Khobaib Chowdhury
Dhaka
Summary
Data-driven business leader bringing expertise in business strategies, tech products, and growth. 8+ years of startup leadership experience in creating direct and meaningful impacts on people’s lives, in a high-energy, AI-driven, and disruptive environment.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
VP of Strategy, Finance, and Business Operations
JaduPC
11.2023 - Current
- Establish control of business finances and balance sheets
- Drive strategic initiatives that align with the company’s financial and operational angles, and implement growth strategies
- Implement operation SOP and reporting that will ensure efficiency and effectiveness
- Facilitate recruitment in the operation to develop a proper procurement-to-distribution model
- Collaborate with the leadership to set operational strategies and OKRs, and convert OKRs into actionable plans
Business Unit Head
Banglameds (EPharmacy of Chaldal)
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Owned the newly acquired online pharmacy business, including working capital, P&L, MIS, FS, and all business components
- Monthly budget approval and FS presentation to the CEO, designed 1-year business and financial plan to make the business EBITDA positive
- 100+ operation processes and SOPs deployment
- Implemented an efficient routing model to reduce delivery time by 40%.
- 40% MoM sales growth in 3 months, with 30% burn reduction; Sales dashboard design and implementation to increase telesales by 40% in 3 months
- Implementation of the tech product in the legacy Chaldal system, which included Identifying 3 major loopholes in the existing system and solving them with proper design flow
- AI-driven prescription upload system directly in the app
Head of Business (GM)
Mokam Fresh, Shopup
02.2021 - 07.2022
- Built the B2B perishable business from scratch to 16M USD annualized NMV in 9 months, with CM3 positive
- Built the management team and collaborated with the inter-team and regional business functions for cross-functional activities in a multinational environment
- Developed an automated data-driven sales recommendation model which helped sales prediction, efficient sourcing, and increased profitability, to reach CM3 positive.
- Owned the working capital (8+ crore bdt), MIS, OKRs, P&L, and SOPs
- Monthly budget planning and getting approval from the CBO
- Hiring-manager role to recruit management people
- Developed a customized cash flow management system that reduced the money management problem to 0, in a cash-heavy business environment
- Added the JIT order feature in the app which was connected to the supply chain directly, to reduce perishable product damage to less than 0.5%
- Developed a tracker to improve sales team performance, from 6.5k bdt/day to 32k bdt/day within 4 months
Founder and CEO
Styline
01.2015 - 01.2020
- Founded Bangladesh’s first modest fashion e-commerce marketplace Styline (a Founder Institute graduate company), 200K USD local-fundraising
- 300K+ parcels delivered, 70K+ customer-base. 2019 revenue was 500K+ USD
- Owned the P&L, top-line (revenue, profit), bottom-line (efficiency, burn), recruitment, and financial processes. Led the leadership team, MIS, and OKRs
- Developed the Styline app and website, a product used by 100k+ monthly users.
- Predictive sales engine for future stock, AI implementation (Recommendation engine with supervised learning) for placement of different products to different groups of customers, pattern-matching based on spending total, time, product purchased, and type of spending
- Built the back-office system called 'Styline Ops360' which was used by the sales, operation, and accounting team.
- Retail expansion - 4 experience stores in 3 different cities.
- Selected by Alibaba (China) and MaGIC (Malaysia) for their on-site accelerator program
Founder and Lead Software Architect
Tech Fiesta
01.2014 - 01.2015
- Founded a full-stack software firm to provide end-to-end software solutions for local and foreign clients.
Software Developer
Individual Contractor
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Top-5% mobile app developer badge.
Mobile Application Developer
Samsung R&D
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Android and Samsung Feature phone OS.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology
Dhaka, BangladeshSkills
- Organizational Development
- Operations Management
- Corporate Communications
- Product Management
- Leadership and team building
- Strategic Planning
- New Business Development
- Growth Strategies
- Big Data Analytics
- Problem-Solving
- Analytical Thinking
Accomplishments
- Nov 2018: Alibaba E-founder Fellow Asian chapter; I was selected as the nextGen 40 top Asian founders and was invited to meet Jack Ma and the Alibaba founding team. We had a 2-weeks of extreme leadership learning.
- Dec 2016: Graduated from Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Centre (MaGIC) MAP cohort 3 accelerator program as the founder of Styline.
- October 2016: Invited by FounderX to their VIP event in Silicon Valley as the top 50 graduates from Founder Institute.
- May 2015: Founder Institute graduate, Dhaka chapter as the founder of Styline.
- 2003-2011: Ranked in the top 100 in ACM Coding (UVA Online Judge).
- 2004-2008: Participated & ranked 4 times (including 1st runner-up & 4th position) in ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Programming Contest.
- 2004: Selected to participate in Poland's 17th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).
- 2002 and 2003: National Math Olympiad Winners - 2 times.
Certification
- Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy
- Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap
- Chatgpt for project managers: 10x your productivity with AI
Tech, travel, and sports.
Retire from work at 45, buy a yacht, and travel the world.
References
- Dr. Md. Kaykobad, Ex-Professor, Dept. of CSE, BUET, mkbd1234@yahoo.com
- Sujayath Ali, CBO, Shopup PTE. LTD., sujayath@shopup.org
Timeline
VP of Strategy, Finance, and Business Operations
JaduPC
11.2023 - Current
Business Unit Head
Banglameds (EPharmacy of Chaldal)
05.2023 - 08.2023
Head of Business (GM)
Mokam Fresh, Shopup
02.2021 - 07.2022
Founder and CEO
Styline
01.2015 - 01.2020
Founder and Lead Software Architect
Tech Fiesta
01.2014 - 01.2015
Software Developer
Individual Contractor
01.2012 - 01.2013
Mobile Application Developer
Samsung R&D
01.2011 - 01.2012
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology
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