Mr. Shahnawaz holds an undergraduate degree in commerce and has an MBA degree, both from the Karachi University. He began his career at Citibank in 1993 and held various executive roles particularly in retail banking and finance across different geographies until 2015 including a CFO position for six years in Singapore and Thailand. He then served as the principal consultant at ACE Transformation from 2015 to 2019. With his deep expertise in the retail banking sector, he joined Commercial Bank Financial Services (CBFS) in 2019, and assumed the role of General Manager until 2022 prior to assuming his current role as Executive General Manager of Retail Banking at Commercial Bank of Qatar since March 2022. Mr. Shahnawaz holds position of Chairman of Commercial Bank Financial Services, a fully owned subsidiary of Commercial Bank of Qatar since January 2024. Mr. Shahnawaz was appointed as a Board Member of Alternatif Bank in August 2024.