Entrepreneurs

Dhaka

Syed Almas Kabir is the Managing Director and CEO of MetroNet Bangladesh, the country's first commercial fiber optic network operator. He served as President of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services from 2018 to 2022 and has spent more than 33 years in Bangladesh's ICT sector.

Dhaka

Mahmudur Rahman co-founded WeGro in 2021, an agri-fintech platform now serving more than 20,000 smallholder farmers across Bangladesh with credit, inputs, and insurance. Raised in a farming family, he built the company after an earlier cattle-farming venture during the pandemic.

Dhaka

Reyasat Chowdhury co-founded Shuttle in 2018, starting with a women-only commuter service to address the lack of safe transportation in Dhaka. He led the company as CEO for six years before transitioning to President, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.

Dhaka

Jhankar Mahbub founded Programming Hero after switching careers from industrial engineering to coding, building a YouTube channel and app that now teaches more than 600,000 students worldwide. The Business Standard has profiled his path from a self-taught programmer to a coding educator.

Dhaka

Ershadul Hoque is the Founder and CEO of Riseup Labs, a Dhaka-based technology company building custom software, games, immersive tech, and AI-powered platforms. He previously co-founded a Malaysian startup before returning to Bangladesh to build his own company.

Dhaka

Anayet Rashid co-founded Truck Lagbe in 2016, an online platform connecting truck owners and drivers with shippers across Bangladesh. Under his leadership, the company has grown to more than 80,000 registered trucks and raised $5 million from investors including IFC and IDLC Finance.

Dhaka

Kawshar Ahmed founded JoomShaper in 2010, later restructuring it under the parent company Ollyo in 2021, building a portfolio of WordPress and Joomla products including Tutor LMS and the no-code builder Kirki. He holds a degree from Bangladesh Textile University and leads a team of more than 65 people from Dhaka.

Dhaka

Dr. F.H. Ansarey serves as Managing Director and CEO of ACI Agrolink, one of Bangladesh's leading agribusiness integrators. With more than 35 years in agriculture, he conceived ACI's "Creating Wealth for Farmers" mission and helped launch multiple agribusiness subsidiaries.

Dhaka

Tasfia Tasbin co-founded Markopolo AI in Dhaka in 2021, an AI-native customer engagement platform now serving e-commerce businesses internationally. In 2023, she and her co-founder were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list.

Dhaka

M. Rezaul Hassan is the Founder and Group CEO of REVE Systems, a telecom and VoIP software company serving more than 2,300 operators across 80-plus countries. What started as a six-person team in a Khilgaon garage in 2003 has grown into a Singapore-headquartered conglomerate spanning nine business verticals.

Dhaka

Kamal Quadir founded bKash in 2010, growing it into Bangladesh's first unicorn and a mobile financial service serving over 82 million verified customers. A former artist and MIT Sloan graduate, he earlier built and sold CellBazaar to Telenor before turning to fintech.

Dhaka

M. Mahboob Zaman founded DataSoft Systems Bangladesh in 1998 with just Tk 10 lakh in capital, building it into one of the country's earliest CMMI Level 5 certified software companies. A former freedom fighter in Bangladesh's 1971 Liberation War, he later expanded into hardware manufacturing with DMA.