MR.MD. MANIRUZZAMAN CHOWDHURY, CHAIRPERSON

Mr. Chowdhury was Additional Secretary, Government of Bangladesh and his last posting was the Chairman, Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation (BSCIC). He has been involved in the Capital Market of Bangladesh since 1996. He also held many important positions in the various financial organizations. He was a Director in Organon, Aramit, Boesel, Chittagong Dry Dock, MIDAS, and Basic Bank Limited, among others.

He has a M.A. degree in International Relations. Mr. Chowdhury’s career started with Joined Govt, of Pakistan as a Section Officer, followed by his job in Pakistan Taxation Service as Deputy Commissioner of Taxes. During the liberation war of Bangladesh, he joined Provisional Government of the country as Deputy Director. He has attended many trainings and travelled many countries of the world.

MR. MD. KAMRUL HASSAN, DIRECTOR

He has over 12 years of full time work experience with various multinational organizations in the field of investment banking, corporate finance, leasing, merchant banking and securities brokerage. Apart from working as full time employee, he has over 5 years financial consultancy business experience through his proprietary consultancy business firm “Matrix Consulting Limited”. The organizations he worked as full time professional includes:

1. Peregrine Capital Limited, Hong Kong. (Asia’s largest investment bank).
2. Union Capital Limited.
3. Equity Partners Group. (setup by 23 international private equity investors)
4. IPDC of Bangladesh Limited (Established by IFC, DEG, CDC, AKFED).
5. “Financial Institution Development Project” (FIDP) of the World Bank.
6. First Capital Securities Limited.
7. MKR Capital Management Limited.

DURING HIS FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT PERIOD, HE WAS INVOLVED AS A TEAM MEMBER IN A NUMBER OF FIRST TIME PIONEERING DEALS IN BANGLADESH. SUCH AS:

• First AAA rated zero coupon bond issuance for a financial institution.
• First Securitized Bond issuance.
• First Financial institution Debenture/Bond issuance.
• First convertible debenture issuance in the corporate sector.
• First Publicly traded preference share issuance.
• Introduced Bangladesh’s first time professional investment portfolio management service (under merchant banking service) for public.
• First Inter-bank Repo transaction in Bangladesh.
• First time large scale foreign placement of Bangladesh equity securities in the US and European markets.
• Introduced first time international quality securities brokerage services in Bangladesh.
• Introduced first time modern merchant banking services in Bangladesh.

He has an excellent interactions and liaison with national and international level consultants working in the relevant field. He is holding a B.com (Hon’s.) and Masters Degree in Finance and Banking from the Dhaka University, Bangladesh. He has completed to-date more than 100 financial consultancy assignments through his proprietary consultancy firm “Matrix Consulting Ltd”. The details can be found in the following website link: http://matrixcl.com/successful-consulting-experience.php

PROFESSOR MD. SAHAJHAN MINA, ADVISER

Md. Sahajhan mina is professor of finance Department of University of Dhaka. He is a popular writer of various books related Accounts & finance. He is M.com & MBA from University of Dhaka. With wide range of knowledge he serves NRBEML as an advisor.