Chairman, Varcale Capital Management

Waheed Qaiser

Waheed Qaiser(WQ) is Chairman of Varcale Capital Management, Vice Chairman Swissalpha Management and President of “MaximLLP”. Waheed held executive management positions at Citibank, HSBC, UBS, IIBU, IBB, and QCC.  WQ is Co-Founder of first Islamic bank in UK licensed in 2004. WQ was head of the First Islamic window of a British bank. Waheed is a conventional & Islamic banker, a Management Professional, having led Operations, Retail/Private banking, Investment banking, and various areas of Islamic banking. WQ is founding member of the Bank of England working party on Islamic mortgages that brought the constitutional amendment on double stamp duty for Islamic mortgages in the UK. WQ is a founding member UK technical group at “CISI” for Islamic Finance Qualification (IFQ) London and on corporate finance committee and “corporate finance qualifications assessment Board” at CISI. WQ co-authored a book on Islamic retail Banking & Finance – Global challenges published by Euro-money.