M Asif Rahman is an accomplished leader and entrepreneur who has been recognized with the prestigious TOYP 2022 Award. He has demonstrated exceptional leadership in fostering growth and development in the community and recently started as the founding President of JCI Dhaka Founders.

Asif’s entrepreneurial journey began in 2004 with the launch of his first initiative, ARCom, which serves as a testament to his innovative and forward-thinking mindset. Since then, he has been instrumental in the establishment and growth of over 25 pioneering companies, through his visionary leadership and strategic investments. His contributions to the business community have been widely recognized and have made a significant impact on the industry.

After Asif established ARCom in Bangladesh, he successfully expanded in the United States. In the next few years, he founded several businesses and invested in many, including Facebook, Leanplum, and Trance.

He has been described by The Daily Observer as a “Bangladeshi Serial Entrepreneur" and the ‘only successful global tech founder from Bangladesh’ by the local community.

As an entrepreneurial executive, Asif is the Founder of WPDeveloper, a software product company that is powering up more than 5 million websites with innovative software solutions. He is also the Founder of easyjobs, which solves and streamlines the recruitment process for 10,000 global companies.

Asif is also the Chairman of Geeky Social, Ex-CEO of weDevs, and Managing Partner of Analytify. He was the Director of Founder Institute, an idea-stage accelerator & startup launch program, as well as helped to empower youth at Future Startup as Director.

He has invested in Green Grocery for organic food, L’espresso for Coffee, Chalk Pencil for sustainable learning material for kids, safe food brand Protein Market, SMEVai for one-stop business & accounting solutions,s and more.

From his initial involvement with the IT section in 2004, pioneering the technology field and building one of the first software product companies from Bangladesh, Asif has continually been at the forefront of innovation in business and technology.

Among the fields in which he has been actively involved as founder, executive, board member, or investor are: software, media, IT service, consumer technology, agrotech, food, crowdsourcing, social networking, content marketing, analytics, and many others.

Asif is a regular speaker at international conferences and has been named the Top Investor and tech founder in Bangladesh.

He is well known in the business startup community for discovering and mentoring high-potential entrepreneurs and has been profiled for his ability to help other founders to grow their businesses, now also serving as a member of the Advisory Board at BASIS.