Mr. Mahmud Hossain was appointed as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer(CCAO), effective from March 08, 2010. He started his career in 1990 when he joined the technical team of the erstwhile Hutchison BD Telicom Ltd. He worked for Grameenphone, at his first spell with the Company, as Additional General Manager at Technology Operations during 2000-2001. In his credible long career, he also worked for few other telecom operators before rejoining Grameenphone in August 2009. He obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh university of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He obtained his MBA from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Bangladesh. He also holds Master’s (Telecom) Degree from Concordia University, Canada.

Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D. is the General Partner, CEO and founding member of Fenox Venture Capital, a Silicon Valley-based VC with strong global network and investments.

Anis has invested in over 65 startups in the United States, Japan, and South East Asia. Prominent US startups in the Fenox portfolio include Genius, Lark, Scanadu, Jetlore, Meta, Expect Labs, Afero and ShareThis. He is an investor and a board director of Tech in Asia, the largest tech media blog in Southeast Asia. Anis also sits on the board of directors of Lark, Jetlore, DLE, I AND C-Cruise, Afero, ZUU and Infoteria.

Anis holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University. He has published more than 30 technical papers, and has authored 4 books in 3 Asian languages, providing valuable insights to Asian startups and corporations.

Shameem Ahsan is an ICT entrepreneur and co-founded Akhoni.com Ltd., eGeneration Ltd., Benchmark-eGeneration Ltd. & Element 5 Fashion. He is General Partner of Silicon Valley based Fenox Venture Capital and also serves as the president of BASIS. Mr. Shameem has received “Best Young Entrepreneur of Bangladesh” award from the Prime Minister of Bangladesh at Dhaka Chamber of Commerce Business Award, Top Outstanding Young Person in Bangladesh by JCI and Award for contibution in e-Business sector by Computer Jagat.

Prior to founding SEGNEL, Hideki was the co-founder of COENT Venture Partners. COENT Provided seed and venture-stage funding to brilliant entrepreneurs and companies across various sectors in Asia. Hideki was director of Business Strategy at GREE, inc., one of the largest mobile social gaming companies. At the company he assumed a corporate management position and was involved in strategic investments within the mobile gaming field with a focus on the Japanese and Chinese markets.

Abul Nuruzzaman is Venture Partner at Fenox Venture Capital. Based out of San Jose, California he leads fundraising activities, sources and negotiates deals and invests in Internet, mobile, eCommerce, payment, cloud, big data and emerging technologies. Abul is responsible for Fenox investments in Bangladesh and serving as board of director of Piryo.com and Shohoz.com.

Abul is accomplished corporate partnership, business development, product management and marketing executive with extensive experience in developing and selling technology products with business worth of hundreds of million dollar yearly revenue in large Si Valley corporations such as AMD, Cypress, Tyco Electronics and Lattice.

Abul is fluent in Japanese; hold B.S. degree from Osaka University, Japan and M.S. degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. He graduated high school from Mirzapur Cadet College in Bangladesh. He is recipient of numerous global scholarships and awards such as Japanese Monbusho, Ito Foundation, Rotary International Ambassador of World Peace etc. He is also an invited speaker at international conferences.

Educated and trained in Silicon Valley, Sonia lived in Northern California for 20 years. After completing her MBA, she worked in the Valley for Fortune 100 companies (Sun Microsystems & Oracle), startups & in the financial district. Her expertise include strategic planning & growth, sales execution, financial management, team building and change management.

Sonia is currently the Managing Director for Microsoft Bangladesh, Founder President of TiE Dhaka, Vice President and Co-Founder of Bangladesh Women in Technology (BWIT), Board member of the American International School, Dhaka and Bangladesh on Seven Summits. She has served in the Boards of Bangladesh Employers Federation, Bangladesh Cricket Board (Women's Wing), Abahani Women's Games Development Committee and Women Entrepreneur's Association.

Besides co-founding an IT firm - Syntec, Sonia has served as the Country Director of Dell Bangladesh, Director Business Development for South East Asia, New Emerging Markets in Microsoft and Chief Operating Officer for Aamra Technologies Ltd.
Sonia is a national athlete; she has played for Bangladesh National Volleyball team and Bangladesh National Cricket team.

Before Chaldal - an online shop in Dhaka, Waseem worked at Sigfig, a Silicon Valley financial technology startup. At Sigfig, he led the development of a web-based portfolio management software. He designed algorithms to monitor over $ 100 billion in brokerage assets held by retail investors. He aspires to change the culture in Bangladesh so that people value investment in bold ideas and are more accepting of new technology

He served as the Vice President of Business Development for an international satellite company. He worked in the field of Satellite Communications for over 10 years. He is a graduate of George Washington University.

