Mr. Irfan Saleem Awan is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan and a Certified Director from Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance. He also holds Advanced Certificate in AAOIFI Shariah Standards from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA-CEIF), Karachi.

His professional career spans over two decades with experience of working in various areas, including finance, compliance, enterprise risk management, strategic planning, company secretarial, and external audit. He completed CA training from Ernst and Young, Pakistan (Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder & Co.) and subsequently worked there as an audit supervisor. Since than he has worked in the financial industry with various organizations including Prime Commercial Bank Limited, Askari Commercial Bank Limited, Askari Investment Management Limited, KASB Funds Limited, Pak-Libya Holding Company (Pvt.) Limited and Summit Bank Limited.

Prior to joining Bank of Khyber, he was working with Summit Bank Limited, and his last assignment was Chief Financial Officer with additional acting charge of Head Risk Management Division. He was also a nominee director on behalf of Summit Bank Limited on the Board of its wholly owned subsidiary Summit Capital (Pvt.) Limited; where he also remained the Chairman of subsidiary's Board.

Mr. Irfan joined the Bank of Khyber as Chief Financial Officer & EVP in February 2021 and was subsequently promoted to SEVP in 2023. He is currently serving as CFO & Managing Director/CEO (Acting)