Junaid Wahedna

Junaid Wahedna is the founder and now Chairman (recently handing over to a new CEO) of Wahed, an Islamic digital financial investment founded with the intention of solving “the Riba problem” – a problem every Muslim is painstakingly familiar with. How do we live in a world without partaking in riba, when our bank accounts, mortgages, pensions, and insurance providers are all built on a foundation of interest? He raised $82m to build Whaed, that’s profitable in the three main countries Wahed operates in: the US, the UK, and Malaysia, contributing almost equally to Wahed’s approximate $1 billion in AUM.