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CEO and Managing Director of Unilever Bangladesh, appointed in 2025 after seven years as its Supply Chain Director. Nearly three decades across engineering, R&D, projects, manufacturing and supply chain, including factory leadership in Chittagong and responsibility for eighteen personal-care outsourcing plants across India with Hindustan Unilever. Mechanical Engineering at IIT Kanpur.

CEO of Grameenphone, which he joined as Director of Sales & Distribution and has since led as CMO, Deputy CEO and Chief Executive. His career spans Telenor group roles in Oslo and circle leadership at Uninor in India, and he served as CMO for Telenor Emerging Asia across Bangladesh, Pakistan and Myanmar. President of AMTOB and a former Vice President of FICCI. MBA in Marketing from IBA, University of Dhaka, with executive programmes at INSEAD and London Business School.

Founder and CEO of 10 Minute School, which he started in 2015 and has led since. Forbes 30 Under 30, Queen's Young Leader and a bestselling author, with international recognition including the GLOMO Award at Mobile World Congress and the APICTA Award. He read Finance at IBA, University of Dhaka, and is a Certified Supply Chain Analyst.

Managing Director of Bata Bangladesh since 2025, after a year as Chief Business Officer for ACI's foods and commodity brands. She has spent more than two decades in FMCG, running ACI Foods, ACI Flour and ACI Edible Oil as Business Director with full profit-and-loss ownership, and earlier led antiseptics, air care and personal care for Reckitt Benckiser across Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. She read Marketing at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, taking both her BBA and MBA there.

Independent Director and Chairman of National Bank, nominated by the central bank as part of its reform programme, and a professor at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka. She also serves as an independent director of Grameenphone, British American Tobacco Bangladesh and Unilever Consumer Care, and researches corporate governance, sustainability finance and reporting. Before entering academia she worked at Citibank and British American Tobacco Bangladesh. She holds a PhD in Accounting and Finance from Alliance Manchester Business School as a Commonwealth scholar, an MBA from IBA and a master's in Development Studies from the University of Colombo.

Chief Executive Officer of Unimart since 2024, having previously led the building materials division of the Anwar Group as CEO, covering its Ispat, cement and DuraRoof businesses. He spent six years at LafargeHolcim Bangladesh as Sales Director and then Sales & Marketing Director, and earlier ran sales and marketing operations at Akij Corporation and sales development for ACI's consumer business. His career began at Unilever Bangladesh, where he moved from Regional Sales Manager to Trade Marketing Manager over seven years. He holds an MBA in Marketing from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka.

Chief People Officer of Apex DMIT, leading group-wide human resources across Apex DMIT, Kazi Resort and Apex Property after three years as General Manager for HR and administration. She has spent more than fifteen years in the function across IT, telecom, real estate and training, including two years heading human resources at eGeneration, an IT-enabled services company of more than five hundred staff, and six years at BRAC IT Services. She is the founder and president of Women Empowering Women and has convened Women of Inspiration programmes at JCI Bangladesh. She holds an MBA in Human Resource Management from American International University-Bangladesh.

Chief Executive Officer of Square Toiletries, appointed in 2025 after two years as Chief Operating Officer and five as Director and Head of Operations. He joined the company in 2002 and led its marketing for sixteen years, a period over which it became the second-largest FMCG business in Bangladesh. He is also Vice President of the Bangladesh Archery Federation. He holds an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka, and a postgraduate diploma in human resources.

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of axentec since 2024. He spent ten years at Robi Axiata, latterly as Chief Enterprise Business Officer and before that as Executive Vice President for enterprise business, and led corporate and SME business at airtel for four years. His earlier career was at Coats, where he moved from Area Sales Manager to General Manager for marketing services over fourteen years. He has completed executive programmes at Harvard Business School, INSEAD and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Chief Human Resources Officer for RAK Ceramics in Bangladesh, having joined as Head of Human Resources in 2025 and redesigned its core HR processes on SAP HANA. His twenty-four years in the function span multinationals and local business houses, including Transcom Beverages, the PepsiCo franchise for Bangladesh. He was named among the 101 Most Influential Global HR Leaders by the World HRD Congress in 2019, and teaches compensation policy and performance management as adjunct faculty at BRAC Business School and the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. He holds an MBA from North South University and an HR certification from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Chief Human Resources Officer of BRAC Bank, appointed in 2026 after nine years as Chief Human Resources and Administration Officer of banglalink, the VEON subsidiary. She founded Second Mountain Consulting, which partners with organisations on building future-ready workforces, and earlier held human resources leadership roles at Lafarge Surma Cement and Standard Chartered Bank. She took her BBA and MBA at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka.

