Shamim Murad Email & Phone Number

Dhaka, Bangladesh

We envision vibrant rural economy driven by technology. Our mission is to enable farming communities with inclusive platform - Station8. Here, I am excited at Station8 with a mission on reaching technology to the farm community. We are elevated to have a highly skilled, experienced and dedicated team at Cultive8 Bangladesh. We have started providing our services to and partnering with very reputed organizations in Bangladesh. We are developing inclusive platforms for all the value chain actors, specially last mile farmers & retailers. We have also custom-made ERP solutions for large scale manufacturing companies who collect raw materials from last mile growers.

Dhaka

I got the opportunity to manage a highly qualified team of around sixty people including developers, remote sensing & GIS specialists, agronomists, and business graduates to lead large project of digital transformation for the company and the sector with a mission to increase productivity across the stakeholders. Project Fosholi Led 6.4 Million Euro Project IDSS, Intelligent Decision Support System, for the Farming Community as Team Leader in collaboration with public and private organizations from the Netherlands & Bangladesh. Partners included Nelen & Schuurmans, SarVision, SNV from Netherlands and DAE (Department of Agriculture Extension), Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh.  Launched the largest agronomy advisory platform, Fosholi, in South Asia with a subscription base of three hundred plus Crop Growing Farmers. In the first two years, the platform, Fosholi, generated leads of Agri-input valued 10 Million USD, disseminated 2 Million in app & SMS based text services and served queries of twenty thousand crop growing farmers.Project Rupali Led 0.5 Million USD Project Rupali for Aqua Farming Community as the Team Leader in collaboration with public and private organizations from the USA & Bangladesh. Partners included WorldFish, USAID, and DoF (Department of Fisheries), Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh.  Launched the largest advisory platform, Rupali, in Bangladesh with a subscription base of Ninety Thousand plus Farmers involved in Aquaculture. In the first year, the platform, Rupali, generated leads of aqua input valued 0.2 Million USD, disseminated .15 Million in app & SMS based text services and served queries of eight thousand farmers in aquaculture.Project Fosholi won the BASIS ICT Championship awards 2018 & APICTA Merit Award, 2018 back in Guangzhou, China. Besides the above two, I am leading two other projects Shonali & Khamari for the Poultry & Cattle growing Framers.

Dhaka

Led a highly energetic team of twelve people to delivery and develop  Winning projects with developments partners like Netherlands Space Office, USAID, IFC, WorlBank, and DFID. To mention project IDSS with NSO, project WEA with WINROCK & USAID. Led a highly energetic team of twelve people to delivery and develop  Market Insight of ACI Agribusiness SBUs - Seed, Fertilizer, Farm Mechanization & Animal Health Business  Launching Data Portal on Industry & macro-level Agricultural Input & Output Industry.

Dhaka

Led a highly talented team of six people to delivery and develop Analytics & Business Intelligence Market Research & Insight P&L evaluation and report to MD & CEO Designing BI Road-map

Dhaka

Led a highly talented team of three people to delivery and develop Consumer Insights, Pricing, Brand Health Equity & Product Development Introducing “Pay as You go” services for Data Market, as True Pay besides Post Pay and Prepay Hotspot Zone Establishment at Bashundhara City Complex

Dhaka

Significant Projects & Key Achievements: Product design and pricing Identifying business growth center as well as support designing Network Rollout Roadmap Segmentation of Bangladesh End-user Data Market Designing Brand Health Study, Touch point Tracking and Pricing Study for QUBEE Churn analysis Investor presentation, Trend analysis, Competition update, Market Insight Online Customer Satisfaction Survey Product analysis, new product design and CLTV Monitoring Data warehouse establishment for both internal & external data Implemented Geo-Marketing solution with ArcGIS

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Managing research projects throughout from identifying research question, right methodology, report writing and presentation to Clients from telco (Grameenphone, & Robi) and FMCG (Unilever, R&B, BAT, Marico, Nestle and ACI).Significant Projects & Key Achievements: Successfully lead 30+ research projects, at Nielsen Brand health tracking for Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi, Nestle, Rahimafrooz and Unilever. Usage and attitude analysis, Life style analysis, Concept test for GP, Banglalink, & Robi. Market size determination for A&E (Industry review of Thread market, RMG Sector) Mystery shopping for Financial institutes like SCB and EBL Developed, an ad tracking tool “FootPrint” Conjoint, Factorial and PCA application for product design and Price/Value study for Telco. National Media Survey

Dhaka

Support the local shippers of the international consignee as Wal Mart, Lindex AB, and SRG Imports. The main part of my job was to help them with load plan, account opening, shipping plan and also to prepare HBL, OBL for these local shippersThere I got the opportunity to learn Marine Transport Industry, and i loved that very much. But i had to surrender to my knack for research and instinct for numbers by choosing a career in market research with Nielsen.

Advanced Analytics For Management

Big Data Analytics: Strategic Issues And Managerial Responses

Certificate On "Leveraging Fintech", Fintech

Master Of Science (Msc), Statistics

Activities and Societies: Dhaka University Tourist Society Dhaka University Film Society

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Statistics

Activities and Societies: * Dhaka University Tourist Society; * Dhaka University Film Society; * Badhon

Hsc, Science, A+

Activities and Societies: Athletics, Debate, FootBall, Basket Ball