Sherazam Mazari, CEO, Standard Chartered Africa

Sherazam Mazari (51) was appointed Standard Chartered's Regional Chief Executive for the African region in August 2004.  He is based at the Bank's Corporate Office in London.

Sherazam began his banking career in 1979 at Citibank in Pakistan, where he joined the Wholesale Bank as a Management Associate.  By 1988, Sherazam had moved into the role of country operations officer with responsibility for Trade, Cash, and Custody Business as well as operations, technology, human resources and finance.  In 1990, he went on to head the Retail Banking Business in the country before moving to Turkey as General Manager Consumer Bank in 1995-1998.

Sherazam joined Standard Chartered Bank in February 1999 as Regional Head Consumer Bank for Middle East South Asian Region (MESA), based in Dubai.  While in this role, he refreshed the Bank's Regional Consumer Bank strategy and developed the Consumer Bank integration plans for the Grindlays Bank acquisition.  He later moved to Singapore as Group Regional Head Consumer Bank for China, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Brunei - a position he held until his current post.

Sherazam holds a Business Management degree.  He is married with 3 daughters.  Outside of the work arena, Sherazam enjoys reading, history, and riding.  He was once a very keen rifle marksman.