Sharifah joined UEM Edgenta in July 2021 to provide strategic steer in the company’s business development initiatives and exploration of new markets. In this role, she is also tasked to develop UEM Edgenta’s ESG Blueprint.

Prior to UEM Edgenta, Sharifah provided investor relation services for corporate and institutional clients in the global real estate markets through Bespoke Globiz, an Asia based consulting and advisory boutique firm, which she founded. In this capacity, she showcased more than USD5 billion worth of commercial, industrial and residential real estate assets to investors in South East Asia. Before Bespoke Globiz, Sharifah was the Head of South East Asia Business Development for Gatehouse Bank Kuala Lumpur Representative Office, which was part of a London based real estate investment bank.

Sharifah trained as an investment banker and has worked at investment banks in Malaysia and the Middle East specialising in the areas of debt capital markets and Islamic finance. During her time at Maybank Investment Bank between 2003 and 2006, she advised the Government of Malaysia in structuring the country’s landmark Residential Mortgage Backed Securitisation (RMBS) transaction. Sharifah also successfully led a team of global advisors in executing the Kingdom of Bahrain’s inaugural RMBS transaction in 2008. In her capacity as a debt market specialist, Sharifah was also appointed as an External Financial Markets and Institutions Specialist by the Asian Development Bank in 2017 for a regional infrastructure project in Guangxi China, where she was tasked with designing a suitable financing modality for SMEs in Guangxi and the northern border provinces of Vietnam.

Sharifah is passionate about coaching and nurturing talent. She mentors professionals either on a structured basis or as part of her engagements. She also reskills both men or women who are on career breaks to enable them to return to the workspace or become entrepreneurs. Sharifah was awarded a Chevening Scholarship by the British Government in 2010 to pursue a Master in Business Administration degree at Cambridge Judge Business School. She graduated from Cambridge with an MBA in 2011. She also graduated from the International Islamic University, Malaysia in 1998 with a Bachelor of Accounting (Hons) degree. Sharifah is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant. Sharifah has served as the Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer of the Chevening Alumni of Malaysia. She is also a member of the Oxford and Cambridge Society of Malaysia. In her free time Sharifah enjoys cooking, reading and travelling