PETALING JAYA: Former executive director of investments at Khazanah Nasional Bhd, Mohd Shahazwan Mohd Harris,  has joined startup Stashaway, an investment advisory platform or more famously referred to as a robo-advisor.

Stashaway said on Thursday Shahazwan joined the company’s advisory committee, alongside with Morgan Stanley Singapore former CEO Sim Hwee Hoon and Dr Pranay Gupta, former head of multi-asset strategies at Temasek’s Fullerton Fund Management.

Shahazwan has more than 20 years of experience in investments, asset and portfolio management, restructuring, corporate strategy and development. 

He is currently a senior adviser to Bain & Co., and was previously a corporate adviser to Temasek International (Singapore), focusing on sustainability and impact investing. 

He is also a board member of UMW Holdings Bhd and UEM Edgenta Bhd .

He was with Khazanah for 11 years, and for his last four years there, held the role of executive director, investments, leading and covering a variety of sectors, including aviation, infrastructure, sustainable development, healthcare, and technology. 

He holds a Sloan Fellows MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MSc (Advanced Mech Eng) from Imperial College, London, and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from University of Warwick, UK. 

Stashaway is a Singapore-based robo-advisor startup. In November, the company received a green light to offer its service in Malaysia with after gaining capital markets services licence from the Securities Commission (SC).

One of the co-founders of Stashaway is Michele Ferrario, who was formerly the group chief executive officer of Zalora, South-East Asia’s fashion e-commerce platform. 

Prior to his four years stint with Zalora, Ferrario founded the Italian and Pakistani operations of Rocket Internet.