The SME Banking team organized a family bowling event at the City Centre Bowling Alley to celebrate the teams successes in 2010. The fun-filled event was attended by the SME team, their families and senior management from the Consumer Banking team. The competitive bowling event was followed by an award ceremony where Sai Narain CDK, Regional Head of Consumer Banking, Northern Gulf and Levant and Qamar Saleem , Regional Head of SME Banking Northern Gulf and Levant recognized the contribution made by the top performers of the SME team. The award categories consisted of awards given out to the Top Medium Enterprise Relationship Manager of the year, Top Small Business Relationship Manager of the year, Top Sales Person of the year, Service Champion of the year and the Strategic Contribution Champion of the year. The awards were given out to Ameen Ameeri, Paras Parashar, Mohammed Besbas, Manal Juma and Samira Shafiqi respectively. The event was followed by a sumptuous dinner at the Wafi Gourmet.
“Our biggest asset is our people; our focus for 2010 has been to foster engagement and motivation within our employees by holding regular team building activities and celebrating the success of our top performers. We have ambitious plans of growing our business in the emerging markets of the Middle East and Africa and will only be able to meet our aspiration through engaged employees,” said Qamar Saleem.