Shariah-compliant Offa hires senior management
By Rebekah Commane 21
Shariah-compliant bridging provider Offa has strengthened it’s senior management team with two appointments.
Sultan Choudhury OBE joins as the Birmingham and London based firm’s first chairman
Sultan Choudhury
and Andy Blenkinsop joins as chairman of Offa’s Risk Committee.
Choudhury has 26 years of experience in professional and financial services (Deloitte, Charles Schwab, Barclays, and Al Rayan Bank) and played an instrumental role as part of the founding management team that obtained Western Europe’s first authorised Islamic banking licence.
Bilal Ahmed
Blenkinsop has had a 40 year career in real estate finance including 27 years with Barclays and HBOS and spent ten years as a partner of Pluto Finance which built a £1.5bn loan book comprising development and bridge loans.