An attorney-at-law with more than 20 years of local, regional and international corporate legal experience, Aliyah leads the EQ team as its managing director. Having completed her law degree at the University of the West Indies, Aliyah began her career as a litigation attorney at M. Hamel-Smith & Co., and later obtained her MBA at Oxford-Brookes University, England. She then spent close to a decade of her career at RBC, where she was promoted to head up its Trust company and then was made responsible for the Bank’s regional financial planning arm.

Seeking a new challenge, Aliyah moved to become vice president of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Shared Services Development at the Trinidad and Tobago International Financial Centre (TTIFC), where she worked to make the outsourcing of finance and accounting functions attractive to foreign investors. While there, she brokered and secured the first international company to set up local operations under the TTIFC’s diversification programme—a company that is still thriving and which has created a significant number of jobs to date.

Aliyah then became the CEO of two affiliated insurance brokerage and employee benefits firms, where she offered clients customised benefits and insurance packages designed to increase employee wellness in the areas of health, investments and retirement planning.

She is now the Managing Director at ExeQtrust Limited on a mission to simplify the daunting tasks of Financial Planning and Estate Administration by:

• Optimising how persons’ assets work for them during their lifetime, so
• They can leave a legacy behind.