Shabir is the Chairman of DCD Group. His background is in Finance and Banking, Commercial Real Estate and Venture Capital.

Shabir is the Deputy Chairman of Al Baraka Bank South Africa and a Founder-Director of BankIslami (PAK). Over the pas decade, he was a founder-director of The Islamic Bank of Britain plc and ex Chairman of European Islamic Investment Bank plc. He has also served on the Government’s Ethnic Minority Task Force, Asia Task Force and the Islamic Finance Task Force.

On the not-for-profit side, Shabir is the Chairman of the HRH Charity MOSAIC, Chair of Governors of The Westminster Academy, Champion of Three Faiths Forum and ex chair for the YPO-LBS London Business School ‘Growing Your Business’ Programme. He has acted as an Advisor to Baroness Scotland as Trade envoy to South Africa and is a Champion for the Youth EDV Council, End Domestic Violence Campaign. He is also a regular contributor and sponsor of the Blueprint for Better Business initiative founded by Cardinal Vincent Nichols and a sponsor of the Woolf Institute, Cambridge.

Shabir was awarded a CBE in recognition of his services to both business and education in 2013, as well as for his philanthropic support of charitable causes. In 2014 he received the Excellence in Enterprise award, presented by The Prime Minister at the Muslim News Awards.