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| Aug 14, 2018 | How Light Of Hope Is Shaping The Future Of Education In Bangladesh, One Kid At A Time: An Interview With Waliullah Bhuiyan, CEO, Light Of Hope | Light Of Hope Founder, and CEO, Waliullah Bhuiyan, on his journey to the world of entrepreneurship, how his passion for literature, art, and culture shaped his outlook towards life and the world, talks about Light Of Hope’s journey from ide... |
| Aug 13, 2018 | How Truck Lagbe Is Taking On An Age-old Transportation Industry: An Interview With Anayet Rashid, Founder and CEO, Truck Lagbe | Truck Lagbe Founder and CEO Anayet Rashid on the early days of Truck Lagbe, how it has evolved and grown from a mere idea to a team of over 25 people and 150 agents in a span of a year, how Truck Lagbe is using technology to change an age-o... |
| Jul 22, 2018 | The Ambition Of Praava Health, Entrepreneurship, and Life: An Interview With Sylvana Quader Sinha, Founder, MD and CEO, Praava Health | Praava Health Founder, Managing Director, and CEO Sylvana Quader Sinha walks us through her childhood and early life in the US and how her upbringing at a cultural crossroads, exposure to Bangladesh and its culture early in life, shaped her... |
| Jun 10, 2018 | The Story Behind Pathao’s Explosive Growth With Hussain M Elius, Founder and CEO, Pathao | Pathao Founder and CEO Hussain M Elius on the early days of Pathao, how it has evolved and grown from a small team of 30 people to a team of over 500 people in a span of a few years, the hard work and intricacies of scaling a business, Path... |
| Jun 6, 2018 | The State and Future Of Venture Capital In Bangladesh With Shawkat Hossain, Managing Director, BD Venture Limited | BD Venture Limited founding Managing Director Shawkat Hossain on the real reasons behind a lack of VC investments in Bangladesh, the state of funding in Dhaka and what determines funding dynamics, the myth of low valuation, the challenges f... |
| Jun 3, 2018 | Demystifying Phenomenal Growth Of Best Electronics With Syed Tahmid Zaman, Director of Marketing & Service, Best Electronics | Best Electronics Director of Marketing & Service Syed Tahmid Zaman on how Best Electronics started its journey, how it operates as a company, how it has grown from a 12 outlets retail brand to over 120 outlets in a span of a few years a... |
| May 24, 2018 | Unpacking GD Assist, The Future Of Insurance Business, and Life’s Lessons With Syed Moinuddin Ahmed, MD, GD Assist, AMD, Green Delta Insurance Company Limited | Syed Moinuddin Ahmed, Managing Director of GD Assist, Additional Managing Director and Company Secretary of Green Delta Insurance Company Limited, on his childhood and how his upbringing in a middle-class household shaped his life, influenc... |
| May 14, 2018 | The Art Of Business and Life: An Interview With Tanvir Haider Chaudhury, CEO, Kazi Food Industries Ltd | Tanvir Haider Chaudhury is the Chief Executive Officer at Kazi Food Industries Ltd. Prior to joining Kazi Food, he was a senior banker and worked at Standard Chartered Bank for 17 years.
Since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in ... |
| May 8, 2018 | Behind The Rise of Prothom Alo Digital and The Future Of Digital Media Business In Bangladesh: An Interview with Ahteram Uddin, COO, Prothom Alo Digital | Ahteram Uddin is the Chief Operating Officer of Prothom Alo Digital, which is one of the most visited Bangladeshi and Bengali websites in the world. Mr. Uddin is a digital veteran. Prior to joining Prothom Alo, he built and sold his own dig... |
| May 1, 2018 | CloudWell CEO Anisul Islam On Culture, ClouldWell’s Future And Why Building A Business Is More Like Trekking A Mountain | Anisul Islam is the founder and CEO of CloudWell which runs PayWell, a payment, and service aggregator platform. Started operation in 2012 with a team of 12 people and 4/5 part-time salesmen, it has evolved significantly over the past few y... |
| Apr 30, 2018 | BD Venture’s Path Forward, And The Most Exciting Sectors To Watch In Dhaka: An Interview With Shawkat Hossain, Managing Director, BD Venture Limited | Shawkat Hossain is the founding Managing Director of BD Venture Limited, Bangladesh’s one of the earliest venture capital firms established in 2012 when venture capital rule yet to be promulgated in the country. Over the past few years, BD ... |
| Apr 24, 2018 | Mahmudul Hasan Sohag On OnnoRokom Ambition, Udvash, Pi Labs And Imperatives For Entrepreneurial Success | For those who don't know Mahmudul Hasan Sohag, he is the co-founder and chairman of OnnoRokom Group, a wildly successful technology company based in Dhaka.
