Team

Career

He started his career as an Investment Banker and lead managed several venture funds. Throughout his career he has made 13 investment decision of which 6 of the invested companies got acquired by the likes of Google, Linkedin, Apple, Peoplesoft. He also has worked as a Vice President for Investment Banking division at Goldman Sachs. he managed the debt financing and M&A operation for the Asia Pacific region.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science University of the Philippines, Diliman; Master of Science Tokyo Institute of Technology; MBA, Yale University

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Skate Boarding, Table Tennis, Golf, Long drive, Ocean, Nature

Favorite Food

Sashimi, Sushi, Nama Oyster, Sea Urchin, Kacchi Biriani, Tehari, Sangyapsol, Kaki Soup

Motto

Knowing is NOT doing

Career

After working for T-Systems and the United Nations during his studies, he joined the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in 2005, applying AI methods to research novel Natural User Interfaces for the Internet of Things. In 2012 he co-founded the Experimental Media Lab further investigating innovative concepts for effective and engaging human-computer interaction. In 2018 he joined Hishab as the CTO.

Academic Background

Diploma & PhD in Computer Science Saarland University, Germany

Nationality

German

Hobby

Digital, analog games, sports, music

Favorite Food

All kinds of vegan curry!

Motto

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." (Albert Einstein)

Career

In 2011, she started her career at Mitsubishi UFJ Information Technology as Project Manager. She has engaged in several projects for foreign remittance system development for overseas brunch of Mitsubishi UFJ Bank. In 2014 she was relocated to Singapore and worked as ICT solution sales executive at Softbank Telecom Singapore. She was mainly in charge of Japanese corporation account. In 2016, she joined Hishab as co-founder.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Business Otaru University of Commerce, Japan.

Nationality

Japanese

Hobby

Travel, Exercise

Favorite Food

Ramen

Motto

One life, live it.

Career

His unconventional career started in his late teens where he used to do trading businesses and doing research work for large conglomerates. In about two years during the start of the 2nd year at his university, he become the Project Director for the First Private Port in Bangladesh. He worked in the port industry for over 3 years from the inception of the business and in late 2016 he Co-Founded Hishab.

Academic Background

Academic background: Bachelor of International Business North South University, Bangladesh

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Outdoor adventures such as Cycling, Driving, Scuba Diving, meeting new people and listening to stories

Favorite Food

Fried Chicken, Fried Rice, Nasi Goreng, Chicken Biryani, Kacchi Biryani, Sushi, Sashimi and steaks

Motto

Vision without execution is hallucination

Career

He is a Solutions Architect with background from Telecommunication and Retail. In 2020 he joined Hishab/Voicebridge as a Solutions Architect to help scale the organization with building up a microservice landscape and introduce agile processes.

Academic Background

Bachelor’s degree Information Technology University of Agder.

Nationality

Norwegian

Hobby

Poker

Favorite Food

Kompe

Motto

If you chase two rabbits, you catch none

Career

Since 2009 he was working as Project Lead for some med-scaled retailers in Europe focusing on different business goals in the E-Commerce world. In 2017 he changed sides beginning to work as international Project and Program Manager for one of the largest service providers for E-Commerce solutions in Europe, KPS, with his main client residing in the Scandinavian countries. In 2019 he joined Hishab as IT Manager.

Academic Background

2006 Master's degree in Multimedia Communication University for Journalism & Communication, Hannover, Germany. Diploma's degree in Media Informatics and Computer Science University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Nationality

German

Hobby

Travelling, Gaming, Sports, Nature

Favorite Food

Tajine with lamb and plum

Motto

Take your time to understand. Then act.

Career

In 2016, she started working as a Data Scientist in EMOS Inc, an AI start-up based in Hong Kong. She worked on speech recognition and several other audio classification and NLP based research projects. In early 2018, she relocated to Bangladesh and joined Jeeon , a company that works with rural healthcare. She worked with different teams to analyze different kinds of data in order to optimize the overall operation. In October 2018, she joined Hishab as a Machine Learning Engineer.

Academic Background

Masters and Bachelors in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Reading,Travelling

Favorite Food

Potato Chips

Motto

Love For All, Hatred For None

Career

He has 7 years’ experience working with multiple software companies as a software and Devops engineer and has skills and knowledge with different programming languages and DevOps mindset. From the beginning of his career, he has worked with both development and operation domains together to deliver complex software systems smoothly. He has hands-on experience in architecture, building and automating mission-critical software solutions development and deployment over large cloud-based infrastructure. His passion is centered on software development, infrastructure design, and delivery by practicing DevSecOps culture

Academic Background

Bachelor’s degree, East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Traveling, Photography

Favorite Food

BeefSteak, Pizza

Motto

Stay simple like a candle, and never forget to enlighten the world.

