Founder



Zubair Ahmed
FOUNDER & CEO (Chief Executive Officer)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 UniversityNationality
BangladeshiHobby
Skate Boarding, Table Tennis, Golf, Long drive, Ocean, NatureFavorite Food
Sashimi, Sushi, Nama Oyster, Sea Urchin, Kacchi Biriani, Tehari, Sangyapsol, Kaki SoupMotto
Knowing is NOT doing


Michael Schmitz
CO - FOUNDER & CTIO (Chief Technology Innovation Officer)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, GermanyNationality
GermanHobby
Digital, analog games, sports, musicFavorite Food
All kinds of vegan curry!Motto
"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them." (Albert Einstein)


Mio Ahmed
CO-FOUNDERCareer
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
JapaneseHobby
Travel, ExerciseFavorite Food
RamenMotto
One life, live it.


Mohammad Fayadan Hossain
CO-FOUNDERCareer
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
Bachelor of International Business North South University, BangladeshNationality
BangladeshiHobby
Outdoor adventures such as Cycling, Driving, Scuba Diving, meeting new people and listening to storiesFavorite Food
Fried Chicken, Fried Rice, Nasi Goreng, Chicken Biryani, Kacchi Biryani, Sushi, Sashimi and steaksMotto
Vision without execution is hallucinationTech



Md. Sarwar Kamal
HEAD OF ENGINEERINGCareer
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
BangladeshiHobby
Travelling, Reading Historical NovelsFavorite Food
Rice, Pulses, Beef, Dried FishMotto
Impact others by rectifying myself


Raghavendra Prasad
PATENT LAWYERCareer
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
IndianHobby
Badminton, Cycling, Swimming.Favorite Food
Punjabi dishes, Kerala style sea food, Bengali sweets.Motto
Leave a mark.


Anik Kumar Saha
PRODUCT MANAGERCareer
Anik started his career as a Test Analyst in IBM India. Over the years he has built up a strong knowledge in understanding test processes, implementation and Automation Testing. Domain Knowledge across Banking, Airline, Retail, American Union System, Payment systems is his forte. Throughout his short 6+ years of Career, he has been striving hard to deliver software quality without any compromise.Academic Background
B.Tech in Information Technology from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, IndiaNationality
IndianHobby
Cycling, Investing,Travelling, GardeningFavorite Food
Sorse Ilish,Luchi Aloor Dum, Aloo Posto,Rice with Mutton Curry, Butter Chicken with Tanduri Roti,Chola Kulcha, Bhetki- Fish KabirajiMotto
U will Achieve it, If you can believe it! For the achievers, Sky's the Limit.


Arifur Rahman
PRODUCT MANAGERCareer
Mishu started his career as an Urban Planner Specializing in GIS mapping. In his early days he worked in two major government projects in Bangladesh as GIS expert. He then pivoted towards music production and distribution and started working in a dual role as Marketing Manager and Audio Production Engineer at a indie music label, Incursion Music. He later joined Radio Foorti, the leading FM channel in Bangladesh. In 2015, he got picked up by an IT company, SSD-TECH and joined as a product manager. He worked in Telecom domain business and eventually became a mid level manager who led the digital transformation of the product portfolio. He also worked as a 3G & 4G VAS Manager at Robi Axiata Limited, the 2nd largest telecom in Bangladesh. Later he re-joined SSD-TECH as a senior manager and managed the digital services portfolio including telecom, payment, gaming and edu-tech products. He joined Hishab as Product Manager on April 2021. Mishu’s product portfolio includes names like Ghoorilearning, BeatMyTeam, BBC Janala, Grameenphone Voice Chat, Music IVR 2008, Lifestyle IVR 2580, Chakribazar, Rutiruji.Academic Background
BURP, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), ACMP, IBANationality
BangladeshiHobby
Guitar Playing, Audio Engineering, TravelFavorite Food
Rice, Mashed Potato, Egg FryMotto
Take Risks, don’t do nothing and die


Tareq-Al-Muntasir
Head of NLPCareer
Tareq started his career in his startup, where he helped businesses derive actionable insights from data by applying natural language processing. He has experience working in the entire stack of a machine learning system. He has deployed several ASR, and text analysis systems for Bangla, Chinese and Burmese. He is very passionate about speech recognition and dialogue systems, especially for low resource languages.Academic Background
BSc, Ahsanullah University of Science and TechnologyNationality
BangladeshiHobby
Cooking, travellingFavorite Food
Beef bhuna, Kacchi biriyaniMotto
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything newBusiness Development



Yuto Nakamura
MANAGER OF BIZ DEV & CORPORATE PLANNINGCareer
In his first year of university, he participated in a program to develop practical problem-solving skills through consulting with Bangladesh's international NGO. He also worked in Bangladesh local EdTech Company as a business development intern. He participated in the launch of the Japanese Academy and contributed to the expansion of robot schools for kids in Bangladesh.Academic Background
Bachelor of Language and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesNationality
JapaneseHobby
Music, Books, Travel, SoccerFavorite Food
Ramen, Suchi, BiriyaniMotto
Constant dropping wears away a stone.Advisors



Christoph Voigt
ADVISORCareer
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
GermanHobby
Travelling, Gaming, Sports, NatureFavorite Food
Tajine with lamb and plumMotto
Take your time to understand. Then act.


Thomas Fossum Anderssen
ADVISORCareer
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
NorwegianHobby
PokerFavorite Food
KompeMotto
If you chase two rabbits, you catch none


Thorsten Engelbrecht
ADVISORCareer
Thorsten has been a consultant and project manager for enterprise business process management (BPM) for over 15 years in various roles. He joined a small consulting company already during his studies and stayed after the company was acquired by a large BPM software vendor in Germany. In 2009 the establishment of a new subsidiary drew Thorsten to work overseas in Australia for two years. Coming back to Germany in 2011 he decided to work as a freelance consultant, until he joined Hishab in 2020.Academic Background
Diploma degree in Business Studies and Economics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (university), GermanyNationality
GermanHobby
Gaming, ReadingFavorite Food
The diversity of good local food, best found on recommendations by a local friend. But since the occasions for that are rather rare I also settle for a good medium steak, ‘Currywurst’, plum dumplings, pancakes or a mushroom risotto.Motto
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” (Abraham Lincoln)


Mika Furukawa
HR ADVISORCareer
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 UniversityNationality
JapaneseHobby
Oil painting, vocal music, wool felt making, Literature (works published in Japanese textbooks of junior highschool)Favorite Food
AvocadoMotto
Less-is-more approach


Atsushi Nagatoshi
ADVISORCareer
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 UniversityNationality
JapaneseHobby
Soccer, Watching movie, Reading books, Drinking with friends,Favorite Food
SushiMotto
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

