Retirement technology provider Dunstan Thomas has promoted its chief operating officer Ihab El-Saie to chief executive as long-standing CEO Chris Read moves to a senior position at parent company Curtis Banks.
Dunstan Thomas founder Read had been CEO at the firm for 36 years and now moves to become chief growth officer at Curtis Banks Group. Curtis Banks bought Dunstan Thomas in June 2020. Before taking on the COO role at Dunstan Thomas, El-Saie was managing director of the fintech portal software provider Digital Keystone which was itself acquired by Dunstan Thomas back in early 2016. He previously led another tech business called SDS Applications which was acquired by BancTec in 2005. Read said: "Ihab has done a great job creating and driving through a new operating model which ensured th...
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