About

I have spent my career inside the question of what environments do to the people who inhabit them. The answer turns out to be: almost everything.

I trained as an antitrust and technology lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb, where I learned how corporate structures constrain and enable behaviour, and how the discipline of precision in language is not a stylistic preference but an intellectual method. I then co-founded Kroo Bank. I spent years building and procuring luxury hotel rooms with my father, the architect Nagib Shariff, one of East Africa's most celebrated hotel and residential designers. And then through Owl + Lark, a luxury mattress and bedding company supplying end-consumers and hotels from London. I then co-founded Cabin Anthology, a hospitality concept integrating wellness and sleep technology. Every project trained me to see the same problem at a different scale.

Three careers that turned out to be the same argument: environments shape bodies, shape minds. Competition economics taught me how systems get built. Hospitality taught me how rooms can feel. Circadian science taught me why both of those things matter more than anyone realises.

That argument became Aryal. Circadian health infrastructure. Passive environmental systems that correct biology without asking anything of the user. Not a wearable. Not an app. The room itself, recalibrated around the biology that was already there.