Dr R. Seetharaman, CEO of Doha Bank, has won the ‘CEO of the Year’ award at the EMEA Finance Middle East Banking Awards 2017 ceremony. He bags the award for bringing ‘transformational leadership’ in Doha Bank with focus on technology and sustainable development. Dr Seetharaman received the award at Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai, recently. Accepting the award, he said the key areas which require attention include realignment of business model in accordance with structural changes in environment, building strong corporate image, sustaining growth, grooming people for global environment, leveraging technology, giving back to society and managing stakeholder expectations. Digital governance and sustainable development are the key enablers of future banking. He also added that fintech, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and artificial intelligence are some of the major technological developments while robotics, enabled by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is proving to be a game changer that can bring unique operational efficiencies to the financial services industry.
