Board of Directors

Mr. Karim Wissanji

Chairman

Mr. Karim Wissanji operates at the helm of several hospitality, real estate and tourism investment in East Africa and is Group Managing Director at Sopa Lodges and CEO & Chairman at the Elewana Collection, Sky Safari, and Trilogy Africa Group. He studied in Canada and thereafter attended the Executive Business Program & Executive Leadership Development Program at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. Mr. Wissanji was appointed to the DTB Tanzania board on 28th August 2013. Mr. Wissanji is aged forty-eight years.

Shaffiq Dharamshi

Vice Chairman

Mr. Dharamshi was appointed to the board in April 2015. He is a professional banker with over twenty years of senior management experience in the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Dharamshi is the Head of Banking for the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), and responsible for providing oversight on operations of financial institutions in the AKFED portfolio across Asia and Africa. He also services as a director on the boards of DTB Uganda and DTB Kenya, Habib Bank Limited, Pakistan, Kyrgyz Investment and Credit Bank, Kyrgyzstan, Frist Microfinance Bank, Tajikistan, and DCB Bank, India. Prior to taking this position with AKFED, he was Senior Vice President, wholesale credit risk management at Mashreq Bank in Dubai. Before joining Mashreq Bank, Mr. Dharamshi spent 17 years with Citibank in a wide range of positions across different areas of the bank in Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Dharamshi holds an MSc. in Economics / Information Systems from the London School of Economics. He is also a member of the Institute of Directors (Kenya). Mr. Dharamshi was appointed as the DTB Tanzania board Vice Chairman on 14th June 2019 after serving on the board for four years. Mr. Dharamshi is aged fifty-five years.

Nasim Devji

Director

Mrs. Devji joined the DTB Group in 1996 following which she was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Trust Bank in East Africa in 2001. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, a Fellow of the Kenya Institute of Bankers, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors (Kenya) and an Associate of the Institute of Taxation (United Kingdom). Mrs. Devji is a director of DTB Tanzania. DTB Uganda. DTB Burundi, Jubilee Insurance Burundi, Diamond Trust Insurance Agency Limited and the Nairobi Securities Exchange Limited. She has also previously served as a member of the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation. Mrs. Devji is aged sixty-six years.

Xavier Lucas

Director

Mr. Xavier Lucas was appointed to the DTB Tanzania board as a Director on 12th December 2017. Mr. Lucas is a finance professional with over twenty-two years of experience and a strong background in audit and finance. He has worked with Ernst & Young as an auditor for seven years in France and Japan, Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) for six years under various roles and for five years as Chief Financial Officer of a state company in Dubai. Currently, Mr. Lucas has been working with AKFED as a consultant in banking services since September 2016. Mr. Lucas is aged forty-nine.

Mrs. Zulobia Dhala

Director

Mrs. Zulobia Dhala was appointed to the DTB Tanzania board as a Director on the 16th December 2018. Mrs. Dhala is a prominent business woman in Tanzania with extensive experience in logistics and warehousing. Mrs. Dhala holds a Masters’ Degree in Business Administration from the University of Liverpool, Post Graduate Diploma in Business Studies and Bachelor of Science in Economics, both from the London School of Economics (LSE).Mrs. Dhala is a prominent member of the Rotary Club of Bahari Dar-es-Salaam where she has served as a President of the Club for two years and is at present an Assistant Governor for the Rotary District 2011. Mrs. Dhala is aged sixty one.

Zahir Jivani

Director

Mr. Zahir Jivani is the Managing Director of Tunakopesha Limited, a microfinance enterprise. He was past President of His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imam Ismaili Council for Tanzania, Board Chairman of the Aga Khan Education Services, Tanzania and a member of the Aga Khan Foundation Committees of Tanzania and East Africa. Mr. Jivani is a BSc Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of Calgary, Canada, with academic exposure in management, governance and other technical fields. Mr. Jivani was appointed to the DTB Tanzania Board on the 16th of August 2013. Mr. Jivani is aged sixty four years.

Muzaffer Khawaja

Director

Mr. Muzaffer Khawaja was appointed to the DTB-Tanzania Board of Directors on the 12th June 2020. He is an experienced Banker with over 33 years of experience in banking in Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa and the United States of America.
Mr. Khawaja served in the role of Chief Operating Officer for Citibank and ABN-AMRO Bank in Greece, Pakistan and the UAE. He has also held directorial positions in Citicorp Investment Bank Ltd. Pakistan, ABN-AMRO Securities Greece, ABN-AMRO Insurance Greece, ABN-AMRO Asset Management Services Greece, ANN-AMRO Investment Bank Greece and ABN-AMRO Services Company Dubai.
Mr. Khawaja was also the founder CEO of Acumen Consulting which he founded and managed from 2007 till 2015 in Dubai. Acumen Consulting provided advisory and training services to banks in the UAE and other Gulf countries on developing and upgrading banking processes, including Risk and Compliance, Human Resource and business development.
Mr. Khawaja studied at the London School of Economics and University of Karachi and holds two Masters of Science Degrees in Economics and Applied Economics.
He is aged 64

Uday Bhasin

Director

Mr. Uday Bhasin was appointed to the DTB Tanzania Board of Directors on the 12th June 2020. He is an experienced Finance and Investment professional in the fields of Corporate Finance, Business Strategy Development and Investment in UK, Africa, India and UAE. 

Mr. Bhasin served as Chief Investment and Finance Officer at Sharjah Holding, a respected business house in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Mr. Bhasin also served as an Executive Director for a private investment company – Dubai Group with multibillion Dollar Portfolio of listed and unlisted assets across the globe. Uday was also the Director, Advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers, London (PwC) for 10 years. 

Mr. Bhasin is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and holds the Corporate Finance qualification from the same establishment. He also holds a degree in Economics from the University of Manchester, UK.  

Mr. Bhasin is aged 49 years.