Over the past years, he and his team at OnnoRokom have built a mission-driven entir... |
| Apr 16, 2018 | Adcomm’s Next Act and The Business Of Communication In A New World: An Interview With Nazim Farhan Choudhury, Managing Director, Adcomm | Nazim Farhan Choudhury, Managing Director of Adcomm Limited, runs one of the oldest and largest full-service advertising agencies in Bangladesh. Started his career in advertising in 1994, Mr. Farhan is considered as one of the most influent... |
| Apr 12, 2018 | Future Of Bdjobs.com, Ajkerdeal’s Mobile-first Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Life: An Interview With Fahim Mashroor, Founder and CEO, Bdjobs and Ajkerdeal | There are very few people in Dhaka’s internet entrepreneurship space quite as important — or as influential — as Fahim Mashroor, the Founder, and CEO of Bdjobs.com, country’s first online job portal, and Ajkerdeal, one of the fast-growing e... |
| Mar 13, 2018 | The Evolution Of CloudWell, ClouldWell’s Strategy and Business: An Interview With Anisul Islam, Founder and CEO, CloudWell | We have been following CloudWell from the beginning of its journey, we first interviewed Mr. Anisul Islam in 2016, you may find the interview here. CloudWell started operation in 2012 with a team of 12 people and 4/5 part-time salesmen. Ini... |
| Mar 4, 2018 | Unpacking Field Buzz's Business, Strategy And Ambition: An Interview With Habib Ullah Bahar, CEO, Field Buzz | Field Buzz is one of the few startups in Dhaka that you can conveniently put as a textbook example of how to build a technology company from scratch. The story of Field Buzz answers many pressing questions related to building a sustainable ... |
| Feb 11, 2018 | EMK Center, Entrepreneurship Ecosystem, Technology, Culture, and The Future: An interview With M.K. Aaref, CEO, EMK Center | Since his appointment as CEO of Edward M Kennedy Center for Public Service and the Arts in 2012, M.K. Aaref has positioned EMK Center as the epicenter of activities, events and initiatives around arts, culture, education and entrepreneurshi... |
| Feb 5, 2018 | Telenor Health Sees A Steady Growth, Tonic’s Strategy and Ambition: An Interview With Sajid Rahman, CEO, Telenor Health | Since his appointment as chief executive officer of Telenor Health in 2015, Sajid Rahman has been instrumental in spearheading the launch of a host of paid subscription products, has successfully positioned Tonic, the flagship product of Te... |
| Jan 17, 2018 | Aarong, BRAC's Social Enterprises, and Life: An Interview With Tamara Hasan Abed, Senior Director, BRAC | “When I was 7 years old, my mother died while giving birth to my younger brother. Although I was too young to comprehend the magnitude of my loss, it changed my life forever in many ways,” says Tamara Hasan Abed. She continues, “I became ve... |
| Jan 15, 2018 | What’s Next For SSL Wireless: An Interview With Ashish Chakraborty, Chief Operating Officer, SSL Wireless | Technology has been a part of the lives of common people in Bangladesh for a very long time. The computer usage was started in the 70s. BUET opened its CSE department in 1979 in the form of a computer center that was later turned into CSE d... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | Culture At bKash and The Future Of HR and Work in Bangladesh: An Interview With Mohammed Ferdous Yusuf, Chief Human Resources Officer, bKash | 20 to 25 years ago, HR was a relatively obscure discipline, particularly in the context of Bangladesh. Today, not having an HR Department in your organization tells a lot about what kind of organization yours is. Of course, we have a long w... |
| 2018 | Transsion, Mobile Phone Industry, And Life: An Interview With Rezwanul Hoque, CEO, Transsion Bangladesh | Transsion Bangladesh is a relatively new entrant to Bangladesh’s fast-growing and equally competitive mobile phone industry. Within a short span of time, it has managed to build a strong presence in the market with its distinct strategy and... |
| Dec 21, 2017 | Life’s Work: Mamun Rashid | Mamun Rashid, Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers(PwC) Bangladesh, is a voracious reader, “growing up, I had spent more time with books than anything else and even these days’ books are my best friends,” Says Mr. Mamun. Son of a Gove... |
| Dec 4, 2017 | Future Inside: 05 Powerful Interviews Exploring The Future Of Finance, Agriculture, On-Demand Economy, Digital Marketing and The Future of Retail in Bangladesh | Muhammad A.(Rumee) Ali
Life’s Work: An Interview With Muhammad A. (Rumee) Ali, CEO, BIAC [Read the full interview here]
Dear readers, you are in for a wonderful time! Please find yourself a cozy place, get a cup of coffee or whatever you ... |
| Nov 23, 2017 | What’s Next For Magnito Digital: An Interview With Riyad Shahir Ahmed Husain, Co-founder and CEO, Magnito Digital | Riyad Shahir Ahmed Husain is the CEO of Dhaka-based digital marketing company Magnito Digital. Magnito is one of the earliest digital marketing companies in Dhaka and over the past few years, it has grown significantly. In its fifth year no... |
| Nov 16, 2017 | An Interview With Md. Sazzadul Hassan | Md. Sazzadul Hassan is the Managing Director at Syngenta Bangladesh. Mr. Hassan was born and brought up in Dhaka. He studied Statistics at Dhaka University, after his bachelors in Statistics, he did an M.Sc. in Computer Science when Dhaka U... |
| Oct 24, 2017 | The Future of Retail, Shwapno, and Life: An Interview With Sabbir Hasan Nasir, Executive Director, ACI Logistics | “I try to bring ‘beauty’ into everything,” says Sabbir Hasan Nasir, “into the product, space, customer relationship and overall organization.” He is the Executive Director of ACI Logistics where he leads Shwapno, the leading retail brand of... |
| Oct 20, 2017 | The Future Of On-demand Food Delivery In Bangladesh: An Interview with Zubair Siddiky, Co-founder & MD, foodpanda Bangladesh | Zubair B.A. Siddiky is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Foodpanda (stylized foodpanda) Bangladesh. Over the past few years the company, which launched its operation in Dhaka in 2013, has grown significantly.
