HSBC Bank Oman S.A.O.G. appointed Saleh Mohamed Al Zakwani as an interim independent director on the HBON Board of Directors until the upcoming Annual General Meeting, subject to Regulatory approval. Saleh Al Zakwani is the Chairman and founder of Apex Press and Publishing established in 1980. He began his career as the Oman representative of a British publishing house.

He has served on the board of several companies including as the Chairman of Alliance Housing Bank and a Director of Gulf Hotels Co SAOG (under which the Crowne Plaza Muscat operates). In 2015 he was appointed as a member of the State Council of Oman and is a founding member of the Oman British Friendship Association, which he has chaired since May 2022.