Top 10 Youngest CEO of Bangladesh
The CEO of a company is one of the few vital members, because of the immense amount of responsibility and power they hold. To elaborate, they are accountable for making the paramount conclusions, administering the operations, and being the medium of communication amongst the employees of the company board of directors.
What is a CEO?
CEO stands for Chief Executive Officer, and as the name suggests, they hold the topmost executive designation in any corporation.
List of top 10 Youngest CEO of Bangladesh
There are a lot of young entrepreneurs in Bangladesh, who have the brains and resources to innovate brilliant startups that help in the advancement of the nation, and some of them have made it possible through their efforts and determination.
Here is a list of the top 10 youngest CEOs of Bangladesh, whose startups hold huge potential.
Golam Murshed
Golam Murshed is currently deputed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Managing Director (MD) of Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited. He was appointed as an assistant engineer for the company in the year 2010. Through his constant efforts, he made himself stand out and got deputed to the position of Assistant Managing Director (AMD). Recently, in 2020, on 8th October, he was promoted to the designation of Managing Director (MD) and the lead manufacturer of electronics in Bangladesh. Additionally, he was responsible for the manufacturing of refrigeration appliances, and later on, promoted to the CEO of the Refrigerator Division of Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited.
The man is prominent for his strategies and approach towards operating the company, being just a 30-year-old. He is a mechanical engineer graduate from the International University of Technology (IUT). Being a young entrepreneur, he has continually tried to involve new projects in the company and tried to modernize the product manufacturing, to produce better and advanced appliances.
Mr. Murshed was the son of Md. Monirul Islam, who has been a notable core member of the Chapainawabganj Press Club. They were residents of Chapainawabganj, and Mr. Morshed came from wealthy family background.
He did not let the unprecedented year-long pandemic stop him from making the company grow. The pandemic had caused an industrial revolution, and surviving through these changes is not anyone’s cup of tea. Mr. Murshed saw the befalling difficulties as challenges he has to overcome, and that is exactly what he has been doing constantly. He has made major contributions to bring Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited to where it stands now.
Ayman Sadiq
We all have heard about the popular virtual educational platform “10 Minute School”, which has gained popularity in recent years. The brain behind this brilliant online startup is the IBA graduate, Mr. Ayman Sadiq.
He is a 29-year old entrepreneur who made education easier for students who are unable to spend the extra cash behind their studies. His online platform is completely free of cost, and this startup has led him to be included in the reputable ‘Forbes 30 under 30’ list.
His platform has obtained several global recognitions such as the Oscars of ICT, and The GLOMO Award in Mobile Congress.
Ayman himself has also received several awards like ‘The Queen’s Leader Award 2018’ for creating the platform that allowed access to high standards of education to millions of students around Bangladesh.
Fahim Ahmed
Fahim Ahmed was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer in Pathao, in the year 2018. He has been designated as the Managing Director (MD) and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the popular ride-sharing app Pathao, since the middle of 2020. He now replaced Hussain Elius, the former co-founder of Pathao.
It has not been that long, since he has been the CEO of the digital platform. Fahim has been accountable for supervising the daily operations, and for implementing several plans of action to keep up with the escalating demand for services offered by these digital platforms, especially in times of need, for example – the Covid-19 pandemic.
Minhaj Chowdhury
Minhaj Chowdhury is the CEO and one of the co-founders of the largest technological end-to-end water supply platform in South Asia, known as Drinkwell. The social venture envisions providing a clean drinking water supply to the millions of people residing in Bangladesh and India. This is because the existing water supply is tainted due to pollutants like iron, fluoride, and arsenic.
Drinkwell provides a technological model in the form of the world’s largest piped contamination removal system that can be operated by local people. Through this, the company is creating employment opportunities as well. In 2015, he was enlisted in the ‘Forbes 30 under 30’ list.
Shams Jaber
Even though he is a university dropout – a taboo subject in Asian culture, Shams Jaber has managed to create one of the fastest-growing digital and educational startups. He is the CEO of The Tech Academy is an alternative educational platform that teaches young learners coding, mechatronics, engineering, and robotics very easily.
The technological entrepreneur had envisioned an interactive educational system, and so he designed his lessons in a likewise manner. He ensured that the lessons are interactive enough, urging the students to start working on projects right after their first lecture.
Habib Ullah Bahar
Mr. Habib is a graduate of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), and he is the co-founder of a software system, known as Field Buzz. The software is used through smartphones, and it aids corporations to micromanage their operations. The software makes workflow a lot more efficient, and automates a majority of steps, leading to faster completion of tasks. Due to the managing abilities being with the users on their phones, fraudulent activities are highly minimized. With their increasing preference in the market, it took them less than 2 years to acquire renowned clients from countries like Germany, the USA, Afghanistan, and of course Bangladesh.
Arif Md. Waliullah Bhuiyan
This man is an innovator under the age of just 35. He is the founder of the non-profit social organization Light of Hope. The motto of his startup was to improve the educational resources of children. The organization focuses on making education more intriguing, enthusiastic, and interactive, so students get the push that drives them to learn more.
The organization manages events for children and their families and helps local schools to inaugurate libraries for enhanced learning opportunities. Light of Hope has also come up with brilliant solutions to run solar-operated classrooms in rural areas to ensure high efficiency and low costing.
In an interview, he also mentioned his devotion towards work by saying that he wants to be a writer of children’s books and a movie director who creates movies in genres like comedy and war.
Raisul Kabir
Raisul Kabir is one of the most remarkable entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. He is the co-founder of BrainStation23, which is one top software firms in the country. The company works with both domestic and international clients. He began the company in 2006, promptly after he completed graduation in the EEE department from BUET.
Various companies like e-commerce, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical companies may need professional help from time to time. Brainstation23 can offer them help if it is in their field of specialty, which is software and IT. They offer a plethora of services like creating custom websites, designing new smartphone applications, and various other solutions for complications in fin-tech or cloud companies.
Tamanna Ahmed
Tamanna Ahmed is another remarkable entrepreneur due to her co-founded startup PRISM. She completed her master’s degree in environmental science, in 2019, from North South University. She is also a founder of the organization – UC events. PRISM is an online platform that helps all e-commerce based business organizations manage their sales figures, stock count, and order details. Customers now rely heavily on this platform to pick up their ordered items or exchange their purchased products with other customers.
About UC events, here people can assemble fashion exhibits for small startup businesses they own. This is a huge support for all the women entrepreneurs out there. She won several awards like – Commonwealth Youth Advocacy Training, Save the Nature, and Outstanding Achievement Award.
Atiqur Rahman Sarker
Mr. Sarker is another innovator under the age of 35. He started bringing reality to his vision of manufacturing advanced electrical appliances, by creating his startup – Filament Engineering.
He has generated many ideas like Clean Cooking Stove and inverters. His startup focuses on working by figuring out methods of renewable energy.
Filament is currently known as MUSPANA, since 2008. His innovation – Muspana Sabuj Chula, the clean cooking stove, was remarkable and won GACC and UN Foundation Spark Fund. The company has continually innovated new electrical devices and biomedical supplies. In the year 2009, they began the production of various solar-operated appliances like batteries, chargers, and inverters.
Conclusion
These are the top 10 people in their prime of life, who have turned a lot of their extraordinary intentions and goals into reality through their constant hard work and amazing talent. Their dedication, focus, and persistence towards their goals should be an inspiration to the future rising stars and entrepreneurs of Bangladesh.
