Naila Chowdhury
CEO, Grameen Solutions Limited
Chairman, TeleConsult Group
Board Director, Bangladesh Women Chambers. BWCCI
Board Director, Bangladesh Women in IT. BWIT
Board Director, The Engineers Ltd.

Naila Chowdhury, CEO, Grameen Solutions Limited an affiliate of Grameen Family focused into Economic empowerment of all through emerging technology. She is also Chairman, TeleConsult Group in Bangladesh & USA. Previously she held the position of Director, Customer Relations & Human Resources, in GrameenPhone Ltd, the largest Mobile Phone Operator in Bangladesh. She held position as Director, Customer Relations in Telenor Pakistan aswell. She was selected as one of the Synergy Experts of Asia in Telenor and served as an able team member in Asia & Eastern Europe mainly Ukraine. On return to the Country in 2006 She worked as a Senior Consultant & Group Director/Advisor in large multinational organizations and MNCs in Bangladesh. At present She is also serving as a Senior Consultant in Axiata Bangladesh Ltd (AkTel) in Revamp Project. She is also the Chairman of Resource Bangladesh and the Board Director of The Engineers Limited.

She got an award for Best Women Corporate for year 2010 from Bangladesh. She has received an award for her excellent contribution to development of Human Resource in Bangladesh for the year 2006 from BSTD – Bangladesh Society for Training & Development & Rapport Bangladesh.

She has been recognized as an eminent professional and chosen as a recipient of WHO’S WHO INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION for the year 2008.

She was chosen by Michael Palin as one of the prominent & successful professional of Bangladesh, during filming of his South Asian travel documentary series “ Himalaya with Michael Palin “ for BBC TV, in which she also features.

“Presenter of the BBC documentary Michael Palin was accompanied by Naila Chowdhury, during Grameen Banks visit to Village Phone site. She also acted as an interpreter during the interview with Abida. The BBC team is visiting Bangladesh as part of its 2,000-mile journey from Afghanistan to the Bay of Bengal to film the documentary.”

She started her professional career in UNICEF, Bangladesh. Subsequently she had worked in Marketing in Marie Stopes Clinic as Marketing Head.

She is a pioneer in setting up State of the Art 24X7 Call Center in DHL Express- Bangladesh when she was Services Head for 5 years in DHL.

Along with a Masters Degree in Marketing from Dhaka University she has a Senior Executive Business Management Diploma from Singapore National University and a Senior Executive Management Certification from the Stockholm School of Economics.

She also shouldered additional responsibility and was in charge of the Village phone Project of Grameen Bank on behalf of GrameenPhone Ltd.

She is well traveled and has represented her company in many prestigious International forums, seminars and workshops.

She has successfully held responsibility as Acting Managing Director in absence of the Managing Director, Grameen Phone Ltd during the leadership of Grameen Phone’s two most successful Country Head’s Trond Moe & Ola Ree.

Over the past 21 years of her professional career of which she had 16 years of Senior. Management position, she has gained extensive & versatile experience in the field of mainly telecommunication, large MNC and diversified, multi culture management.

Her personal goal is to be able to empower, build & rightly place talents of Asia in the International & local market. Thus she wants to build a platform to voice Asian talents in the local & international arena through her CSR focused organization and able team members. They are focused into Job Placement Services, Payroll Services, CSR Activities, HR Consultancy, Career Counseling & Career Guidance and Professional Grooming etc.

She is also affiliated with social work for under privileged children of Bangladesh. She has visited many countries as guest speaker from UNICEF and other organizations. Her passion is to be involved in various charity Associations and clubs in Bangladesh, Pakistan and UK.

As a person she is outgoing, people oriented individual, with excellent written & oral communication skills. Her wide exposure & multi- functional experience has groomed her for multi cultural environment, adaptable to change. Her expertise lies in leading, training small to very large teams. She is an articulate presenter. She is focused, self motivated & goal oriented. This makes her effective in nurturing client relationships & developing in-house synergies between different affiliates of a company in different countries to establish Best practice and ensure her focus on company’s-bottom line. She is very accustomed to producing positive results for greater efficiency in product delivery, customer loyalty and to bring about immense customer satisfaction in a bid to delight customers professionally.

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