Farhan Rahman is a Co-Founder & COO of GObd. Farhan has 5+ years of experience in asset management, business development and business consulting with a specialization in managerial capacity building and strategy. He graduated with a degree in Government & Legal Studies from Bowdoin College. Farhan loves Star Wars and dogs.

Ryu began his career at one of Japan’s largest trading firms in the financial affairs department, where he was involved in interest rate, foreign exchange, and equity trading,as well as researching macroeconomic and financial trends.

After being transferred to his firm’s subsidiary in Singapore, Ryu was taken by the region’s incredible economic growth and entrepreneurial dynamism. With the goal of acting as a bridge between Japanese investors and companies and Southeast Asian startups, he joined IMJ Investment partners in May of 2015.

Ryu holds a B.S. in Political Science from the Law Department at Keio University and is a certified member of The Securities Analysts Association of Japan.

Zarif Munir joined The Boston Consulting Group in 1997. He is a core member of the Health Care and Industrial Goods practices. Zarif’s client engagements have been in Southeast Asia, North Africa, Europe, and Latin America and have included a turnaround strategy for the largest oil-and-gas fabricator in Malaysia, a three-year transformation of one of the largest agrocommodity companies in Asia.

Masa Isono has been actively involved in venture investment, development and corporate partnering for the U.S., Japanese and Asian companies for more than 20 years.

At DEFTA, he is in charge of not only VC investment management, but also value-creating services for its portfolio companies. Combining skills of international business development, joint ventures management, and knowledge of strategic planning and corporate finance, he provides entrepreneurs and corporations with experience, insight and the guidance needed to build successful and sustainable businesses.

Masa has B.A. from Waseda University, and M.B.A. and M.A. in Economics from Boston University. He is a CFA charterholder, CPA (inactive) and a Chartered Member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan.

A Consumer Finance and Payments specialist with 17 years of broad functional experience in P&L Management, Business Development, Business Strategy, Financial Planning and Analysis, and Marketing Strategy Consulting. He has worked with Capital One, HSBC and Citi Bank in North America. He is currently works at MasterCard in Singapore as Vice President with regional responsibilities across Asia Pacific. He holds a MBA degree from Northwestern University- Kellog School of Management.

Fahim Mashroor has over one decade of experience in the IT industry of Bangladesh. During this time, apart from successfully running his own business (as founder and CEO of Bdjobs.com), he has been extensively involved in different industry development activities.

One of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the country, Fahim Mashroor founded Bdjobs.com (the online employment exchange in Bangladesh) in 2000 right after completing his education from University of Dhaka. Bdjobs.com is currently one of the most successful internet ventures in the country. It is also one of the top five job sites in South Asia. In 2008, Fahim Mashroor was awarded “Best Innovative Entrepreneur” by DCCI.

In 2012 he has been elected at President of BASIS (Bangladesh Association of Software & Information Services), the national trade body representing software and IT service industry of Bangladesh. He also served BASIS as the Senior Vice President (for 2010-12). He also served BASIS as EC member for 4 consecutive years (2004-2008). Fahim Mashroor was the convener for BASIS SoftExpo 2011 and SoftExpo 2007. He represented IT industry as a member of working committee that drafted ICT Policy 2009.

Fahim Mashroor has also been involved in a number of social development activities in voluntary capacity.He is one of the trustee and Governing Body Member of D.Net (www.dnet-bangladesh.org), a non-profit development organization working in the fields of ICT literacy and promotion of ICT for social development.

Sajid Rahman loves to build companies as an investor, mentor and operator. He is CEO of Telenor Health – building the global health business of Telenor. He is at the board of a number of companies in Asia and Europe. The companies cover financial services, technology and energy space. He is advisor to many startups and an active angel investor, investing along side the top VCs and Angels from Silicon Valley. He is also director of Founder Institute.

Fazal focuses on partnering with major advertisers & agencies in South Asia to develop digital solutions that build their businesses and brands.

Dr. Shahdat Khan founded SureCash in 2010 that operates the leading payment platform for mobile phone users in Bangladesh. Currently SureCash is working with 6 local banks, 6 microfinance institutes, 250 payment partners and more than 36,000 retail agents to provide banking and payment services to more than a million end customers. Shahadat Khan graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, the top engineering school in Bangladesh and later on received his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from University of Victoria, Canada. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and panels, holds 16 patents, and has published many articles in journals and technical magazines. He has traveled more than 30 countries, and is a hobbyist photographer.

