al-Wara’ Asset Management.

INDIA: Law firm Linklaters has appointed Sandeep Katwala as the regional managing partner of its Europe, Middle East and Africa practice. He succeeds Stuart Salt, who was appointed as the Asia managing partner earlier this year. He will however, continue to lead the firm’s India practice.

SUDAN: Al Salam Bank Sudan has appointed Mohammed Omeir Yousef as its new chairman, in place of Mohammed Ali Al Abbar who has resigned. Al Salam Bank said the resignation will not affect the composition of its board of directors.

BAHRAIN: Global Banking Corporation (GBCORP) has appointed Ahmed Al Mahmood to its Shariah supervisory board, while Laeeq Ahmad Hussain is the head of internal auditing. Al Mahmood was previously a Shariah auditor at Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and Al Baraka Islamic Bank, while Hussain was attached to Ernst & Young (Bahrain), Al Baraka Islamic Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Meanwhile, GBCORP promoted Fatima Al Banna from assistant manager at its human resources department to human resources and administration manager in GBCORP’s affiliate group, Global Real Estate Development Company.

UAE: National Bonds Corporation (NBC) has named Omar Subhi as chief financial officer, following the departure of former chief investment officer Jacques Bernard in a restructuring exercise. Subhi was previously the executive director, finance and treasury, at NBC. He has also worked at KPMG, Al Rostamani Group, TECOM and New Horizon.

EGYPT: Global Investment House (Global) has appointed Ahmed Ali as CEO of its Egypt branch. He previously worked at Beltone Financial (UAE), Prime Holding (UAE), SAB Holdings (Saudi Arabia), Prime Capital, Citibank and Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank in Egypt. Global owns the Global GCC Islamic Fund.

UAE: Sharjah Islamic Bank (SIB) has named Rahma Mohammed Al Shamsi as head of its corporate banking group. He will help develop all corporate banking services and products in compliance with Shariah principles. Al Shamsi, who joined SIB in 2004, was previously the deputy head of the credit group.

KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait has appointed Bader Sulaiman Al Ahmed as its new chairman. Al Ahmed replaces Dherar Khaled Al Rabah, who became chairman in April but resigned in May.