Taskeen Hamidullah-Bahl is the interim co-CEO of Polaris. She brings over two decades of experience in the financial services industry, holding senior leadership roles at JPMorgan Chase, HSBC and Barclays across wholesale and retail banking. During this time, she managed large scale technology, operations, and data teams, and held several leadership roles in corporate strategy and transformation. She has deep subject matter expertise in managing financial crime risk, specifically, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, sanctions, and fraud. For the last decade, Taskeen has been working with various global non-profits in the anti-human trafficking space. Taskeen graduated from The Wharton School, at the University of Pennsylvania with an MBA in Finance. She concurrently completed an MA in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at
Johns Hopkins University.
Taskeen is originally from Bangladesh and lived in Asia, Europe, and Africa before moving to Canada and, eventually, settling down in the United States. She currently lives in New York with her husband and three children.