His Royal Highness Prince Amr has extensive and varied experience spanning more than 12 years of experience in commercial and investment banking businesses, and executive management, architecture and engineering. He is a member in the Board of Supervisors for a DMI holding group, Faisal Islamic Bank of Sudan and Faisal Islamic Bank of Egypt, and chairman of Al Daleel company for information systems, and founder and director of the Red Sea Engineering Consultancy Office (Jeddah), and Al Daleel company for Information Systems (and its headquartered in Jeddah with sister companies in Tunisia, Sudan and Pakistan), and Al-wadi Trading Co., Ltd. (Jeddah) and Amr Establishment for Marketing and Commerce. He is a Fellow of the Saudi Society for communities of construction and development of the city and cleaning up the environment, and member of the Saudi Council of Engineers. His Royal Highness Prince Amr holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Essa has served as a regional director of the Faisal Islamic Bank and has extensive banking experience Gained from holding various positions in government financial institutions such as the Industrial Development Fund and the private sector. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from King Saud University in Riyadh. He has received training courses in the field of banking and financing industrial projects such as intensive courses at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, United States of America and other courses from London UK and Citibank Greece.
Key Positions Held
• 38 years’ experience in Banking, Investment, Finance and Accounting.
• Fellow member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, England( 1986);
• Certified Director from the Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance;
• Bachelor Degree in Accounting, University of Helwan, Cairo (1980);
• Executive General Manager, Ithmaar Bank BSC, Bahrain (2010-2013);
• General Manager MFAI (Jersey) (2000-2010), then (2013- Now), wholly owned subsidiary of the DMI Group;
• Executive Senior Manager, Shamil Bank of Bahrain BSC (formerly: Faysal Islamic Bank of Bahrain) 1988-2000;
• Board memberships : Faysal Bank, Pakistan; Gulf Investors Asset Management, Saudi Arabia; CITIC International Asset Management, Hong Kong; United Bank of Albania (until 2011); Egyptian Investments Co; in addition to entities ranging from trading, industrial, real estate development, in Bahrain, Cayman, USA and Egypt.
• Worked with Touché Rose, London (now Deloitte), and Peat Marwick Mitchell Bahrain (now KPMG) – Chartered Accountants;
• Lead restructuring of Group institutions as well as major Mergers & Acquisitions.