AlRayan Investment, the wholly owned investment subsidiary of AlRayan Bank, has appointed Bryan Crawford as Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Akber Khan, who had been serving as Acting Chief Executive.
Crawford joins with more than thirty years of international experience across investment management, wealth management and investment banking, spanning Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Crawford joins most recently from Quintet Private Bank, where he was a managing director and a board member of Quintet Asset Management. As a member of the Authorised Management Committee he led the group's investment, financing and trading activities.
Before Quintet he held senior leadership roles at UBS Wealth Management, including global head of alternatives distribution and head of product sales for Asia Pacific. He spent seventeen years at JP Morgan Investment Bank, and began his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.
He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA BAI in computer engineering and mathematics from Trinity College Dublin.
Mohammed Jaber Al Sulaiti, chairman of AlRayan Investment, said: "We are pleased to welcome Bryan to AlRayan Investment as chief executive officer." He added that "working closely with the Board, AlRayan Bank and the wider Group, Bryan will lead the next phase of our development", and thanked Akber Khan for his leadership as acting chief executive officer.
Crawford said: "Our clients will be at the centre of everything we do." He said his focus would be on serving all AlRayan clients to the highest standard, and pointed to the opportunity to offer clients a stronger and more complete Sharia-compliant investment and advisory proposition, which he said would depend on close collaboration across the Group.
AlRayan Investment was established in 2007. It is authorised by the Qatar Financial Centre Regulatory Authority and licensed by the Qatar Financial Markets Authority, and operates under its own Sharia Supervisory Board. Its products include the AlRayan GCC Fund and the Al Rayan Qatar ETF, which trades as QATR.
The mandate, as the Chairman frames it, covers the next phase of development across both asset management and investment banking, expanding investment capabilities and broadening the solutions offered to clients.
