RMC HUB - Key Persons
Abrar Mohammad Ali is a software developer with more than 3 years of expertise in the field of Information Technoloy with a vast array of experience including front end and back end development, responsive frameworks, databases, best code practices, etc. Having received his bachelor's degree from BRAC University in Computer Science and Engineering in 2018, Abrar has developed a strong command of building high quality, scalable solutions for the software applications to contribute his best to the technology industry. Through his work and affiliations, he has positioned himself as a leader on campus regarding bringing diversity and inclusion with the help of technology by managing multiple successful consulting web projects and trainings. His early career-focused activities, sound expertise in IT, R&D and management has provided him with the tools to be a good team leader and a changemaker within the community. This helps him turn ideas into actions and create efficient solutions with understanding global and diversifired multicultural perspectives.
Beside his career, he is a Professional Freelance Web Designer and Photographer with 7 years of related experience. He is always keen to get involved with all types of projects, development activities, challenges and tasks. He believes in exploring his life to the fullest.
Anika Rabbani, Yoganika, is a reputed yoga teacher and health coach based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Anika trains in ashtanga yoga at KPJAYI, Mysore with her guru Sharath Jois. Anika teaches beginner, yin and vinyasa flow, corporate classes and also runs a yoga class for children. Yoganika is a space founded by her that is dedicated to healing, health, beauty, inner peace and wellness.
Doug Foskett joined the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 1986 and served in various capacities in Canberra and on overseas posting. In Staffing and Personnel Section in Canberra, he was responsible for recruitment and overseas placements. In Canberra, he also served as Director of Consular Operations, and Director of Parliamentary Liaison. Overseas, he served in Mauritius, New Zealand, Fiji, Myanmar (Deputy Ambassador) and as Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh 2005-2009.
He was employed with Cairn Energy as its Company Representative in Aasiaat, Greenland, in 2010-2011, where he was principally responsible for community liaison.
In 2012, Doug was appointed Head of Office (Country Director) for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) office in Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic, where he served until his compulsory retirement in 2016. In Laos, he was also a member of the UN Country Team.
Doug Foskett graduated in International Relations, Politics, and History from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and has a Diploma in Education from the same university.
Currently Doug Foskett is working as a freelance business and political analyst.
Doug has a strong record as a strategic thinker and manager. With high-level communication and advocacy skills and a keen awareness of cultural sensitivities, he has an excellent record in working with foreign governments and officials. While strongly focused on results and outcomes, he maintains the highest ethical standards and instils the same in his colleagues. The emphasis of IOM's human trafficking programs in Laos reflected the importance he attaches to gender-based programs and the rights of minority groups.
Humaun has versatile industry experience with exposure to diversified arenas of Human Resources. Excellent proficiency in HR at all levels within the organization to support the business strategy, resolve …
Johan Ahmed is a HR Professional having 13+ years of experience in different Industries of Bangladesh. He is a Certified Human Resource Practitioner (CHRP) from Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management (MIHRM). He is also certified in Job Evaluation from Hay Group, Singapore and in Psychometric Testing by EMPI's Uday Pareek HR-Labs, India.
He started his career with KDS Accessories Ltd., and then followed by ACI Logistics Ltd., Tech Valley Networks Ltd. , Grameenphone IT Ltd., Accenture Bangladesh, SQ Group and Aarong. While working with these organizations, he had opportunity to work with various projects, and gained expertise on Designing HR Policies, Preparing Job Descriptions, Introducing KPI based performance management, Implementing HRIS, Introducing Codes of Conduct, Employer Branding, Implementing Assessment Center, Organizational Restructuring, Background Screening of Employees, Acquisition and Merger project, Bringing Organizational Efficiency, Introducing Job Rotation etc.
He is a Computer Science graduate from North South University, Dhaka and holds MBA Degree from the same university.
M Tareq is a seasoned management professional with more than 20 years of experience in various positions and capacities. Tareq has worked at home and abroad in leading global brands and international organisations e.g. Save the Children UK, IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Concern Worldwide, Grameen Phone IT/Accenture, ACME Tele Power (Mauritius) Ltd., Poh Lian Bluestar (Singapore), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australian Embassy), Operations Specialist Group Australia Pty Ltd., Delegation of the European Union to Australia, Canada Border Services Agency (Asia Pacific Region), Australian National University/ANU-Enterprise, ACT Government, ASG Group Ltd (An NRI Company).