Career

Academic Background

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Favorite Food

Motto

Career

His career spanned from a software developer to a system analyst to a project manager, he started his career in 1993 at MOHFW, Bangladesh. Before his post-graduation in 2006, he was engaged in various levels of software development both in Bangladesh and in the UK. Afterward he concentrated on planning and managing software and web projects both in Bangladesh and in Thailand. In early 2020, he joined Hishab as the Project Manager of MFI projects.

Academic Background

Master of Science in Information System Development London Metropolitan University, London, UK.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Travel, Movies.

Favorite Food

Vuna Khichuri, Beef.

Motto

Taste your words, before you give it to others.

Career

He is working for Voicebridge UG/Hishab alongside his Master studies at Saarland University. He previously worked as student assistant for the Big Data Analytics Group. Current main research interests include Conversational User Interfaces, phone-based Voice User Interfaces, User Experience and Usability Design, as well as Emotion and Sentiment Analysis and its application.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science in Media informatics, Saarland University.

Nationality

German

Hobby

Karate, Table Tennis, Swimming, Reading

Favorite Food

Various noodle dishes like Spaghetti Bolognese, Salmon, Breaded "Schnitzel", Layered Salad, Spring Rolls, Tacos

Motto

Don’t dream it, do it

Career

He is a Computer Engineer who started his career as a Data Transcription Officer at Hishab. At the beginning he utilized his time to observe how human-Tran scripted data is fed to the Bengali ASR to build an ultimate Voice Recognition System grew out of Artificial Intelligence. Then he stepped up to contribute his part being a Software Developer and participated in various projects for the betterment of the ASR by building a fully functional ASR training software. Now he is expanding his career working with IVR systems and other software projects.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering Daffodil International University.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Table Tennis, Hill Tracking, Coding, Nature, Ocean, Music, Games

Favorite Food

Kacchi Biriani, Chinese Cuisine, Thai Food, Local Spicy Food

Motto

Living is better than to just Survive!

Career

He started his career as a programmer. Throughout the journey of his career, he worked for many companies and worked on many projects successfully. He has good skills in Java, JS, Python, ReactJs, Angular and many more languages and frameworks and now works as a full-stack developer.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Cricket, Football, Playing Card, Travelling

Favorite Food

Kacchi Biriani, Tehari, Pizza, Mango

Motto

Work until your signature becomes an autograph

Career

He started his career as a software engineer. After finishing his studies, he did an internship as a software engineer for 6 months. Then he joined at Hishab as a Fronted Developer

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Reading books, IB(International Bridge card game), Cricket, Football, Travelling

Favorite Food

Kacchi Biriani, Beef Bhuna, Fish, Sweets, Various types of pitha

Motto

Trying to refrain from doing things that harm others

Career

He has started his career as a Software Engineer in 2010. Throughout his career, he was fortunate to have the working experiences with the leading-edge technologies in different roles including Product Manager, System Analyst and Software Architect. In early 2020, he joined Hishab as the Dev Lead & Software Architect to help scale the organization with building up a microservice landscape.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Travelling, Reading Historical Novels

Favorite Food

Rice, Pulses, Beef, Dried Fish

Motto

Impact others by rectifying myself

Career

He started his career started at the University in gem4tech.com as a researcher. Before completing his graduation, he published 6 research papers and got the best research paper award from IC4ME2, IEEE, University of Rajshahi, 2019. After completing his B.Sc., he joined as an AI Engineer in NKSoft, Dallas, USA. Till now, he published 32 research papers and had 4 international best research paper awards from IEEE, Scopus, Springer, ACM respectively, 1 national BASIS ICT award-2019, Robi r-ventures champion award-2019. In 2018, he was the got 4th best position in National Math Olympic, Chittagong Division, and ranked 2nd in SUB-IUPC. He had also 2 thousand problem-solving skills as a competitive programmer. Now he is working in Hishab Ltd. as an AI researcher.

Academic Background

Master of Science in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Saarland University, Germany. Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Major in Neural Network and Statistical Learning, NSTU.