He is a designer, strategist, innovation practitioner and entrepreneur. His work is based on using innovation, digital technology and a user centered approach to create valuable design solutions. He has created a professional practice based in New Delhi that is focused on making design more ubiquitous in the country through offering services, collaborating on product creation and fostering a design ecosystem.

An employee turned into an entrepreneur Mr. Shawkat Hossain is the founding Managing Director of a venture capital fund manager named BD Venture limited. The company established in 2012 when venture capital rule was not in existence in the country. Mr. Hossain played pivotal role in start-up ecosystem development in the country by participating in different start up and incubation events. He was instrumental at the formation stage of few business enterprises under the flagship of BRAC including setting up BRAC Afghanistan Bank, a Bangladeshi owned bank at a foreign soil.

Sarim looks after the strategic product partnership at Facebook. He has cross-functional experience in leading solution teams for mobile, social & cloud platforms. He believes in transformation through technology and doing business through partnerships with clients, agencies, SI’s & ISVs. Previously we worked at Hootsuite, and Blackberry.

Faisal is quite new in the technology industry of Bangladesh. He is one of the business strategy consultants in Managing Director Division of Grameenphone responsible for corporate strategy and new business development. Prior to joining Grameenphone, Faisal gained both local and international market experience from a few of worlds renowned FMCG and financial services provider like Philip Morris and Standard Chartered. Faisal is also an MSc in Strategic Finance- Mergers & Acquisition from Derby Business School, United Kingdom. He is passionate about management consultancy and entrepreneurial initiatives revolving around digital and investment arena. At the moment, Faisal is heading the Grameenphone Accelerator initiative.

Mr. Maheen Matin is a co-Founder of e-Education five continents which is actively working in 10 countries including Bangladesh. He is also CEO and Founder of Bacbon Ltd and BacBon-Foundation. He graduated from the University of Dhaka at Department of Development Studies. Recently, he has successfully completed his two years masters on ICT-Education from Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. Now he is doctoral candidate at Hitotsubashi University at Business School. His e-Education Innovation and himself already awarded by many international organizations such as "Dell Social Innovation Award-2012", "CITIZEN of the Year award", Japan 2011, "e-Learning Award" from Hitotsubashi University-2013, TAKEDA Young Entrepreneurship Award from University of Tokyo and Lenovo Innovation Award-2013.

Utsav Agarwal is a launcher at Uber, and has been with them for little under 24 months. At Uber, he looks after expanding their footprint into new markets, and has been instrumental in launching a dozen markets in India.

Before Uber, he founded a music sharing app called nwplyng, worked with William Morris Endeavor and marketed artists at FanManager and EMI Music.

Najm’s passion for web design and branding has given him the opportunity to work with clients globally for the past 10 years. His extensive work as the country head of a US company in Experience Travel now defined his expertise in business development, operations, product development, marketing & branding for emerging markets.

Traveling to 15 countries in 3 years to meet partners, customers and attend corporate conferences gave him a lot of experience in communications with diverse cultures, manage global projects and get really good at remote troubleshooting.

These days he serves as the Founder & CEO of Ennovision Ltd, a User Experience design company. His vision is to build a company that will bring together the most useful technology with design to solve business problems in digital space. He believes any business deserves to grow through the most meaningful experiences & interactions it can have with their customers.

Siddiq Abu Bakkar is a tech entrepreneur who loves to build technology-based startup. He is founder & CEO of Kandy, an intelligent personalization mobile advertising application that puts delightful content on users’ lock screens, and time-saving tools, giving a useful lock screen experience. Kandy has been selected as one of the top five startups in the GP Accelerator program.

Born in London and currently based in Dhaka, Ahad comes from a long line of businessmen. He loves exciting projects and has a flair for entrepreneurialism. He has been involved a variety of projects including film production, digital media, sports teams, telecom and more.

Adnan Imtiaz Halim is a Transformational Leader, Entrepreneur who aims to add value to the society through his work. After graduation he started his carrier at telecom industry and has been well recognized for his superior Leadership & Determinations. He worked for well recognized companies such as Grameenphone, Nokia Technology, LM Ericsson Bangladesh, Augere Wireless Broadband Bangladesh Ltd. During his 11 years career, he worked in Technical, Sales, Business Development segments. He was also a key resource on Warid (Airtel) and Qubee Launch. He co-founded “Sheba”, the first service platform in Bangladesh which had a successful beta launch at 22nd of January 2016.

