Sharizal was appointed as Senior Vice President for Business Development in March 2022. He has an eclectic entrepreneurial and senior corporate experience, and currently also serves in the Boards of a social enterprise tech-startup and as well as deep-tech marine life-sciences venture with a leading Australian university. His other experiences include involvement in Fintech, Engineering, Construction and F&B. Prior to joining NanoMalaysia, he had joint-ventured with a Fortune 500 company to develop a new integrated high-value aquaculture species investment program and was also the Senior Manager for Strategic Communications for wholly-owned Khazanah agri-tech subsidiary Blue Archipelago Berhad. He obtained his Bachelor of Electronics and Control Engineering from University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. His personal interests are in Food & Water Security and Policy Advocacy where he has helped co-drafted the NKEA Agriculture Policy in 2010 and Shared Prosperity Vision 2030 in 2019.