Tareq also had led number of successful consulting projects:
Developing human resources strategy GFATM project- a Global Funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in association with USAID and Save the Children International to combat HIV/AIDS/Tuberculosis/Malaria in Bangladesh.
Executive Recruitment (BRAC International, German Embassy).
HR Policy and Procedures development (for American/Bangladesh Joint Venture company).
Develop and review compensation and benefit strategy for various organisations.
Introduced online induction systems and soft skills learning portals in GrameenPhone IT.
Tareq also led employee engagement surveys for various organizations. Tareq has successfully led more than couple of hundred recruitment processes over the last 15 years time and led soft skills training programs for GPIT/Accenture, Confidence Group, British Council, Save the Children and so on.
Tareq led a team of editors for more than 10 years of publishing the quarterly newsletter ‘HR Focus' sharing the best Human Resource Practices supported by BSHRM, which includes planning, designing the contents, interviewing number of successful business leaders inf Bangladesh, edit, publish and sharing within the HR and business communities.
Tareq has completed the ‘Leading Strategic Innovation: How to Lead with Purpose' course from Deakin University, Australia in 2020. He has also completed the ‘Professional Communications - SH1000' from Open University, Australia in July 2020. Tareq is the board member of a number of charities at home and abroad.
Tareq is also a professional member of BSHRM and SHRM.
Monjurul Alam is a credible HR professional with significant exposure to delivering business relevant HR initiatives within dynamic environments. He has worked for more than 20 years with large corporate, MNC, manufacturing concerns, retail business and embassy. He is a Chartered MCIPD who gained global experience through working with more than 14 nation's professionals. He is currently the Head, Human Resources of Eastern Bank Limited. He has worked as HR Consultant, Manpower.com - Glasgow, UK and previously as HR Manager & Diversity Officer, The British High Commission. He was the Professional Projects Leads of HR Consultant of Circle a fintech company, Revamp of HR Policy, Revamp of compensation & benefit practice of AFC Group. He also has voluntary experience as members of Bangladesh Scouts since 1983 and Bangladesh Red Crescent Society 1992.
Monjurul Alam is a Chartered MCIPD.He has published a research on "Private Commercial Bank's attrition:is the Grading system wrong?" from CIPD in collaboration with REED Business School.
Job Titles:
- DIRECTOR
- Member of Rotary Club of Padma
- Senior Vice President and Head of Branch of South Bangla Agricultural
Md. Monzur Murshed Khan serves as a Senior Vice President and Head of Branch of South Bangla Agricultural and Commerce Bank Ltd. - one of the largest agricultural support providers in Bangladesh.He joined SBAC…
Beaide serving SBAC, Monzur is an active Committee Member of Rotary Club of Padma, Rajshahi and Life Member of Rajshahi Cancer Hospital and Research Center as well as Service Center for Elderly People, Rajshahi.
A Senior Human Resources Professional with over 30 years of experience, a strategic and innovative HR leader who translates business vision into HR initiatives that improve performance, profitability, growth, and employee engagement. An influencer who thrives on tough challenges and translates visions and strategies into actionable, value-added goals transforming cultures, building corporate restructuring, transforming and enabling high performing employees for leading multinational and local corporations in the RMG, telecommunication, banking, real estate and health care industry of Bangladesh.
Mr. Abdus Salam Bhuiyan is one of those senior HR strategists who set the tone of modern HR practices for the HR practicians of this generation. He is one of the founder members of Bangladesh Society for Human Resource Management (BSHRM) and a noteworthy contributor in the development of Human Resource Management profession in Bangladesh.
Mr. Salam Bhuiyan worked at Apollo Hospitals Dhaka (STS Holdings Ltd) as Director-Human Resources, Amin Mohammad Group (Leading real estate company) as Director-HR and as Executive Vice President & Head of HR in The City Bank Ltd. Mr. Bhuiyan is a seasoned HR professional with more than 30 years of experience in various HR organizational portfolio where he spent a significant tenure with Grameenphone in different role & capacity. In Grameenphone Mr. Salam outlined and setup the contemporary HR functions and Human Capital Management.