Food-tech, which include... |
| Oct 8, 2017 | The Surprising Benefits of Embracing Challenges and Struggles Of Life With a Positive Attitude | Life is in many ways a perpetual journey into challenges and struggles. Most often than not, things don’t go as we plan. There are minor glitches such as load-shedding and traffic jam and there major ones such as losing a job or failing in ... |
| Oct 7, 2017 | 'If You Want To Be Happy, Limit Your Ambition": 06 Powerful Life Lessons From Our Long-form Interview With Muhammad A. (Rumee) Ali | On September 21, this year, we published an interview with Muhammad A. (Rumee) Ali, Chief Executive Officer of Chief Executive Officer at Bangladesh International Arbitration Centre (BIAC).
Mr. Ali is an important figure in Bangladesh’s bu... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | AFBL, Communication, and Life: An Interview With Hindol Roy, Head of Marketing, Akij Food and Beverage Limited | Hindol Roy is the Head of Marketing at Akij Food and Beverage Limited. Prior to joining AFBL, Mr. Roy worked in a diverse set of organizations including TATA AIG Life Insurance, Pepsi, and Kohinoor Chemical Co (BD) Ltd spanning multiple cou... |
| Sep 23, 2017 | How I Built This: An Interview With Masud Parvez Raju, Founder and CEO, Caretutors.com | Masud Parvez Raju is the founder and CEO of Caretutors.com, an online tutor matching platform based in Dhaka. Started in 2012, Caretutors.com is now one of the largest online tutor providing platforms in the country. The platform has now ov... |
| Sep 21, 2017 | Life’s Work: Muhammad A. (Rumee) Ali | Dear readers, you are in for a wonderful time! Please find yourself a cozy place, get a cup of coffee or whatever you like and get ready to peek into the brilliant mind of Muhammad A. (Rumee) Ali. Muhammad A. (Rumee) Ali is the Chief Execut... |
| Sep 16, 2017 | Life’s Work: An interview With Asif Iqbal, Executive Director - Marketing, Meghna Group of Industries | Asif Iqbal is the Executive Director - Marketing at the fast-growing local conglomerate Meghna Group of Industries. Mr. Iqbal is considered as one of the finest business leaders in the country having experience of working in a diverse set o... |
| Aug 19, 2017 | Life’s Work: An Interview With Mridul Chowdhury, Founder and CEO, mPower Social Enterprises | Mridul Chowdhury is the founder and CEO of mPower Social Enterprises. Prior to starting mPower, he worked in a host of sectors starting from academia to government to NGO. After his post graduation from Harvard University, he made a conscio... |
| Aug 8, 2017 | Dhaka Bank Go: Inside Dhaka Bank’s Mobile Ambition | Dhaka Bank has launched its mobile app ‘Dhaka Bank Go’ recently with an ambition to ensure convenience and superior service experience for its users. This is part of a larger trend where an increasing number of financial organizations are e... |
| Aug 6, 2017 | Life’s Work: An Interview With Shariful Islam, Founder, Bangladesh Brand Forum | Shariful Islam is the Founder of Bangladesh Brand Forum (BBF). Mr. Islam has an astounding body of work. Prior to starting BBF, he worked at several leading multinational companies including Unilever and Novartis among others. He left his h... |
| Jul 12, 2017 | The Evolution Of Nascenia: An Interview with Shaer Hassan, Co-founder and CEO, Nascenia | Shaer Hassan is the founder and CEO of Nascenia, a software solutions provider based in Dhaka. Started seven years ago, today Nascenia serves clients from a long list of countries, has a growing business and eyeing the next phase of expansi... |
| Apr 19, 2017 | Life’s Work: An Interview With Syed Mahbubur Rahman, Managing Director and CEO, Dhaka Bank Limited | CEO and Managing Director of Dhaka Bank, Syed Mahbubur Rahman, recounts his early life and career, how his father inspired a sense of commitment and strong work ethic in him, and diminishing importance of values in our society today, talks ... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | An Interview With Khandaker Anwar Ehtesham, FVP and Head of Communications and Branding, Dhaka Bank | FVP and Head of Communications and Branding of Dhaka Bank Limited, Khandaker Anwar Ehtesham, reflects on his diverse career in advertising and banking industry, why dynamism of marketing discipline is the best part of it, how brand marketin... |
