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Aazar Zafar

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Mujir Muneeruddin

Director, Legal and Organizational Affairs
Abdullah Mohiuddin

Technology and Data Analytics
Naba Siddiqui

Aspire Technology
Zarqaa Shaikh

Finance
Shahbaz Khan

Finance
Maryam Ghouse

Sponsorships and Relationship Management
Sarah Khan

Mentors National
Haris Khan

Mentors Edmonton
Dr. Ruby Alvi

Strategic Operations
Talha Sajun

Data Specialist

Aazar Zafar

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Aazar Zafar is a graduate of the University of Waterloo. He is an FCPA, FCA and also earned the CFA Charter. Professionally, he is currently the Director of Investment Risk for all Private Market Assets at OPTrust, one of Canada’s larger Pension Funds that manages over $24 Billion for its 100,000 members. At OPTrust he directs and manages a team to understand, monitor and measure the Investment Risk characteristics of their 400 plus Private assets such as the Globe and Mail building, various health clinic franchises across North America, and large infrastructure assets such as toll roads and renewable assets in Europe, North America and South America.

Previously, Mr. Zafar worked for AIMCO for six years in their Private Equity and Venture Capital Group as a Portfolio Manage, leading various Direct and Fund investments in Asia, Europe and North America.

In his spare time as a volunteer, he is the Founder and Head Cheerleader of one of Canada’s fastest-growing, minority-based not-for-profit organizations, the Muslim Awards for Excellence (MAX), which has over 1,000 volunteers across Canada and the USA.

In addition, Mr. Zafar he was recruited by the Chair of the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation’s investment committee to help manage its $500 million endowment and serves as a Member of the Investment Committee.

Aazar loves to bike, swim and plays competitive ball hockey, basketball and soccer.

Mujir Muneeruddin

Director, Legal and Organizational Affairs

Mujir Muneeruddin is Executive Vice President (M&A and Strategy) at Facedrive. He is a Partner at Abrahams LLP where he heads the Business Law Group, which includes all transactional, commercial, regulatory, and governmental practices within the firm. Mujir is also MAX’s Director of Legal and Organizational Affairs and was featured in the Top 100 Magazine’s Top 40 under 40 list.

A graduate of Queen’s University , Mujir earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) and a Masters (LL.M.) in Corporate Law & Securities along with a number of academic awards. He also holds a Diploma in Islamic Finance from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (London, UK).

Mujir’s practice specializes in securities law, as he routinely advises mid-market technology companies in the raising of funds and corporate transactions. His experience includes having acted in initial public offerings, private equity & venture capital financings, exchange listings, and public company mergers & acquisitions. Mujir also frequently advises on corporate governance and other securities compliance matters and is also a co-founder/director of various technology startups.

Abdullah Mohiuddin

Technology and Data Analytics

Naba Siddiqui

Aspire Technology

Zarqaa Shaikh

Finance

Shahbaz Khan

Finance

Shahbaz Khan is the Managing Director of MAX Finance & Sponsorship. He is passionate about community service and draws inspiration from the achievements of the MAX family, its sponsors, mentors and scholarship applicants which encourages him to continue contributing to MAX that highlights such achievements and further encourages others within the community to accomplish their dreams.

He is a designated CPA, CA and a technology enthusiast; he leads the Customer Success team at CaseWare International and in his role he helps accounting firms realize new efficiencies by evolving their practice using cloud based software tools. He has experience working with regional, national and Big4 accounting firms in audit and tax.

Maryam Ghouse

Sponsorships and Relationship Management

Sarah Khan

Mentors National

Sarah is the National Managing Director of MAX Mentors Canada, leading the growth of the MAX Mentors pillar across the country. She joined MAX in 2018 when she spearheaded efforts to expand MAX Mentors to Montreal, Quebec. After growing the program in Montreal, Sarah shifted her focus to scaling MAX Mentors to other cities in Canada to continue to empower Muslim professionals across the country.

Professionally, Sarah works as a Manager of Strategic Partnerships at Maple, Canada’s leading virtual healthcare provider. Prior to this, she was in management consulting at PwC.

Haris Khan

Mentors Edmonton

Dr. Ruby Alvi

Strategic Operations

Talha Sajun

Data Specialist