Mr. Bhuiyan is a strategic and innovative HR leader who translates business vision into HR initiatives that improve performance, profitability, growth, and employee engagement. An influencer who thrives on tough challenges and translates visions and strategies into actionable, value-added goals transforming cultures, building corporate re-structuring, transforming and enabling high performing employees for leading multinational and local corporates. In last 15 years of his entire career, he mostly worked with organizational restructuring, change management, performance driven culture and reward metrics.
During his career Mr. Bhuiyan has gone through many international exposures through attending overseas trainings, seminars and workshops in Asia, Middle-East, Europe, and Central Europe.
Job Titles:
- ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ( Non - Executive )
Ms Kazi Farzana Sharmin has inclusive experiences of working in varied sectors for more than 10 years, in which development sector is the predominant one. She has expertise particularly in Project Coordination, Livelihood program-project design and Fund management. She has worked with several international NGOs; Concern worldwide, JICA and currently working with Bangladesh's one of the leading institute's Skills development project, funded by ADB and Govt. of Bangladesh.
She has completed her graduation in Social Sciences and later did MBA from East west University, Bangladesh. In 2018 she studied ‘Designing Strategies and Project for Humanitarian Action' under University of Geneva in affiliation with Medicines de Frontiers. Besides, she is a certified apprentice on "Building a Better Response" of Humanitarian Academy at Harvard and on Project/Programme Planning (PPP) by IFRC-International Federation of Red cross and Red Crescent Societies.
Nasmeen Ahmed served as Senior Manager Communications at icddr,b (formerly known as International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh) from 2010 to 2015 and as Fund and Institutional Development Officer from 2007 to 2010. Nasmeen helped raise millions of dollars in funding for icddr,b through overseas government aid agencies, academic and corporate houses. She also oversaw the media and communications strategy for icddr,b's golden jubilee celebrations in 2010 and served as icddr,b's media spokesperson.
Nasmeen worked as Social Protection Coordinator at the International Labour Office Bangladesh from 2001 to 2006 and helped implement ILO-IPEC's Worst Forms of Child Labour (WFCL) project. The project received approximately US$15 million in funding from the Royal Netherlands Government. Nasmeen provided technical support to local NGOs to develop and implement social protection programmes such as non-formal education, vocational skills training and socio-economic empowerment of families to eliminate WFCL in Dhaka city.
Nasmeen has also worked with Save the Children USA as Programme Officer (Organisational Learning) from 2000 to 2001. She also worked as Communications and Fundraising consultant at PLAN International Nepal from 1998 to 1999 and as Documentation Officer at CREHPA, a Nepalese research organisation focusing on population and public health issues.
Nasmeen has expertise in the areas of communications, organisational development, project management, fund-raising, and stakeholder relations. She is also highly skilled in documentation, editing, and report writing having produced numerous annual reports, funding proposals and media articles.
Nasmeen is currently working as Coordinator with the Adult Migrants' English Programme (AMEP), a Migrant Services programme implemented by Australia's Dept. of Home Affairs. She provides resettlement support to migrant and refugee families in Canberra.
Nasmeen holds post-graduate and graduate degrees in Sociology from the Unversity of Pune, India; a diploma in French language and studies from Checik Anto Diop University, Senegal; an Exended Diploma in Leadership and Management from Brighton School of Business, UK; and Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care, Canberra. She is also engaged in voluntary work with NGOs supporting immigrant and minority communities in Canberra.
Saad is most passionate about creating value in areas where the most amount of people can be helped. Throughout his career, integration between People, Business, and the Community is the one passion that …
Sayedul is the Young Prominent Human Resources Professional of the country. Currently, he is working as a Senior Manager - HR, he is leading the Human Resources Department in a leading apparel…
Simon Mollison has a strong record of achievements and results in social and public health programming in international development. Simon hasavery solid foundation in the field and managerial skills needed for exceptional programme management and a strong background of promoting and working constructively with new ideas and change.
Simon's work has usually combined some or all of the following:
Programme, project cycle and grant management.
Planning methods.
Community consultation, research (mostqualitative methodologies) and mobilisation.
Capacity building for large and small civil society organisations.
Team leadership, coaching and mentoring.
