The board of Saudi National Bank has appointed Tareq Al-Sadhan as CEO starting May 1, 2024. Prior to his new role, Al-Sadhan was president and CEO of Riyadh Bank since April 2019. From January 2018 to March 2019, he served as the bank’s senior executive vice president. Al-Sadhan also worked for KPMG Saudi Arabia, where he spent 18 years rising through the ranks to become one of the firm’s youngest partners. During his final five years at the company he was CEO, managing partner and chairman of its advisory committee. Al-Sadhan has also worked in the Kingdom’s public sector in roles including adviser to the chairman of the Saudi Fund for Development, acting director-general at the General Authority for Zakat and Tax, and deputy governor for supervision at the Saudi Central Bank. Al-Sadhan holds a bachelor’s degree in administration science from King Saud University, majoring in accounting, and a master’s degree in business management from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in France. He gained a diploma in international business from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 and a diploma in leadership development and strategy from INSEAD in 2010. Al-Sadhan is currently a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Saudi Organization for Certified Public Accountants. He has been an audit committee member at the Public Investment Fund since March 2019 and an advisory board member at Mastercard since March 2018.