Shahir Chowdhury
Founder of Shikho
Dhaka
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2021 - Current
🚀 Building the future of education for over 100 million Bengali-speaking learners. Education in Bangladesh has been broken for too long: too expensive, too outdated, and out of reach for millions. We’re fixing that. Shikho is making high-quality learning accessible, affordable, and personal by using technology, AI, and deep insights into how students learn. But students aren’t the only ones who need better tools. We’re also building solutions for teachers, schools, and all the people who make education work. This isn’t just about online learning, it’s about giving every learner and educator the tools to succeed in a digital world. 🌍 Backed by some of the best venture investors: Learn Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Anchorless Bangladesh, DSG Consumer Partners, Black Kite Capital, Goodwater Capital, Sturgeon Capital, and Sajida Foundation. Supported by operators like Ankur Nagpal (Teachable) and Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve). 🏆 Featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia. We’re just getting started.
Director, Private Banker
2020 - 2021
Advise and manage a portfolio of UK HNW clients across Surrey, Sussex and London with a focus on entrepreneurs, business owners and financial professionals.
Oversees relationships with the venture capital community and connects their portfolio companies to the right people at HSBC.
Vice President, Wealth Manager
2018 - 2020
Private banker for UK high net worth individuals with a focus on financial professionals and non domiciled residents.
Vice President, Lead Finance Business Partner
2016 - 2018
Manage the UK Private Bank and Private Client Services Finance Business Partner team, providing strategic and commercial decision support and analytics to the Wealth and Investments Executive and Management Committees and senior sales management.
Assistant Vice President, Treasury Advisory
2015 - 2016
Strategic advisory partner in matters related to balance sheet management and the optimisation of financial resources (liquidity, funding, capital and risk appetite).
Assistant Vice President, Reporting & Analytics
2014 - 2015
Business performance reporting and analytics manager for the global Wealth & Investment Management portfolio of businesses (UK, EMEA, Asia and the US).
Assistant Vice President, Finance Business Partner
2014 - 2014
Finance Business Partner for the UK Private Bank: Special Focus, Financial Institutions Group and Key Client businesses.
Senior Analyst, Finance Business Partner
2012 - 2014
Analyst looking at the global "Key Clients & Family Offices" (Ultra High Net Worth) business proposition for the Wealth Management division of Barclays.
Finance Graduate Leadership Programme
2010 - 2012
*September 2010 to March 2011 Finance Business Partner for the UK Retail Bank, Direct Channels (Digital, Telephony & Intermediary Banking). *March 2011 to September 2011 Finance Business Partner for the Wealth & Investment Management division, Global Research & Investments (GR&I). *October 2011 to May 2012 Analyst for Barclays Investment Bank, Product Control - Fixed Income Rates Trading and Strategic Portfolio.
Internee, Global Markets
2010 - 2010
Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.
Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.