Sameer Ahmad

Founder

Sameer Ahmad is an investment banker with 28 years of experience in Europe, the Middle East, Emerging Africa and South East Asia. He started his career in Kidder Peabody, subsequently UBS, in the EM team in London. He then moved to Global Emerging Markets, a boutique investment bank specializing in EM out of London. He then moved to Bangladesh and set up the structured finance unit of Industrial and Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited (IIDFC). He was a treasury consultant with the PriceWaterhouseCoopers team restructuring Agrani Bank before establishing RSA Capital.

Sameer has established himself as one of the leading investment bankers in Bangladesh by launching the first ever zero coupon bond, the first step down syndicated loan facility, the first ever unsecured international term loan facility for a microfinance institution and the world’s first micro-credit securitization, the first ever variable rate subordinated domestic convertible bond as Tier 2 Capital with international participation in the Bangladesh market.

He is a Director of IPDC Finance Limited as well as the Chairman of the Executive Committee. He also sits on the board of Guardian Life Insurance Company.

Sameer Ahmad currently is the Chairman and the Chief Executive of RSA Capital (DIFC), a DIFC company duly regulated by DFSA to operate similar activities as RSA Capital Bangladesh. Using the DIFC office RSA is expanding its footprint in the MENA and other regions.

K Mahmood Sattar

Chairman, RSA Advisory

Kazi Mahmood Sattar has over 40 years of banking experience, mostly with international banks. He started his career with ANZ Grindlays Bank as a Management Trainee in 1981. In his overseas stint, he spent one year in Mumbai as a Corporate Dealer with Treasury. He also worked more than two years in Melbourne, Australia as Manager Corporate Banking. He underwent extensive training in investment banking and successfully established Bangladesh’s first Investment Banking Arm/Corporate Finance Unit. He took over as Head of Corporate and Investment Banking Division of ANZ Grindlays Bank in Bangladesh in 1995.

He led two large domestic commercial banks as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. While heading two large old-fashioned banks, he successfully modernized them by reorganization, modernization, implementation of state of art IT system and converted the culture and business to compete with the international banks in the country.

Until recently he was an Independent Director and Chairman of the Board Executive Committee of BRAC Bank Limited. Alongside his responsibility as the Chairman of RSA Advisory Limited a boutique Investment Bank, he is currently the Chairman of Blue Wealth Assets Limited and IPDC Finance Limited, one of the leading NBFIs in Bangladesh.

Hiren Singharay

Senior Advisor

Hiren Singharay has a long and outstanding career in executive functions, working for four different Banks in three different countries across Asia and Europe. He pioneered and led ground-breaking new business activities for Banks: starting with State Bank of India venturing into corporate lending to German clients, later on Citibank moving in to unexplored territories of Eastern Europe, Africa and South Asia.

In his role in Citibank’s Capital Markets area, he was involved in Mergers & Acquisitions, developing wider investor base. In 2001, he was headhunted by Standard Chartered Bank to lead corporate finance and syndications businesses mainly in Africa, Middle East and South Asia, which he led for next 14 years.

Both as an executive and later as a Supervisory Board Member, he was adept in coaching people, which led to his love for leadership development. He has been a regular panellist and speaker at various Conferences (IFR, GTR, London Loan Market Association, Afeximbank etc) across the world.

Currently, Hiren is Senior Adviser of RSA Capital (DIFC), a DIFC company duly regulated by DFSA.

Faisal A Rehman

CEO, MENA Region

Faisal Rehman began his career in 1999 with Citibank N.A. with focus on developing client relationships, profiling of clients, understanding client needs and offer appropriate products.

Subsequently he served in Standard Chartered Bank, Bahrain as Head of Priority Banking; in EFG Bank Bahrain, responsible for building the private banking business of Ultra HNI and Institutional clients in the Middle East Region; in Bank Sarasin Alpen (Bahrain) BSC as Director; in BSI Bank Bahrain, with focus on developing UNHW clients in GCC and South Asia; in Intesa Sanpaolo Private Bank Suisse Morval with responsibility of creating and development of new business segment, managing the clients introduced by EAM/BI, develop UHNW clients in GCC mainly of South Asian diaspora.

Thereafter, he joined RSA Capital DIFC in 2022, and is currently the CEO of MENA Region.

Md. Farhad Ahamed

Head of Fixed Income & Equities

Farhad Ahamed, the Head of Fixed Income & Equities, is a passionate investment professional with more than nine years of experience in investment management and research in Bangladesh. He possesses large spectrum of knowledge in financial markets, asset valuation, financial modeling and macroeconomic analysis. Currently, working in a team who has executed over USD 500 million of private and public capital raising and all aspects of business valuation and other advisory transactions, including buy side, sell side, and business formation. He started his career with RACE Management PCL, the largest private Asset Management Company in Bangladesh with asset size of USD 250 million, as a Research associate.