Arif Shah

Chief Executive Officer, UAE

Arif Shah is chief executive officer for the UAE at Flow. Based in Dubai, he is responsible for establishing the company's operations in the country and for overseeing its real estate investments and asset management strategy across the Middle East. He was previously a managing director at SHVO, a New York based real estate investment and development firm, where he led day-to-day operations across a national portfolio of ultra-luxury properties valued at over eight billion dollars. Earlier he was a vice president at WeWork, leading strategic real estate initiatives during the company's hyper-growth phase, and a director at Brunswick Group across its New York, London and Singapore offices. He began his career as a parliamentary adviser in Westminster and is a graduate of Durham University and Dalhousie University.