Alkhair International Islamic Bank Berhad (AKIIB) appointed Mr. Yeow Tiang Hui as its new Chief Executive Officer effective August 1st 2017. Prior to this position, Mr. Yeow pursued an illustrious career that spanned several multinational banks. His portfolios include managing the MNC portfolio at Deutsche Bank and being the Vice President of Citibank/Citicorps’s venture capital outfit and Head of Commercial Banking.
Mr. Yeow was the Malaysian country head of the French banking group Crédit Industriel et Commercial from 1997 to 2005, where he covered the bank’s offshore wholesale banking business in Malaysia, the Greater China, and the Philippines. Thereafter, Mr. Yeow went on to head the Corporate Bank of Kuwait Finance House in Malaysia.
An alumni of the National University of Singapore, where he studied International Finance, Banking & Monetary Economics, he obtained further training in banking and finance from Singapore Institute of Banking and Finance, Deutsche Bank Asia Pacific, and Citibank Asia Pacific Banking Institute.
Mr. Yeow Tiang Hui succeeds Dato’ Adissadikin Ali who left the Bank in 2016 to head RHB Islamic Bank.