Ehsanul Kabir,  Senior Vice President:

Mr. Ehsanul Kabir, Senior Vice President is an MBA from the University of Wales, UK. He has been working with CRAB Ltd since 2007. He has performed several rating assignments including rating of insurance companies, financial institutions, projects etc.

He has 7 years of experience in financial institutions & insurance sector.

Mr. Nur Elahee Molla joined CRAB Ltd as a Financial Analyst in April 2007 and is now working as Sr. Assistant Vice President and Unit Head of Corporate & SME Ratings from April 2016. He completed his BBA & MBA from Department of Finance, University of Dhaka. He has passed CFA Level 1 Exam. He is working as an expert in rating of Corporate, SME, Project and Bonds. He has also exposure in the rating work of Commercial Banks (Local & Multinational), FIs, Life & Non-Life Insurance Companies and Micro Finance Institutions. He was also actively involved in development of different rating methodology and Industry reports.

Nur received training on “Infrastructure/Project Finance Rating” arranged by Asian Development Bank (ADB) & Association of Credit Rating Agencies in Asia (ACRAA) held in Bangkok, Thailand, in July 2011; Training on “Rating Methodology & Framework” arranged by Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh Ltd conducted by Vice President of Indian Credit Rating Agency (ICRA) in 2010. He has also participated in various other training programs and workshops during the last 15 years. He has also exposure as Internal Trainer to develop the knowledge base of Analyst Team related to Industry, Rating and Due Diligence.

Prior to joining CRAB, He has Working experience as an Internship in Bangladesh Bank.

Mir Arif Billah has been working in Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh Ltd. since 2006. Currently he is one of the Unit Heads of Project Rating and Assistant Vice President. He is an MBA in Accounting major from the University of Dhaka.

In the last decade, he has been involved in credit rating in various industries viz. Bank, Insurance, MFI, different Manufacturing and Service Sector. Financial Modeling, Forecasting and Risk Assessment is his core task in Project Rating. He also developed Project Rating Methodology. He also engaged in various consultancy work with foreign and local development partner. Under this wing, he was a team leader in consultancy work with IFC – Country Business Dashboard Project. of Dhaka.

He has completed more than 400 Credit Rating assignments in different sectors. He also conducted several internal and external trainings in Project Finance and Microsoft Excel.

Tahmina Islam, Assistant Vice President:

Ms. Tahmina Islam, Assistant vice Presidentis an MBA from Dept. of Finance & Banking, Dhaka University. She has been working with CRAB Ltd since 2006, and performed several rating assignments including rating of financial institutions.

She has experience in manufacturing and service sector.

Prior to joining CRAB, Ms. Shahtaj worked in a multinational telecommunication company and a nationalized commercial bank

Rahnuma Sultana, is an MBA and BBA from Department of Finance, University of Dhaka.  She is currently working with Entity and Client Rating of various corporations and industries.

She has worked with the Trust Bank Limited and City Bank Limited. In addition to that, she worked as an Executive, Finance in Orient Group. She has received training on Credit Rating arranged by ICRA and participated in several workshops and conferences.

He has joined in CRAB as a Financial Analyst in 2010 after completing Chartered Accountancy (CA) course from Hoda Vasi Chowdhury & Co, Chartered Accountants, Chittagong – an independent correspondent firm to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. He has also obtained International Masters in Business Administration (IMBA) in Finance and Masters in Business Studies (MBS) in Accounting earlier.
During Article ship, experiences gathered regarding Finalization of Annual Accounts, Interim Accounts, Statutory and Internal Audit, Special Audit & Investigations, Physical Cash & Inventory verification, Preparation of Long Form Report (LFR), Special Inventory Report, Determination of Net Worth, Valuation of Fixed Assets & Goodwill in various reputed Local and Multi-national Companies of Garments & Textile Sector, Fuel, Gas, Power & Fertilizer Sector, Private Export Processing Zone, Medical & Pharmaceuticals Sector ,Bank & Financial Sector, Steel Sector, Tax & VAT Issues etc.
Since joining, he has been managing a large portfolio of corporate clients mostly existing in Chittagong Division. The portfolio contains different business entities i.e. RMG sector with backward and forward linkage, Large Manufacturing companies of Steel, Consumer Items, Pharmaceuticals; Construction & Civil works, Trading houses; ICD’s; etc. A number of project rating reports have already been done by him so far.

Munir Uddin Ahmed,  is an MBA from Department of Finance, East West University.He completed BBA from International Islamic University, Chittagong.He has joined CRAB Limited as a “Financial Analyst” in July 2010. He is currently working with Entity and Client Rating of various corporations and industries.

Before joining CRAB, he worked in Building Technology & Ideas Ltd (bti) as a Senior  Executive

Mr. Rakib Hasan Aziz, Financial Analyst and Team Leader is an MBA and BBA from the University of Rajshahi. He has been working with CRAB since 2015 and performed several rating assignments including Construction & Engineering, Real Estate, Bricks Field, Trading, Feed Mills, Rice Bran oil Mills, Jute Mills, Rice Mills, Flour Mills, Textile & Weaving Factory, Cold Storage etc.
He has gathered an extensive knowledge as well as expertise in the field of SME and corporate business specifically in North Zone.

