MR. KHALID ISLAM

MR. KHALID ISLAM

Managing Director

Biography

Mr. Khalid Islam is a seasoned technology executive with over fifteen years of leadership experience in leading and enabling team across diverse market segments from ICT, Payments, Financial Services to Telecommunication, Power Generation including over 10 years of product and business development experience at Wells Fargo. His progressive career in North America and South Asia is a testament to his demonstrated success in setting, managing and driving global business performance, formulating and executing long-term strategies for both local & global markets.

He is a critical thinker and adept collaborator with a proven history of reaching across cultural, organizational and functional boundaries, finding balance between competing interests and building consensus to yield profitable partnerships and revenue-enhancing opportunities. Mr. Khalid is a perfect example of a consummate learner with an innate passion for incubating ideas & understanding customer needs and translating these needs into a product vision.

Achievements

  • Balanced results-oriented technology entrepreneur with a proven track record of building teams, founding start-ups, designing products and bringing news ideas to market.
  • Co-founded an international telecommunications startup, raised venture capital, secured project financing USD 7+ million and built greenfield operations providing international voice termination services for both Mobile and PSTN/Fixed-Line operators.
  • Managed and grew USD 100+ million P&L of payment product portfolio for B2C and B2B market space.
  • Launched Wells Fargo’s first comprehensive online Wire Transfer platform generating USD 20+ million in revenue in 2 years.