Having worked for four years in strategy, planning & analysis, finance and treasury in the corporate and investment banking wing at one of the world’s largest financial institutions, Citibank N.A., Bijon plays a central role in the formation of LightCastle Partners. He started his career with Citi N.A. as a management associate (MA) and has since then worked in a variety of episodic deals including Bangladesh’s first Interest Rate Swap, Equity Convertible Bonds, Largest IPO, Microfinance Securitization and Block Equity Trades.

After graduating from the MA program, Bijon’s chief responsibility revolved around heading the strategy planning and analysis unit. Working with regional teams across Singapore, Hong Kong, and India, he played a major role in aligning Bangladesh as an important piece in Citi’s growth strategy in Asia. Due to outstanding performance, Bijon had received the CEO Excellence Awards for two years in a row in the organization.

Bijon holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka. Presently he is pursuing his Executive MBA from the same institute. He spends his leisure time watching anime movies.

Hi, I am Sujan, Founder & CEO at Share Technologies Limited.We are a seed-stage startup looking to disrupt the way people commute.Our vision is to change how people commute in Bangladesh.

I am geek in nature who is in love with technology, design and combining them together to solve fundamental human problems. I started my career as a Strategy Planner in business development and operations in Ranks Information Technology and Telecommunication for two years. There onward I jumped on to the BPO train where I worked as a Project Manager for three years at GraphicPeople | SoftwarePeople with global brands like Dell and Microsoft.

I have a keen Interest in Innovation & Entrepreneurship and would like to evangelise the art of venture building to interested individuals in the same field.

A wise man once said ‘People With Passion Can Change The World For The Better’ and I am only following the wisdom by starting to do so with my team in our country.

I am a young student of 18 years old, who wants to change the way Bangladesh learns by giving the freedom to learn everyone what they really love through the power of Online Education. I started my journey of spreading Online Education in Bangladesh from 2013 with iversity.org and next in 2014 I became a successful udemy Instructor. After that I founded REPTO - Education Center and launched in June 2015.

Mustafiz is an angel investor, startup community organiser and marketer with over 17 years of experience of heading teams across diverse industries in Asia. He has started his career as an entrepreneur and later managed brand like HSBC in several countries. He co founded coolest coworking space in Dhaka and working towards launching his own startup, a business news site called Startup Dhaka. He is passionate about technology and studies film in his spare time.

Fayaz is a serial entrepreneur, investor, mentor and a startup and community advocate from Bangladesh and the current CEO of Fortuna, an innovative group of companies invested across various industries. Fayaz was one of the youngest Vice-Chairman of the Bangladesh Finished Leather, Leather Goods Manufactures and Exporters Association.

Fayaz is also passionate about community building. He co-founded BDtech, which was a community for startup enthusiasts and is leading the efforts to form an angel investor group. He was the lead organizer of Startupbashbd as well. Fayaz in the past has organized Facebook Developer Garage & Ruby Tech event. Fayaz as an investor also invested in several startups to encourage young entrepreneurs to solve the local problems and find solutions including Magnito Digital, Ligthcastle Partners and Startup Dhaka. He also invested in a co-working space called the Wave.

Fayaz started his first venture at the age of 13 starting in retail and later went on to found Fortuna Fried Chicken while he was in High School. Fayaz was also a Director of Union Capital Leasing Ltd, and also helps set strategy with Peoples Life Insurance Company and Popular Life Insurance Company ltd. Fayaz is also an integral member & co-founder of Infrablue technology which as was announced as one of the winners of the Facebook Fund for their technology skills back in 2008, the only company from Bangladesh. Fayaz completed his undergraduate degree at Babson College in Entrepreneurship in ‘03 and completed his masters in International Development and Social Change at Clark University in Massachusetts, USA in ‘09. He is also a research fellow at Bangladesh Enterprise Institute and a fellow at Jaago Foundation.

Samad Miraly is a Canadian-Bangladeshi investor. An Executive Director at Olympic Industries Limited, a publicly listed consumer goods manufacturing company. He has also invested in Magnito Digital Limited – Bangladesh’s first full service digital marketing agency; Monasa Learning Limited – Dhaka’s premier after-school education centre; and LiveSafe, a US-based security app company. His latest investment is in Startup Dhaka, a media site that covers innovative business in Bangladesh.

Out side of startups, he is a director at Universal Financial Solutions Limited, a licensed asset management company. Samad contributes some time community-building for entrepreneurship and angel investing in Bangladesh. His main interests lie in working toward upliftment through entrepreneurship, via impact investing and disruptive technologies.