Authors:
Gulam Samdani
Gulam (aka “Sam”) Samdani, PhD, is a scholar and engineer by education, and a management consultant by profession. Based in New Jersey, USA he enjoys the privilege of testing new strategic ideas while providing confidential advisory service to the top management of many multinational chemical, pharmaceutical and petroleum companies as well as government agencies and NGOs as an industry expert at McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Yale University, USA, and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, USA
Habibullah N. Karim
Habibullah N.Karim is the founder and CEO of Technohaven Company Ltd., a software and IT services firm based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is also the founding secretary general and a past president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS.org.bd). Karim was the Convener of the Working Group of the ICT Policy Review Committee in 2008 which drafted the Bangladesh ICT Policy 2009. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Yale University, USA and attended an Executive Program at Stanford University, USA
Quamrul Mina
Quamrul Mina is a software entrepreneur and CEO of Pragma Systems, an infrastructure and security software company, based in Austin, Texas, USA. Pragma’s flagship software achieved the distinction of holding the US Govt/DoD Approved Product List (APL) status in 2011. An accomplished software architect and developer, he was a principal designer of several commercially successful networking products used worldwide for IBM, Tivoli, HP/Tandem and Novell where he led large software teams to build many key products. He has a BA in Computer Science from Brandeis University, USA and MS in Computer Science from Rutgers University, USA.