Simon is currently working as a freelance consultant (recent work with UNICEF and WFP), mostly in the field of community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM). Previous experience included several years as Head of Donor Funded Programmes, responsible for annual budgets c. £125 million, at the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, more than 12 years working as a Country Director for Save the Children in Iraq, Bangladesh and Nepal and seven years with Save the Children in Sudan (including two years as Relief Coordinator. In addition to acute nutrition and HIV/AIDS prevention Simon has experience in developing and managing education, humanitarian assistance, gender violence and child protection programmes and have managed work in more than 25 countries.
Simon has a MA Rural Development (Planning) degree from the University of East Anglia. 1991 and a BSc Psychology (2:1) degree from the University of London, 1984.
Job Titles:
- ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ( Non - Executive )
Tamima Hossain, is a resourceful HR professional, change agent and strategy architect for 12+ years with broad based and progressively responsible work experiences in multidimensional organizations of Bangladesh and Philippines. She served as Head of HR Strategy, Policy & Communication in Prime Bank Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh till 2015.
She started her career with iDE (International Development Enterprises) in year 2002 and then followed by Bangladesh Poush, Beximco Pharmaceutical Limited, Presidency University, Monower Associates, REED Consulting Group, Prime Bank Ltd, and Global executive Solutions Group-Philippines. During her tenure with these organizations she had the privilege to leverage her expertise with knowledge of the domain for different projects. She squeezed the employee grade number of Prime Bank from 16 to 6 through broad banded pay ranges and prepared a new set of Job Description for each level and each function. She reviewed more than 70 HR policies and developed numerous new policies under the guidance of central regulatory bank of Bangladesh. She oversaw the Leadership Development Program of Prime Bank Limited for the top management and led the MDP initiatives by HR Department. She Streamlined the Performance Appraisal rating by introducing an automated web-based performance measurement tool and rolled out for implementation. She also gained expertise in business plan development, organizational restructuring, KPI based performance management etc. As the Assistant Professor, she has her research publications both in local and international journals.
She holds an MBA degree from North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh and has a PGDHRM from IPMA, UK. She's currently been enrolled in a professional development program in Cornell University, New York, USA.
She's the professional member of BSHRM and People Management Association of Philippines (PMAP).
Tania Zaman began her career in 1987 as a young professional with UNDP. After stints in policy and programming in New York, Nepal and Vietnam, she joined the International Health Policy Program, housed in The World Bank, in Washington DC. Over the next eight years she managed research and policy analysis for reforming the health sector in 11 African and Asian countries. From 2001-2011 she worked in Bangladesh in various public, private and non-profit organizations.
Tania's assignments included Governance Advisor at the Netherlands embassy; Social Development Advisor with HLSP Consulting Inc., Head of Advocacy and Research at Save the Children UK and Chief of Staff of BRAC. In 2011 she returned to the US as Executive Vice-President of Future Generations, a CSO with programs in Asia, South America and the USA and an innovative, community-based, graduate school. From 2014-2019 she worked with Plan International in Bangladesh in management roles that involved strategy formulation and co-creating and implementing projects with the government. After leaving Plan International Ms. Zaman joined Nirapon, a membership organization of North American brands providing safety monitoring, oversight and reporting services for their source RMG factories, as Director Operations and Strategy in late 2019. Tania holds a B.A. in Economics from George Washington University, an M.Phil from Yale University and an American Management Association certificate in human resources. She is based in Maryland, USA.
Job Titles:
- Brig Gen
- Brigadier General
Brigadier General Md Tofayel Ahmed, psc (Retd) worked in Bangladesh Army for over 33 years prior to his retirement on 13 June 2020 and getting settled in USA. He had a fine blend of command, staff and instructional appointments including two tours of duties for the world peacekeeping missions. BG Tofayel worked as Chief Instructor in Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operation Training (BIPSOT), Directing Staff (Instructor Class A), Defence Services Command and Staff College, Staff Officer at Unit, Brigade, Division and Army Headquarters, and Commanded Sub Unit, Unit and Brigade Group in Operational Area. He also Worked as Director and Head of Bangladesh Army War Simulation Center. For peacekeeping, worked and UN Military Observer in UNMIL, Liberia and as an Assessment and Planning Officer at UN HQ, NY. He had a long career in selection, training and assigning human resources in Armed Forces, Civilian Sectors and in UN Peacekeeping assignments.