Managing Director
SEAF Team
Asia
Asif joined SEAF as Managing Director for SEAF Bangladesh Ventures in May 2017. His responsibilities include managing a diverse portfolio of funds and assisting in raising new funds for Bangladesh Ventures. He is the founder and Chairman of ADN Group, one of the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) business organizations in Bangladesh. Asif started his first venture in 1990. Today, he has 30 years of experience in ICT and technology through his numerous start-ups, all of which are now established corporations. He helped build the country’s first workforce of IT engineering in early 1990’s and his work with ICT has made inroads for global technology giants like Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Oracle in Bangladesh. He is an active member of the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry, the Korea-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Wireless Internet Broadband Association, the Bangladesh Association of Call Centre & Outsourcing and the Internet Service Providers’ Association of Bangladesh. Asif holds a B.Sc. in Engineering from NIT Durgapur, India and has attended many executive development programs in leadership, Strategy, Negotiation, Governance in many countries around the world.