Heeral Shah

Banker | SME Business Banking | HSBC

London Area, United Kingdom

About

Banking Professional with significant business development, Financials Institutions, Large Corporate and Corporate Finance experience. Heeral is passionate about Diversity and Inclusion, particularly for Ethnically diverse colleagues, women’s empowerment and the ability to make a difference. She is passionate about multicultural and gender diversity in financial services and particularly about creating an environment where colleagues feel they can bring their whole selves to work. She founded and the Asian Professionals Forum at Barclays which is part of Embrace, the multicultural diversity network. She chairs the Corporate Bank Embrace network and influences senior leaders at Barclays around multicultural diversity, leads programmes including mentoring to provide career pathway support for colleagues across Barclays and provides access to senior leaders across the Bank’s businesses through spotlight career sessions. Heeral is also a member of the Race at Work task force.

Experience

  • SME Business Banking | Regional Director at HSBC
    Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

  • Barclays (27 yrs)
    • Head of UK Debt Structuring, Global Lending Group
      Oct 2020 - Dec 2025 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    • Head of Alternative Finance
      Nov 2016 - Oct 2020 · 4 yrs

      Leading client relationships for this exciting, high growth sector.

    • Relationship Director
      Sep 2008 - Oct 2020 · 12 yrs 2 mos