Tabassum Taposhy was also former Head of Corporate Affairs of “Voice of Business”, the first and only business magazine published by the students of faculty of Business Studies, University of Dhaka. She also worked in various youth organizations. she has completed a professional training on leadership from BYLC and participated in different business competitions. Recently I have received Bronze Award from Duke of Edinburgh.

Mohammad Nayeem Us Saleheen joined CRAB as Research Associate in April, 2017. He has completed his MBA from Chittagong University & BBA from Premier University concentrating in Finance. He completed his internship in foreign exchange department of Southeast Bank Limited. He was the former finance secretary of Premier University Debating Society (PUDS) and organized several national debate festivals. He also participated in various national debate & brainstorming competitions.

Estiak Ahmed Onim joined CRAB as a Research Associate from December 2018. He completed his BBA from East West University with concentrating in Finance. Prior to joining CRAB, Estiak Ahmed Onim worked in a leading brokerage house in trade and business development section.

Fahmida Rahman joined CRAB as a Research Associate from December 2018. She completed her MBA and BBA from United International University (UIU) with concentrating in Finance. She work as an intern in CRAB.

Mahin Ahmed joined CRAB as a Research Associate from December 2018.He has completed his MBA from University of Dhaka majoring in Banking & Insurance and BBA from United International University (UIU) with concentrating in Finance where he has achieved Summa Cum Laude Award for his outstanding academic performance. Before joining CRAB, he worked as a Lecturer at New Model University College, in Department of Finance & Banking; and served as an Executive at EVINCE Group, in Department of Internal Audit & Compliance. Also, he was involved in Freelancing activities.
Apart from this, He has practical specialization in Credit Rating & Credit Risk Assessment with useful skills in financial statement analysis, financial modeling in Microsoft excel and Industry research.

As a Research Associate, in December 2018 Md. Imrul Kayesh Chowdhury joined in Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh. Having earned his bachelor’s degree (BBA) in Accounting from University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh and also earned master’s degree (MBA) in Finance from State University of Bangladesh. Mr. Imruls desire is to be one of the most successful professionals in a highly reputed & progressive organization to utilize his educational knowledge for achieving organizational goals and developing his career. Thus, in 2017 he hired for the position of Assistant Accounts Officer in Cosmo Group (Cosmo Synthetic). After resign Cosmo he also joined in August 2018, as a senior business teacher in Paradise International School.

His working area involved in the financial analysis which assigns by Rating department including various types of trading businesses, Developer Firms, Brickfield, Filling station, Jute mill, Rice mill, Medical Institute, and Fisheries, etc. which regarding the fields of SME and corporate business in the northern area of Bangladesh.

Md. Samiul Alam has been working with CRAB as Research Associate since December 2018. He has completed his graduation from the University of Rajshahi with major in Accounting Information System.

Before joining in CRAB, He has worked as Assistant Manager-Finance in a Freight Forwarding Company named “ANBE FREIGHT LIMITED” from December 2016 to November 2018.

He has also worked in “Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited” as an Officer from March 2011 to August 2016.

During his service period at CRAB, he has gathered an enormous knowledge about the credit rating report of different types of Trading Business, Weaving and Textile Firms, Construction Firms, Jute Industries, Brick Fields, etc

Nahid Afroz has joined CRAB as Research Associate in December 2018. She completed BBA and MBA, both major in Finance, from the University of Chittagong. She has also been enrolled at the Islamic Online University of Malaysia in Certificate in Islamic Banking and Economics. Since her joining, she has participated in rating of several concerns, most of the construction, shipping and fishing industry.

Before joining CRAB, she has been engaged in organizing different events of Department of Finance and several association of alumnus. Apart from her professional career, she is engaged in academic research. Her research area focuses on Islamic finance, micro-finance, and development studies with specific interest on Islamic securities (Sukuk), Islamic microfinance, and financial inclusion. She has a few publications in local and international platform and experience of joining several international conferences as paper presenter.

Farah Marjan joined CRAB as Research Associate in the Credit Rating Department in July 2018. She has completed her MBA from North South University (NSU) majoring in Marketing and BBA from East West University (EWU) majoring in Accounting. Before joining CRAB, she worked as Assistant Research Officer in the Credit Risk Management Division of IDLC Finance Limited, in the Industry & Equity Research Team. She completed training on Basic Banking Operations conducted by Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management (BIBM) and Beginners to Advanced Excel Training conducted by BDJOBS.Com.

Mr Monem Ahmed is a Research Associate of CRAB. He joined at CRAB in 2017. He has completed his MBA and BBA from East-West University, majoring in Finance. Before joining CRAB he has completed his internship at a private bank.

His previous experience includes different types of milling businesses, trading businesses, weaving firms, construction firms, Real estate firms, brick field, filling stations etc.in Northern zone of Bangladesh.