Muhseen appointed to Amana Takaful Life Board

Sharhan Muhseen

Sharhan Muhseen has been appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Amana Takaful Life Plc Board.

Muhseen is a senior investment banker with extensive experience in areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and capital markets. He has served in a senior capacity working with company boards and senior leadership teams of financial institutions across Asia to help drive their strategic agenda and roadmap.

He previously worked in best-in-class global investment banks, Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan in leading regional coverage roles. His most immediate previous role was as Managing Director, Head of Asia Insurance, Head of South East Asia Financial Institutions Group, and Country Manager Sri Lanka at Credit Suisse based in Singapore. In his investment banking career spanning over 20 years, Muhseen has completed landmark mergers and capital raising transaction in excess of $ 100 billion.

The Asia F G sector team at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse has won the ‘FlG Asia House of the Year’ award and ‘Best Sri Lanka Investment Bank’ from the Asset magazine and Finance Asia Magazine for multiple years under his leadership. 

He is also credited with some leading research reports including reports on Banking sector efficiency, currency depreciation and budget deficit in his role as Head of Sri Lanka Banking sector research coverage and lead Economist at Jardine Flemming. 

Muhseen has also worked at Standard Chartered Bank in the corporate banking division where he started out as Management Trainee and at Rodman and Renshaw Stock and Commodities broker based in Chicago.

Muhseen has experiences at the policy level working as a Team Leader at the National Council for Economic Development (NCED) under the Ministry of Finance as well as a Director at the TAFREN Presidential Task Force for Rebuilding the economy after the 2004 Tsunami. 

Muhseen holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Colombo, a Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons) from Western Michigan University and has completed the Corporate Finance training with JPMorgan in New York.

Currently he serves as the Chairman of Platinum Advisors (Singapore) Ltd. and Independent Director, Commercial Bank of Sri Lanka and Director, H2O One Ltd.