From A Clothing Business In Pakistan To A Wall Street Firm -- Lessons From A Serial Female Entrepreneur

Shama Zehra is founder and CEO of newly-launched Aligned Independent Advisors, a boutique independent advisory firm on Wall Street. It’s still a male-dominated area of finance, just 13% of brokers and advisors are female but Zehra’s unlikely to be unfazed. As a glance at her career path proves - engineer, business-owner, pilot and banker –resisting convention comes pretty naturally.