Nass Corporation, a Bahraini public joint stock company, has appointed Hemant Joshi as a director on the board.

Joshi's appointment was approved by the company's shareholders at the annual general meeting last week, said report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.

He is also a director at Nass Corporation's parent company A A Nass and Sons and is assuming this additional role with immediate effect.

Chairman Sameer Nass said Joshi's efforts were instrumental in the implementation of the Nass Corporation initial public offering in 2004, thereby taking Nass, a family business leader, into the public domain.

“Hemant's professional handling of the group's corporate services and finance is laudable and he has contributed significantly towards creating a credible image of the group in the corporate circles of Bahrain, specially the finance and banking industry,” Nass said.

Joshi is a chartered and cost management accountant from India and an MBA and FCMA from UK.

He is also registered as an expert on the GCC Arbitration panel.

Joshi is one of the first expatriates in Bahrain to be on the board of a Bahraini public listed company. - TradeArabia News Service