Chief People Officer of Renata, having led its human resources function for eleven years before stepping up in 2026. She headed HR and training at BRAC's Aarong, where the workforce ran to around three thousand permanent employees, and earlier served as Chief Operating Officer and then Chief Executive of the TeleConsult Group. She holds an executive MBA in human resources from BRAC University and is a SHRM Senior Certified Professional.

CEO of Walton Micro-Tech Corporation since 2021 and a director of Walton Group since 2020, overseeing the production, marketing and distribution of the group's electronic products in Bangladesh and abroad. She launched and runs Walton's e-commerce platform, developed and expanded its battery brands — Power Master, Road Rider, Hypervoltz, Skyvoltz and Graviton — and is onboarding Bangladesh's first lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant. She also directs Fervent Multiboard Industries and leads the group's fastener and cable projects, including the WES Plaza sales network. MS in Business of Fashion and a BA in Economics from Rutgers University.

Country Managing Director of Oracle for Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan since 2019, and founder of the digital healthcare platform Pulse Healthcare Services. She spent eleven years at Grameenphone, joining in 1998 and rising through Head of Marketing to Chief Communications Officer as the company grew from a start-up to the market leader with revenue above a billion US dollars, then led service, mCommerce and public relations at airtel Bangladesh for six years. She served as President of TiE Dhaka. She has completed executive programmes at Harvard Business School, London Business School and the Stockholm School of Economics.

Chief Human Resources Officer of Grameenphone since September 2023, having previously spent four years as Human Resources Director at Perfetti Van Melle and a year as Chief HR Officer of the Partex Star Group. She was Chief People Officer at BRAC for four years, responsible for human resources and learning across an organisation of about 120,000 staff, where she redesigned the structure and introduced a performance system. Her earlier career spans Lafarge Surma Cement, Citi, Unilever Bangladesh and Concern Worldwide. She read Commerce at National University.

Chief People and Culture Officer of BRAC IT, leading its people transformation agenda, and an independent director of Prokoushal Corporation. She spent six years as Chief People Officer of GPH Ispat — the first woman to hold a CXO role in Bangladesh's steel manufacturing sector — and before that was Director of Human Resources at BRAC International, covering eleven countries across Africa and Asia. Six years at Robi Axiata as Vice President for talent and development, and for resourcing and employer branding, preceded that. She holds a master's in Human Resources from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and teaches as guest faculty at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka.

Deputy Managing Director and Chief Human Resources Officer of Bank Asia, appointed in 2025 after four years as Head of Human Resources at BRAC Bank. A human resources practitioner since 1989, he has led the function at IDLC as Group Head and at Nestlé as HR Director, and ran learning and training for Nestlé across South Asia; his earlier years at British American Tobacco covered organisation development for the South Asia area. He read Aviation at the Bangladesh Air Force Academy and served thirteen years in the Bangladesh Air Force.

Chief Financial Officer and Finance Director of Unilever Bangladesh since 2023, having joined the company in 2019 and led the acquisition of GSK's consumer healthcare business, a transaction of more than 2,000 crore taka. She spent five years as Finance Director of GSK Bangladesh and earlier held finance roles at British American Tobacco, including Finance Controller for Bangladesh and regional operations finance across Asia-Pacific. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and read Finance at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka.

Chief Human Resources Officer of Nagad, the digital financial services company, appointed in 2025 after a year as Human Resources Director of the Daffodil Group, where he led the function across fifty-four concerns and 3,500 employees. At Eastern Bank he spent seven years as Head of Organisation Development, designing a behavioural competency framework and an online performance management system, and has trained more than four thousand professionals. His career also spans NRB Bank, Bank Asia, Fortis Healthcare and Save the Children. He holds a master's from Texas Tech University and is a Chartered Member of the CIPD.

Co-founder of Shohay Health, Bangladesh's largest digital health platform, with more than fourteen million followers and 1.4 million app users, and a specialty doctor in internal medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals. Her NHS experience spans internal medicine, cardiology, respiratory medicine and emergency care, and she has served on the Institutional Review Board of the SAJIDA Foundation and on Cambridge's Clinical Education Quality Committee. She is MRCP-qualified and holds an MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care from the University of Oxford with distinction, and an MBBS from Dhaka Medical College.