About ShariaPortfolio

Naushad Virji is the CEO of SP Funds Management and Chairman of the ShariaPortfolio group of companies (www.sp-wealth.com). ShariaPortfolio is a leader in offering comprehensive Sharia-compliant investment solutions around the world. Naushad founded ShariaPortfolio in the USA in 2003, led the expansion into Canada in 2017 and started working with global clients in 2020. He is also one of the portfolio managers for the SP Funds line of Sharia-compliant exchange traded funds (ETFs).

Naushad is a frequent speaker and contributor to various news media around the world on the topic of Sharia-compliant investment management. In 2019, Naushad was honored with the distinction of being one of the 500 most prominent and influential Muslims in the world by Islamica 500.

Prior to launching ShariaPortfolio, Naushad managed a hedge fund. He has also been the manager of several real estate partnerships. From the beginning, it’s been Naushad’s focus to offer professionally managed investment solutions to help the Muslim community achieve their financial goals without compromising their personal values.

Naushad received his degree from the University of Florida and then passed the exam to become a licensed investment advisor representative so he could start his own firm. Naushad was born in Italy but has lived in Florida since 1975.

Farhat Shirazi serves as the Client Service Manager at ShariaPortfolio. Having spent a few years as a top performing client service associate herself, Farhat is well-informed regarding the detailed processes of the department. She also cares deeply about ShariaPorfolio’s clients and strives to ensure their service requests are taken care of in a timely and professional manner. Even as an associate, Farhat was instrumental in training new team members and providing support to colleagues, effectively helping to run an efficient Client Service department. When she is not sharing her insight and expertise at ShariaPortfolio, Farhat likes to travel and spend time with her family.

Rezwana holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Economics and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from UC Berkeley. Rezwana’s previous work experiences extended across nonprofit sectors and academia where she contributed to research, policy analysis, and program evaluation capacities. In addition, she taught undergraduate and high school level economics courses for several years.

While investment advising wasn’t Rezwana’s primary calling, it fast evolved into one of her passions ever since she started to self-educate and took an active role in trying to achieve her own family’s goal of financial security. Rezwana hopes to bring her unique perspective and life experiences to help clients navigate their critical financial decisions with clarity and confidence.

Rezwana was born in Bangladesh and has lived in the United States since 2004. She currently resides in sunny California with her husband and a young daughter. In her spare time, Rezwana enjoys traveling to new places, mastering new DIY crafts, and spending time with family and friends.

Carlos Perez is an award winning and nationally recognized Technology Professional with years of IT Infrastructure at the Microsoft Corporation. Principal of Perez Technology Group, Perez is a Microsoft Certified & Dell Certified Professional who specializes on the development of Technology solutions that solve business needs for small and medium size businesses. He has been responsible for the migration, deployment and management of Cloud based solutions across vertical markets including  Fortune 100 companies. He has specialized experience in the Finance, Insurance, Marketing, Legal and Health Care industries & delivered IT projects support to Media Agencies & Non-Profit Organizations.

Perez is also a published author and a featured Tech expert on the Hartford Business Journal & the Orlando Business Journal. He has been featured on the Technology publication CRN, The Channel Company, Spectrum News in Florida, WAPA America, Telemundo NBC Universal & New York 1 for his IT expertise. He was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year award by the Connecticut Minority Supplier Development Council & the Global Entrepreneur of the Year award by The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). He previously served as a Manager for Microsoft FastTrack Center, a customer success service designed to help customers realize business value with the Microsoft Azure Cloud and Office 365.  Perez is a member of the Microsoft Partner Network & studied Business IT at the University of Connecticut.

Aliasgher is an undergraduate that will be receiving his degree in Individualized Studies from Metropolitan State University with a focus area in Psychological and Managerial Sciences. He has work experience in both corporate environments at Wells Fargo Home Mortgages as well as within the startup environment whereby he has analyzed company goal areas and created sequential workflows to achieve those objectives.

His primary goal has always been to determine how he can best be of assistance to others and investment advising within this niche environment has fast become a passion that fell into his lap that enables him to do just that. This environment has enabled him to speak to many different types of people and identify what their needs are and then co-creating a plan of action on how to achieve their desired outcomes. His strengths in listening and understanding other’s motivations, alongside his analytical skills, serve him as assets that mix the best of both worlds in terms of human inclinations and business ventures.

Aliasgher was born in Kenya but has lived in Minnesota since 2003. Within his free time, he loves to read any and all books, take random online courses, and spend time with his family and friends

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Mamoon Khalid is an Honors Academic Excellence Scholarship undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Dallas, pursuing a B.S. in Finance. He has a passion for equity markets and has experience day and swing trading on the U.S. stock market for four years through the interactive brokers mosaic platform. After completing his degree, he hopes to work in the sharia-compliant investment analytics side of finance.

He has also worked at R.A. Consultants, a pharmaceutical consultancy firm that prepares documents for approval for drugs per DRAP regulations. Additionally, he founded the Feed the Homeless in Downtown Dallas program, which has distributed nearly 20,000 meals. Mamoon hopes that his experience offers new insight into halal and ethical investments at ShariaPortfolio.

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Siraj is an undergraduate student working toward an MBA with a scholarship at Rollins College. Though having spent a few years in Vancouver, Canada, he has spent most of his life living in Orlando, Florida. Siraj also volunteers as a member of his mosque’s outreach team, coordinating events and writing articles.

Having extensive experience with a myriad of coffee machines, Siraj is equipped with all the skills necessary to produce a colleague’s morning latte in a timely manner. All jokes aside, as he works on the organizational aspects of the company, Siraj is an attentive and diligent worker dedicated to growing as an asset in his role.

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Shaykh Umer Khan graduated with the highest marks in his class in his formal Shahādah al-‘Ālimiyyah degree (License in Islamic Scholarship, i.e. ʻālim program) from Al-Salam Institute, authorized by Dar al-ʻUlūm Nadwat al-ʻUlamā’, Lucknow, India. He also completed a traditional Dars-e-Niẓāmī dawrah of the six canonical books of ḥadīth. Shaykh Umer completed his iftā’ (License to Give Islāmic Legal Verdicts) from Darulifta Birmingham, granting him the traditional title of ‘mufti’. He has a Master’s in Finance (from Wharton, UPenn) and another Master’s in Islamic Finance and he holds several professional certifications and qualifications in Islamic Finance.

Shaykh Umer teaches the Islamic sciences at seminaries (Institute of Knowledge, Al-Salam Institute, and Critical Loyalty), researches and writes fatwās (legal verdicts) for various institutions, and serves as a sharīʻah advisor to a number of companies.

Shaykh Umer will be working to help ShariaPortfolio with developing a more concrete framework for Sharia screening, reviewing our operations and portfolios to have better alignment with AAOIFI guidelines. InshaAllah we hope this helps increase confidence with our clients in regard to Sharia compliance.

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Fatema Alidina graduated the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2010 with Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Communication, and Sociology. She worked at Omnicom Media Group as a Strategist before joining ShariaPortfolio, USA in 2014 where she worked as a Marketing Associate and Client Services Manager. Fatema rejoined SP Funds as the Executive Assistant to Naushad Virji in 2019. With communication, professionalism and faith at the heart of her career, Fatema considers herself a chameleon and has the ability to seamlessly contribute to many different aspects of SP Funds’ sprawling brand. In her spare time, Fatema enjoys yoga, traveling, and spending time with her three children.