Nationality

Bangladesh

Hobby

Learning, doing math, and coding

Favorite Food

Biryani

Motto

‘Problem, Analyze, Math, and Code’

Career

He started his career as a Support Engineer (NOC) at an ISP. Later on, he worked as a System Administrator for several software companies before joining Hishab. He has four Red Hat Certifications.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science East West University; Achieved Dean's List Award. Master of Science North South University; 1 IEEE Publication.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Travelling, Cooking, Adventure Sports

Favorite Food

Kacchi Biriani, Tehari, Fuchka, Beef Vuna

Motto

A life spent helping others is a life filled with purpose

Career

He started his career in intellectual property as an IP Analyst and he specializes in Drafting & Prosecution of Patent applications. Throughout his career, he has helped R&D in safeguarding intellectual property interests by capturing innovations, strategies scope of filings, prosecuting patent applications over various jurisdictions and performing competitor’s patents analysis. He also carries an expertise in development of systems for IPR processes. He has also worked on many opposition assignments to avert probable risks due to competitor’s IP.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Law with Honours in Intellectual Property Law RGSOIPL, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Bachelor of Technology JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida.

Nationality

Indian

Hobby

Badminton, Cycling, Swimming.

Favorite Food

Punjabi dishes, Kerala style sea food, Bengali sweets.

Motto

Leave a mark.

Career

He started his software career as programmer with a defense sub-contractor for the Indian Army before moving to IT companies such as Polaris and Borland. His foray into banking domain started as an Assistant Manager in Citibank Singapore which evolved into a Vice-President role towards the end of his 8 years stint. Before joining Hishab, he spent 5 years as an Enterprise Security Architect for Maybank in Malaysia where he was instrumental in delivering the region’s first mobile soft-token, integrated bio-metric authentication, Issuer-based mobile wallet, etc.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunications) Mumbai University, India.

Nationality

India

Hobby

Cricket, Movies, Music

Favorite Food

Vada Pav

Motto

There is no substitute for intelligence, experience, common sense, and good taste. - Bjarne Stroustrup.

Career

He started his career as a ML engineer at Socian Ltd . Worked on various speech and nlp domain projects that includes asr,tts,sentiment analysis and chatbots. During this period he got to serve clients like Grameen phone, Gigatech ltd, Transcom ltd, Chinese aviation ministry and Hishab Ltd. After working at Socian ltd for 1 year and 8 months he joined Hishab Ltd as a Senior ML engineer in December,2020 . After joining Hishab he worked on asr systems for Hishab’s MFI and MSME domain and currently working on Voice banking project. His expertise domain is speech signal processing and NLP.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology .

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Watching anime, reading manga and gaming.

Favorite Food

Beef items

Motto

If there is 0.0.1% possibility of making things work, then grind until done.

Career

He has started his career as a Machine Learning Engineer in Hishab Ltd. During his study in undergrad level, he was involved directly in IEEE signal processing society and was Secretary of that Student Branch Chapter. During his academic career, he attended many international competitions like Signal Processing cup and Video and Image Processing cup. He did lots of projects and researches, mostly on Signal processing and Machine learning domain

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Swimming, Cycling, Football

Favorite Food

Ilish fish, Mejban, Borhani, Kacchi Biriani, Aflatoon, Fruit Custard.

Motto

Don’t wait for the impulse, prepare yourself.

Career

In 2014, he started his career at Sigtran Limited Software company Dhaka,Bangladesh as Executive (Finance and Account). He is engaged in maintaining the whole account section, keeping regular deal with clients and bank and also maintain the human resource of the office employee. In 2017 he joined Hishab Ltd. As Operation Executive, MFI

Academic Background

Postgraduate degree of Economics at Dhaka University, Bangladesh.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Traveling, Reading Book

Favorite Food

Bengali Food

Motto

I Believe honesty and hard work.

Career

In 2017 he started his career in Ordinary IT as a Trainer of Office Application, Graphics Design and Computer Networking(CCNA). In October 2018, he joined Hishab Limited as an Operation Executive (MFI)

Academic Background

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering University of Information Technology and Science (UITS). Diploma in Computer Technology Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Traveling, Cycling, Fishing, Gardening and Photography

Favorite Food

Beef Tehari, Kacchi Biriani and All kind of Bengali Food

Motto

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." -Albert Einstein

Career

Kallol started his career as a transcriber in Hishab Ltd. In his student life, besides his studies, he worked with Ekmattra Handicraft and Ranga communications per-timely. Kallol also volunteered some of the non-profitable organizations such as Ekmattra society, Ain O Shalis kendra, National Wall Magazine Council.

Academic Background

Diploma in Electrical Technology Mymensingh Polytechnic Institute. Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT).

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Doing Scatch, Craft, Alpana and Theater, watching movies, Listening Music and Audio story.

Favorite Food

The food that makes my mouth and mind feel good.

Motto

Do everything you want, but remember freedom and arbitrariness are not the same.

