Priyanthini McNair joins Asia Asset Finance Board

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Priyanthini McNair

Asia Asset Finance PLC has appointed Priyanthini McNair to its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

McNair is a seasoned global banking leader with over 25 years of extensive international experience across the UK, Hong Kong, the MENAT region, India and Singapore, and is the founder of APG Management Consulting.

Most recently, she served as the Global Co-Head of Corporate Coverage and Senior Managing Director at Emirates NBD Group, where she led international corporate banking, overseeing a multi-billion-dollar portfolio and global sector coverage across seven countries.

Prior to Emirates NBD, McNair spent over two decades at HSBC in senior leadership capacities, including Regional Head of Coverage for Commercial Banking across MENAT (Dubai), UK Head of Leveraged Corporates (London), and Global Head of Business Development and Chief of Staff for Large Corporates (UK & Hong Kong).

Earlier in her career, she trained in Audit and Business Assurance Services at Ernst and Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Sri Lanka.

McNair brings deep expertise in corporate banking and finance, risk governance, capital allocation, ESG-aligned financing, and strategic growth spanning multiple sectors and geographies.

Priyanthini is a CFA Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant (CA Sri Lanka) and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA, UK), and is an active coach/mentor.