Suresh Kumar has been a member of the senior Management of Emirates Bank Group since 1989 and, prior to that, had held senior treasury and general management positions in a Government of Dubai project and in the banking sector in India, in the U.K. and in the (West Coast) U.S.

He has been the Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Financial Services PSC; since helping to establish it in October 1997 as a successor to Emirates Merchant Bank Ltd (also incorporated by him as an offshore entity in 1991).

More recently, he has assumed the role of a Chief Mentor and Group Director in Emirates NBD; with responsibilities for a number of organic and inorganic initiatives.

Suresh Kumar graduated from the Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics of the University of Bombay with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree in 1971 and was the recipient of the Rotary International Scholarship (1977) tenable in California (U.S.A.) and the Lord Aldington Banking Fellowship (1978). He completed a post-graduate investment management programme conducted jointly by the Stanford University and the London School of Business. He also completed an Advanced Management Programme at the Columbia Business School.

He is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Bankers and a member of the regional Chief Executive Forum of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), Washington D.C, and he is also on the Boards of a few private equity funds / entities.

He writes regularly for the English and Arabic newspapers in the UAE and has addressed several symposia on financial and non-financial subjects in print, television and other media.