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Amie Bensouda - Chairperson
 Head of the Law Firm Amie Bensouda & Co. a firm of 4 Lawyers specialising in Corporate, Property, Banking and Finance, among other things, and human rights. She is the President of The Gambia Bar Association and also the Chairperson of the Institute for Human Rights Development in Africa . Amie was Solicitor General and Legal Secretary, Attorney General’s Chambers and Ministry of Justice from 1990 -1995 and also acted as Attorney General and Minister of Justice July/August, in 1994. She is Founder member of the Gambia Women Finance Association GAWFA (an N.G.O set up to improve women's access to credit). The clientele portfolio includes the multilateral agencies, multi-national corporations, public enterprises, private companies etc.
Amie graduated from the University of Lagos with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB Honours) and was admitted to the Nigeria Law School where she obtained her Barrister-at-law degree. She also attended Kenya School of Law to pursue a post graduate diploma in legislative drafting. Amie also trained at Royal Institute of Public Administration U.K; the International Development Law Institute, Rome, International Law Institute in Washington D.C. on, among other subjects, advance training on legislative drafting, privatisation of public enterprises, public enterprise reform, petroleum law, human rights.
Baboucarr Khan - Managing Director
 Before joining Reliance, Baboucarr was the Head of Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) in The Gambia and a member of the bank’s management team. Baboucarr managed a revenue budget of $7 million (about 60% of SCB’s budget) and a team of 70 people with overall responsibility for strategy, budget, product innovation, staff motivation and training, risk management and service delivery.
At SCB, Baboucarr was responsible for impressive growth and innovation. In 2004, Baboucarr and his team won the bank’s coveted Cowbell award for achieving the highest year on year revenue growth in the entire SCB group, 53%. Additionally, in line with the consumer banking division’s asset led growth strategy, Baboucarr re-launched the personal installment loan product with the introduction of direct sales representatives, which resulted in the portfolio increasing from $1.6 million to $3.8 million in six months representing an increase in market share from 10% to 50%. More recently, in 2005, Baboucarr led his team to another group award for being the business with the highest year on year growth in deposits. Baboucarr was also instrumental in developing and launching the first ever-residential mortgage product in the Gambia.
Prior to his role as Head of Consumer Banking, Baboucarr was the Financial Controller of Standard Chartered Bank where he was pivotal in spearheading series of process re-engineering programs resulting in cost savings of $500,000, earning his department the Cost Olympic Award. Whilst in this department, Baboucarr ensured that the unit achieved a 100% success rate in reporting to both the group finance and the local regulators.
Before working at Standard Chartered, Baboucarr was Head of Audit at KPMG. The clientele portfolio included Banking, Insurance, Telecommunications, Groundnut processing, Development Organizations, Multi-lateral Organizations, Port and Harbour and Pensions.
Baboucarr is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants (ACCA) in the UK.
Ebenezer Olufowose - Non Executive Director
Ebenezer Olufowose is an Executive Director at Access Bank Plc, Nigeria. Prior to joining Access Bank in June 2007, he was a Director with Citigroup, and an Executive Director and Head of Corporate Finance at Nigeria International Bank Limited, a subsidiary of Citigroup in Nigeria.
Prior to joining Citigroup in 2002, he was pioneer Managing Director of Guaranty Trust Bank (Gambia) Limited, on secondment from Guaranty Trust Bank plc Nigeria where he was General Manager and Head of Corporate Finance & Investment Banking.
Ebenezer is a first class honours Economics graduate of the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He also holds a masters degree in International Economics from the University of Sussex, Brighton, England, where he studied as a Sir Adams Thompson Scholar.
Ismaila Faal - Executive Director
Ismaila Faal was most recently the head of SME Banking at Standard Chartered, where he worked closely with Baboucarr Khan. Ismaila has nearly 15 years experience in the financial services industry both in The Gambia and the United Kingdom where he worked with Norwich Union Insurance Plc as an Underwriter and Claims Handler from 1999 to 2001.
Ismaila joined Standard Chartered in 2004 as head of the bank’s largest branch. In this position Ismaila managed a branch with 33 employees and was responsible for the recruitment, hiring and training of a new five person team to manage the bank’s personal installment loan product.
Ismaila was part of the team that set up Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) in The Gambia and was responsible for the treasury department of the bank, managing about $6 million. Ismaila also worked as Deputy Manager in GTB’s consumer banking division, where he was a member of the bank’s credit committee and was instrumental in growing deposits from $800,000 to $2 million in six months. Prior to beginning his job with GTB in The Gambia, Ismaila spent two months in treasury management and credit training with GTB in Nigeria.
Ismaila is a graduate of London Metropolitan University with a BA (Hons.) Division 1 in Financial Services.
Seedy A.B Njie - Board Secretary
Co-founder and Head of Finance and Financial Controls, Seedy is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA) and is responsible for the overall financial management, reporting and control of the activities of the business. He is also the Secretary to the Board.
Seedy demonstrates proven leadership skills in managing, developing and motivating teams to achieve set objectives. Over the years, he has built first-class analytical and problem solving skills geared towards excellence in service delivery and dedicated to maintaining high quality and compliance standards.
Prior to co-founding Reliance, Seedy trained and worked with Deloitte and Touche as a qualified accountant for a period of six years. Eventually, he rose to become a Senior Consultant with a wide range of experience from auditing Financial Institutions and Quasi Government Agencies to providing fiduciary advisory services to multi-lateral agency funded programs such as the World Bank Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Programmes (MAP), the Global Health Fund for TB, HIV/AIDS and Malaria (GHFTAM), DFID and the ADB funded Tourism Master plan for the Gambia.
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