by Olivier Holmey
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Illustration: Pete Ellis |
When Michel Accad became chief executive of Al Ahli Bank of Kuwait (ABK), the bank was a small and rather boring financial institution.
“Nothing ever happened at ABK,” Accad tells Euromoney, bluntly, during an interview in his Kuwait City office. “It was pretty uneventful.”
He adds: “Nobody could remember the bank. Every time you’d say: ‘I’m from Ahli Bank’, they’d say: ‘Which Ahli Bank?’”
Accad, who is Lebanese but grew up in Switzerland, worked at Citi for 27 years, mainly in the Middle East and Africa.
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