Anchorless Bangladesh: Mentors

Aaisha Bhuiyan

Amazon

Aaisha is a Program Manager at Amazon Web Services focused on national security with prior roles in product management and sales at Amazon. Outside of work, she has been active in humanitarian relief work, gender equity and social advocacy. She is a graduate of Penn State.

New York, USA

Afrin Bhuiyan

Harry's

Afrin is a Senior Associate at Harry's, a men's hygiene and accessories company that's raised over $650 million. Prior to Harry's, she was an Investment Banking Analyst at Barclays. She is a graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University.

New York, USA

Anika Zaman

Brevy

Anika is a Co- Founder and COO of Brevy that enables teams to collaboratively work on bug reports, making it easier to give direct and detailed feedback on websites. The startup was part of Y Combinator S20. Prior to that, Anika worked as a Program Manager for Azure Media Services Vide Indexer at Microsoft. She graduated from Rice University with a focus on Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Washington, USA

Bickey Russell

Google

Bickey is the Director of Global Operations for the Next Billion Users Initiative at Google. He also founded Kormo by Google in 2017—a job and career development service that connects millions of people to jobs in Bangladesh, Indonesia and India. Bickey is also an advisor at Maya, a Bangladeshi-Singaporean healthtech startup. He is a graduate of King's College London.

Singapore

Laviva Mazhar

Luge Capital

Laviva is an Investment Associate at Luge Capital focusing on fintech and investing in early-stage teams shaping the way the world experiences financial services. She was previously an Investment Analyst at Frest Capital Partners and an Advisor at the Holt Accelerator. She is a graduate of McGill University.

Montreal, Canada

Mir Faiyaz

Soma Capital

Mir is a Venture & Growth Investor at Soma Capital based in the Bay Area, focused on technology investments across any sector or geography. Previously, he worked at ICONIQ Capital, a premier late-stage tech VC focused on SaaS and Fintech investments. Prior to that, Mir was a management consultant where he worked in a private equity practice. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

San Francisco, USA

Mohammad Adib

Adib is a serial entrepreneur who emigrated to the USA via the DV lottery at the age of 10. By the age of 14, he had built apps with 2.5+ million downloads. By the age of 20, he sold two companies. He has worked on software for Tinder, Uber, Amazon, Walmart and others. He is a dropout of University of Washington.

Los Angeles/Seattle, USA

Naeem Ahmed

ContentFly

Naeem is the founder and CEO of ContentFly, a Y Combinator (W21) startup that has an on-demand platform for creating high-quality content for businesses using AI and world class writers. It recently raised $9 million led by Khosla Ventures. Naeem was previously Head of Growth at Zapier. He is a graduate of University of Toronto.

Toronto, Canada

Quazi Zulquarnain

Uber

Zulquar is the International Head of Innovation Products at Uber where he works on launching new verticals for the company's Mobility business. He has previously worked at Rocket Internet and International Finance Corporation. He is a graduate of North South University.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rakib Azad

Chainalysis

Rakib is the Vice President of Finance at Chainalysis, a blockchain-centric company that provides data and analysis to government agencies, banks and businesses around the world. It's raised over $250 million to date. He was previously the Senior Director of Finance at MongoDB and Head of Finance at Ladders. He is a graduate of University of Rochester and the Stern School of Business at New York University.

New York, USA

Rezaul Hoque

Stripe

Reza is the Engineering Leader at Stripe, a leading fintech SaaS that helps businesses of all sizes facilitate online payment and provide sophisticated financial solutions. Before this, he was the Director of Engineering at Wave, a modern accounting solution acquired by H&R Block in 2019. He was also a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft. He is a graduate of North South University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Toronto, Canada

Rudmila Rahman

Amazon

Rudmila is a Corporate Development Manager at Amazon with a focus on payments. Previously, she was the Director of Financial Institution Partnerships at OnDeck, Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Barclays and an Analyst at IFC. She is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Business School.

Seattle, USA

Sajjad Kamal

Global Ventures

Sajjad is a Venture Healthcare Partner at Global Ventures, an emerging markets venture capital fund. Prior to that, he was the co-founder and CTO at Y Combinator-backed AlemHealth (W17). Sajjad also co-founded Aythan, an enterprise SaaS product for healthcare insurance that was acquired and rebranded as Beneple. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo.

Dubai, UAE

Sakib Jamal

Crossbeam Venture Partners

Sakib is an Investment Associate at Crossbeam Venture Partners where he invests in early stage technology startups. He previously was an Investment Banking Analyst at JP Morgan and founded The Capsule, a media platform for South Asian news. He is a graduate of Cornell University.

New York, USA

Shafayet Patwari

Greycroft

Shafayet is an Investor at Greycroft, a venture capital fund with over $2 billion in capital with key investments in FlutterWave, Bumble and Venmo. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at EY-Parthenond. He is a graduate of University of Chicago.

New York, USA

Shamma Raghib

Collibra

Shamma is a SaaS Transformation Manager at Collibra, an end-to-end data intelligence platform to accelerate digital businesses that's raised $350 million. She is also the founder of Girls Get Funded, a platform for female entrepreneurs. She is a graduate of North South University and Vlerick Business School.

Brussels, Belgium

Shammi Quddus

Google

Shammi is a Product Manager at Google, where she builds payments infrastructure at scale, real world identities for users and transparency for payments data privacy. Prior to Google, she worked at PayJoy, a fintech app that enables smartphone financing through proprietary locking technology. She is a graduate of MIT, Harvard Kennedy and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

San Francisco, USA

Syam Anupom

TimeTackle

Syam is the founder of TimeTackle, a Y Combinator (W21) startup that analyzes calendar data and optimizes time using analytics, machine learning and workflow. He has previously led teams in distribution systems at Netflix, data/machine learning infrastructure at Evernote and development at The Walt Disney Company. He is a graduate of North South University.

San Francisco, USA

Syed Hossain

DoorDash

Syed is a Manager at DoorDash for Product and Strategy in New Verticals. Previously he was a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. He also did biomedical research under National Cancer Institute (NCI). Syed is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University.

New York

Tai Morshed

ONE Championship

Tai is the VP of Digital Partnerships at ONE Championship, Asia's leading mixed martial arts media company that's raised over $300 million. Previously, he was the director of Enterprise Sales in Southeast Asia for TubeMogul and Commercial Director for Adobe's Advertising Cloud in Southeast Asia. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

Singapore

Tamim Abdul Majid

OCA Ventures

Tamim is a General Partner at OCA Ventures, where he managed the seed portfolio as well as leading Series A investments in core tech (enterprise SaaS, consumer platforms) and fintech. Previously, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at BMO Capital Markets and an Associate at KPMG. He is a graduate of Purdue University.

Chicago, USA

Taneem Taldar

Amazon

Taneem is a Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. He previously co-founded Dheo, an F-commerce logistics platform to power the emerging ecommerce needs of Bangladesh and was a Senior Manager at Blackberry and a Program Manager at Microsoft. He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo.

Detroit, USA

Tasnia Huque

Endeavour Capital

Tasnia is on the investment team at Endeavour Capital, a growth private equity firm, focused on the technology vertical. She has previously worked at Warner Bros. Entertainment, Toast, and Cue Ball Capital as a venture investor. She is a graduate of Bates College and Harvard Business School.

Los Angeles, USA