Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim is a German American Internet entrepreneur.

Born:

Merseburg, East Germany, in 1979 & moved to West Germany in 1980

Jawed Karim is a Bangladeshi. But he was born in Germany and later moved to the

United States along with his family.

Family:

Father: Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M

Mother: Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the

University of Minnesota

Graduation:

Central High School (Saint Paul, Minnesota)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Computer Science.

Famous:

He is best known for being a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a

video on it.

Jawed sits on 2nd place in the list of top ten most inspirational Bangladeshis.

Contributions:

Co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube

He designed and implemented many of PayPal's features like their real-time anti-fraud

system.

Recently Jawed has launched a venture fund called Youniversity Ventures.

Sumaya Kazi- CEO of Sumazi.com Born

Kazi was born in Hollywood, California in 1982

grew up in Moreno Valley, California

Residence:

San Francisco, California

Graduation:

Canyon Springs High School

University of California, Berkeley graduating in 2004 with a degree in

Interdisciplinary Studies in Business.

Career:

CEO & Founder of Sumazi.

Prior to Sumazi, she served as a Senior Social Media Manager at Sun Microsystems,

where she was responsible for the global strategy and implementation of social media.

Famous:

CEO & Founder of Sumazi, the intelligent social demand gen service used by

enterprises, brands, nonprofits and celebrities.

BusinessWeek Magazine Top Young Entrepreneur

Led Social Strategy at Sun Microsystems

Contributions:

She founded her first company, The Culture Connect’, a media company for young

professionals.

In April 2011, Sumaya founded Sumazi, the social intelligence platform used by

brands, celebrities and enterprises.

She has also consulted several large enterprises and notable startups on social

strategy.

She has been featured in over 150 newspapers, magazines, radio interviews, and

television spotlights in top-tier outlets such as Newsweek, BusinessWeek Magazine,

CNN, ABC News and Washington Post.

Sumaya frequently speaks at professional conferences and educational institutions

inspiring audiences on topics such as entrepreneurship, non-profit work,

intrapreneurship, social media and technology.

Awards, Press and Honors

2006: BusinessWeek Magazine, America's Best Young Entrepreneurs Under 25

2007: CNN, Young People Who Rock

2007: Brass Magazine cover story

2007: Silicon Valley Business Journal, Dynamic Super Connector

2008: ABC7 KGO-TV, Bay Area Trailblazer and Community Leader

2009: UTNE Reader, Top 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World

2011: GenJuice, The Top 100 Most Desirable Mentors

2012: YFS Magazine, 10 San Francisco Entrepreneurs to Watch

2012: Forbes, Female Founders to Watch from UC Berkeley

2012: Reuters, Most Influential Executives on the Web

2014: British Bangladeshi Power & Inspiration 100, Top 10 Inspirational

Bangladeshis Around the World

Nishat Majumdar

Born:

born in Lakshmipur District in Bangladesh

Marriage:

Nishat is married to Md. Rafiqul Islam, currently working as an engineer at Hazrat

Shahjalal International Airport, Dhaka.

Graduation:

bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from Dhaka City College

Career:

At present works for the Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority.

Famous

She is well known famous because she is the first Bangladeshi woman Nishat

Majumdar to scale Mount Everest. She reached the northern side of the mountain with

the team on May 19, 2012.

She conquered Himalaya`s Mera Peak (6,653.78 metres) in 2007, Singchuli Peak (6,501

metres) in 2008 and Makalu Peak (8,493.3 metres) in 2009.

Nafees Bin Zafar

Born:

October 8, 1978 at Dhaka, Bangladesh

Family:

Father: Zafar Bin Bashar

Mother: Nafeesa Zafar

He is a great grandson of the famous late Bangladeshi poet Golam Mostofa and

nephew of the famous Bangladeshi artist and puppeteer Mostofa Monowar.

Occupation:

Nafees Bin Zafar is a Bangladeshi software engineer.

Employer:

Director of Research and Development at Oriental DreamWorks in Shanghai

Famous:

He is famous because he is the first Bangladeshi to win an Oscar in 2007 for his

contribution to the development of the fluid simulation system for the movie: Pirates

of the Caribbean: At Worlds End.

Contributions:

He develop techniques and software for the visual effects industry

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (principal engineer)

Puss in Boots (2011 film) (senior software engineer)

Kung Fu Panda 2 (senior software engineer)

Megamind (senior production engineer)

Shrek Forever After (senior production engineer)

Percy Jackson & the Lightning Thieff (software engineer)

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (visual effects: Digital Domain)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (technical developer)

Flags of Our Fathers (technical developer)

Stealth (software engineer)

The Croods (research and development principal engineer: DreamWorks Animation)

Awards:

Scientific and Technical Academy Award (OSCAR) in 2007

Korvi Rakshand

Born

Born in August 19, 1985 at Dhaka, Bangladesh

Residence:

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Graduation:

University of London

Scholastica school

Mastermind School

Family:

Father: Nurul Akhter a businessman

Mother: Mafruda Khan, teacher

Occupation:

Founder of JAAGO Foundation

President of Volunteer for Bangladesh

Contribution:

In 2007, he created the JAAGO Foundation. With 17 students he started a free-of-

cost-school in the slum area of Rayer Bazar, which now runs classes for nearly 600

students.

In 2011 he founded Volunteer for Bangladesh , which is the volunteer wing of

JAAGO Foundation.

Awards and Recognition

Mosaic Award Talent 2010

Commonwealth Youth Awards 2013

Top 99 under 33 Foreign Policy Leader

Top 10 Inspirational Bangladeshis around the World