Career

In 2015, he started his career at SOA Associates, as Marketing Executive. In 2020, he joined HISHAB as a Transcriber.

Academic Background

Maple Leaf International School. O & A’ Level (Private Candidate) British Council.

Nationality

Maple Leaf International School. O & A’ Level (Private Candidate) British Council.

Hobby

Cricket, Basketball, Badminton.

Favorite Food

Chicken Roast, Kacchi Biryani, Chocolate Pastry.

Motto

If you believe, you can achieve.

Career

He started his career as a Freelance translator. He worked in different fields. Throughout his life, he kept his life simple in order to do the volunteer work that he needs to do to live as a Christian.

Academic Background

Higher Secondary School Certificate Mirpur Bangla College, Dhaka.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Fishing, Cricket, Collecting Coins, Singing, Learning Japanese Language

Favorite Food

All the food that my Mom Cooks & Sushi, Okonomiyaki, Biriyani, Tonjiru Ramen, Miso Soup

Motto

All things that you want others to do to you, you also must do it to others.

Career

He starting his career as audit supervisor to Mushi Muhit Haque & Co. Then, he moved as a professional accountant to CARE International (As a project JITA social Business Bangladesh Ltd for five years). Afterwards he moved to a consultancy firm as a manager finance named Change Associates ltd for three years. Later he began his journey in Hishab ltd.

Academic Background

CA Partly qualified from ICAB. LLB National University. Bachelor of Commerce and Honours in Accounting National University. Master of Commerce in Accounting National University.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Cricket, Reading book

Favorite Food

Any fruits, Beef Bhuna, Chicken fry and chotpoti.

Motto

Always learning

Career

She started her career in teaching profession. After completing her graduation, she started her job in Hishab Ltd. as a transcriber officer. Now, she is working as Accounts & Admin executive at Hishab Ltd.

Academic Background

Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting Dhaka City College.

Nationality

Bangladeshi

Hobby

Cooking, Story Reading, Nature.

Favorite Food

Don’t wait for the impulse, prepare yourself.

Motto

live and learn

Career

He first joined Recruit Co., Ltd. and worked in both business and corporate office over 18 years. In 2005, he joined IMJ Group, back then listed company in Japan, and later promoted to CFO in 2008. In 2012, he founded IMJ Investment Partners, a corporate venture capital arm of IMJ group, and began investment in startups in Japan and Silicon Valley. Subsequently in 2013, he spun off the company to Singapore in order to capture the investment opportunity in fast growing SEA region. At the same time, he started managing investors` funds and as the fund management business has grown over time, he carried out MBO and re-branded the company as Spiral Ventures Pte. Ltd., where he serves as the CEO and the Managing Partner as of today.

Academic Background

Kobe University, Japan.

Nationality

Japanese

Hobby

Traveling, bathing in a hot spring and playing with my sons

Favorite Food

Sushi,BBQ

Motto

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Career

He has experience in M&A-related finance and other areas at the Corporate Planning Office of Livin' on the EDGE Co., Ltd.(later known as livedoor Co.,Ltd.). At DeNA Co., Ltd., he was responsible for both the investor relations and corporate planning departments, and led the management accounting and reassignment to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. After returning to Livedoor Corporation, he was responsible for building the organization after the spin-off, including setting up the administration department. As General Manager of the Corporate Planning Department at Infoteria Corporation (currently ASTERIA Corporation), he was responsible for investor relations, overseas business development including M&A of US companies, and capital increase. After serving as a director of a subsidiary in China, he has experience as a CFO of a start-up company, increasing capital and building the organization. In 2016, He invested in Hishab as angel investor.

Academic Background

International School of Dusseldorf e.V. Faculty of Law, Chuo University

Nationality

Japanese

Hobby

Soccer, Watching movie, Reading books, Drinking with friends,

Favorite Food

Sushi

Motto

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

Career

She started her career as a female regular position at AIG. She has participated in the world's first Internet World Expo (Internet World Expo '96). After working for 3DCG software development at ExpressionTools, Inc, , she joined livedoor Co.,Ltd. as a new business development and secretary to the president. She was in charge of human resources and compliance in the Corporate Planning Office. Since 2010, she has been a member of the Business Administration Department at the Corporate Headquarters of Asteria Corporation. In 2016, She invested in Hishab as angel investor. Since January 2020, she has been an advisor and founder at Toposware, a blockchain development company.

Academic Background

Shokei University

Nationality

Japanese

Hobby

Oil painting, vocal music, wool felt making, Literature (works published in Japanese textbooks of junior highschool)

Favorite Food

Avocado

Motto

Less-is-more approach