Andrew Pocock
Managing Director, Private Equity

Mr. Pocock joined Ithmaar Bank in January, 2008, bringing extensive experience in private equity, and in international investment and commercial banking acquired from varied assignments in Europe, the Americas, the Far East and the Middle East. During his career, Mr. Pocock has been an Executive Director of a leading international merchant bank, Samuel Montagu and Co. in London (now part of HSBC Group); undertook advisory assignments for the World Bank; and headed the European business from London of Gulf International Bank (GIB), from 1994 to 2000, when he was appointed GIB’s Head of Banking in Bahrain. Subsequently, as a senior investment Director with Emerging Markets Partnership (Bahrain), Mr. Pocock was responsible for some of the large, successful investments in the $730.5 million Islamic Development Bank Infrastructure Fund. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Pocock served at Gulf One Investment Bank where, as Managing Director, Infrastructure, he was the architect of a number of private equity infrastructure initiatives. Mr. Pocock began his career with Bank of London & South America, serving in Peru and Uruguay, followed by several years with J Henry Schroder Wagg & Co, London-based merchant bankers, and with Scandinavian Bank - in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and in Bahrain where, from 1978-1980, he was Regional CEO and Head of the OBU Branch.