BOARD MEMBERS:
Kowser Ahmed
Kowser Ahmed (SEALA 10, Bangladesh) is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and corporate leader with expertise in artificial intelligence, digital commerce, cybersecurity, and business strategy. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The KOW Company, leading its growth into a globally recognized provider of AI-powered visual content and digital commerce solutions serving global brands. Under his leadership, The KOW Company received the ICT Trailblazer Award at The Daily Star ICT Awards 2024. Kowser also serves as Vice Chairman of The Cyber Triad Company and Board Member of StridesCo, a fast-fashion brand. A former Executive Committee Member and Board Member of BACCO, the leading industry body for BPO in Bangladesh, he actively invests in technology ventures spanning AI, enterprise software, and cybersecurity.
Kowser is a devoted family man and an avid golfer who believes leadership is driven by integrity, innovation, and lifelong learning.
Shamal Boyagoda
Shamal Boyagoda (SEALA 3, Sri Lanka) works as a Director for MAS Holdings, a multi-national apparel design to delivery world class apparel solution company based in Sri Lanka.
As the region’s major producer of intimate wear, the company shares a long-standing strategic partnership with leading global brands. Prior to this, Shamal was Director of Manufacturing, General Manager for Indonesia Operations, as well as Deputy General Manager for Manufacturing at MAS Intimates in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Shamal began his career at MAS Intimates in 2006, gaining experience in a variety of roles including production executive, business analyst, and operations manager.
His personal off work hours interests include exciting activities such as spending 20 days in Antarctica as part of Robert Swan’s international Antarctica expedition. Very much “Leadership at the Edge.”
Tanvir Haider Chaudhury
Tanvir Haider Chaudhury (SEALA 8, Bangladesh) has worked in the development sector, as an economist and as a senior banker with a multinational bank where he headed their distribution network, priority banking, and alternate delivery channels for six years and their transaction banking business for four years. For the last nine years, he has been the CEO of a fast-growing branded food company; whose product suite is the number one frozen food brand in Bangladesh. He occasionally contributes essays on contemporary issues to various periodicals.
Tanvir is an enthusiastic listener of different kinds of music and a voracious reader. He keenly follows cricket, tennis, and world geopolitics. He has a bachelor's degree in economics and an MBA, both from the University of Dhaka. He lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh with his wife, Eva Rahman, who is a senior banker.
Alok Datta
Alok Datta (SEALA 1, India) is a nindustry veteran in banking and financial services, consulting and outsourcing. His most recent venture, Alchemist Solutions, where he is CEO, provides technology-led business solutions to the US mortgage industry, blending deep domain expertise with new age technology. Currently based in USA, Alok has worked with organizations like Bank of America, GE and SLK, and has led operations, sales, transitions and quality. His wide experience with different professional sectors and geographies has given him unique perspectives on business management and networking.
Alok is married with two children. Family plays a very important role in his life, with most of his personal and professional decisions governed by family considerations.
Randhula de Silva
Randhula de Silva (SEALA 9, Sri Lanka) is dedicated to designing solutions that generate simultaneous economic, cultural, and ecological value. As Founder and Chair of Good Life X, she pioneers initiatives driving nature-positive economic growth across South Asia. Her cross-sectoral leadership includes previous roles as Chief Disruptor at GIZ Sri Lanka and founding CEO of Hatch Works.
Co-author of the THRIVE Canvas, she bridges futures strategies, innovation, and regenerative economics to transform traditional industries into future-proof models. Randhula integrates embodied leadership into ecosystem building and also operates as a multidisciplinary arts producer, fostering creative expression across fine arts, film, music, and literature.
Randhula holds a master’s in development studies and a bachelor’s in business economics from the University of Colombo. She was a CRISP Chevening Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Anun Dhawan
Anun Dhawan (SEALA 6, India) holds a BSc. Banking & Finance from the London School of Economics (External Programme) and has completed his MSc. Finance from Sir John Cass Business School in London, United Kingdom.
Anun currently works with IIFL Wealth, which is one of the premier & leading financial institutions in India. Prior to this Anun was instrumental in successfully bringing Pita Pit, a Canadian QSR chain serving healthy food with over 650 outlets worldwide to India. He started his career in strategy & operations consulting with Deloitte. He worked under the mentorship of his father Mr. Pramod Kumar Dhawan (CA) in Mentor Trading & Capital Consultants 2011-2013.
Anun is an empathetic social worker, having worked closely with a school for underprivileged children in New Delhi that provided free education from 2008 to 2013 and taught mathematics to junior school children for a period of two years. Anun aims to work on educating people of all ages on a stronger civic sense with the eventual aim of promoting a happier co-existence and as a practicing Buddhist shares the philosophy of love, compassion, and peace to everyone in personal interactions, eventually writing based on life learnings. He is an avid reader with a keen interest in spirituality, philosophy, and real-life stories. Other hobbies include cricket, traveling and music.
Sarika Grover
Sarika Grover (SEALA 2, India) is founder of Green Giraffes, a growth consulting firm which she started in 2014. She has over 22+ years of work experience and has helped grow 20+ brands in the D2C and fashion-lifestyle space. She and her team step in as fractional executives - stepping in at pivotal growth moments to sharpen brand identity, scale marketplaces and D2C growth, product direction and build retail experiences that work for customers.
Her client roster includes leading brands from the D2C and fashion- lifestyle sector: FableStreet, Wakefit, Pink Fort, Koparo, Sirona, Dormakaba, Satya Paul, Biba, Genesis Luxury amongst others. Prior to Green Giraffes, she has worked with Future Group, Benetton, Philips and also run an own design firm (MadCow).
A NIFT and ISB graduate, she is also a yoga practitioner who believes her kitchen is her medicine cabinet. When she is not working, you can find her sitting in a cafe sipping coffee and people watching.
Farhad Karamally
Dr. Farhad Karamally (SEALA 2, Pakistan) is an organizational development consultant, leadership practitioner, management architect, published author, and fun-loving solutionist who thrives on ‘funcilitation’. His work is powered by curiosity, reinvention, and a deep passion for connecting with people, entering their world, understanding their reality, and helping them discover opportunities and pathways they may not yet see.
For over three decades, he has helped transform complex business challenges into practical possibilities by blending business insight, behavioral science, storytelling, and experiential learning. His conversations are designed to move people from reflection to meaningful action.
Farhad has designed and delivered transformational learning experiences across Asia and the Middle East. He brings an energetic belief that people and organizations grow when they learn to see differently, think courageously, and tap into the potential already within them.
His mantra is simple: the future is not something we enter. It is something we consciously architect, continuously.
Ashok Mittal
Ashok Mittal is an independent management advisor to CEOs, top management teams, and young entrepreneurs. Ashok has more than 20 years of experience in leadership development, change management, manufacturing operations, supply chain management, and green field project establishments.
Ashok is an angel investor in India Quotient and serves as a professional advisor to several portfolio companies. Ashok is also a certified facilitator for Personalysis (a psychoanalysis management tool) where he provides employee assessment and coaching, change and transition management, conflict resolution, and leadership/personal development to a wide range of clients.
Before his current roles, Ashok was a co-founder and managing director of Semco Electric and Ultratech Metals (I) Ltd, contract manufacturers of precision metal and plastic products, parts, and sub-assemblies.
Ashok received his bachelor's degree in engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences in Pilani, India. Along with other activities, he loves to travel, and scuba dive in various destinations around the world and is a hobbyist photographer.