Yazan Alkayali

Chief People & Culture Officer at Zand Bank

Yazan is a Certified Human Resources Professional, Certified HR Auditor, Certified Strategic Business Planner, and Hawkamah & DFM Certified Board Secretary with 18 years of diverse experience.
At present, he’s the Chief People & Culture Officer at Zand, where he translates visions and formulates them into HR strategies that improve performance, growth, organizational development, and corporate culture.
His experience involves various industries such as banking, financial services, retail, media, engineering, investment, and hospitality. Moreover, he has extensive involvement in long-range strategic planning that resulted in innovative changes and promoted organizational efficiency, cost-effectiveness, systems & tools, and synergetic work environments.
He’s passionate and well-versed in areas of recruitment & selection, people development, succession planning, project management, compensation & benefits, performance management, training & development, Labor Laws, and organizational development.
Yazan holds a degree in Organizational Leadership & Supervision from Purdue University and Business Management from Indiana State University, USA