Ahmad Shahriman Mohd Shariff

Ahmad Shahriman Mohd Shariff is currently the Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad with over two decades of experience in the corporate sector, of which 16 years have been in roles related to Islamic Banking and Finance and has been a major contributor to the development of the Islamic banking and finance industry, with a primary focus on capital markets and treasury solutions. He previously led Wholesale Banking at HSBC Amanah Malaysia Berhad as a Director, and prior to that he served as Head of Islamic Banking at Citibank Berhad. In this role, he was tasked with building the Wholesale Banking and Islamic Treasury businesses worldwide, where he gained strong leadership, technical, legal and risk management expertise from his stint at these cross-border institutions. Played an active role in the development of Malaysia's Islamic banking industry, with a long-standing role in the Treasury committee of the Association of Islamic Banks in Malaysia (AIBIM). In this capacity, he was involved in key industry initiatives such as developing, among others, commodity exchanges for Islamic finance purposes, Islamic structured products, documentation standards for Islamic derivatives as well as Islamic credit support mechanisms. Prior to joining the banking industry through Citibank's Management Associate programme, he was in the oil and gas industry for four years while undergoing a scholarship bond with a Malaysian conglomerate.