WBS Full-time MBA Talent Profiles 2023

Arifur (Mishu) Rahman linkedin.com/in/arifur-rahman-mishu

■ Career history: Product Manager, Hishab Technologies Ltd, Bangladesh Senior Manager - Digital Services, SSD-TECH, Bangladesh Manager - 3G and 4G VAS, Robi Axiata Ltd, Bangladesh Product Manager, SSD-TECH, Bangladesh ■ Education highlights: MBA, Warwick Business School, UK BURP, Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh Advanced Certificate for Management Professionals (ACMP), Management, Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Dhaka University, Bangladesh

■ Nationality: Bangladeshi

■ Languages:

Bangla (native) English (fluent) Hindi (native)

■ Career achievements: Prioritised revenue linked feature shipping for the microfinance domain of the start-up, Hishab. Company target was to raise 33% of 2022-23 opex from revenue. Established monetary impact framework for products that boosted sales success rate to 33% from 10%, resulting in securing US$2 million yearly revenue from four clients for the fiscal year. Led partnership development and marketing for the digital services division of SSD-TECH. Grew annual income from US$170,000 to US$24 million, by developing key partnerships in the SEA and APAC region with companies who had digital products with local demand in the Bangladesh market but lacked presence. Executed the transition of the digital services SBU from a dying telecom business unit towards a Mobile Financial Services (MFS) focused division. Secured partnership with the largest MFS who had 50 million accounts. There was an 88% decline in revenue from telecoms by 2018 but 86% of the total SBU revenue was protected and shifted to MFS.

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