Agni Systems Ltd.
Chairman
Mr. Reaz Islam is an entrepreneur and a seasoned investment/financial services professional with more than 30 years of leadership, innovation, restructuring, business development, and execution expertise across various public and private markets in both start-ups and well-established companies.
Mr. Reaz spent 18 years at Citigroup in New York out of which he spent 12 years as the Managing Director, SIO, and Chief Investment Officer of the Citigroup Fixed Income Alternatives Unit, part of the Alternative Investments Group managing over USD$ 50 Billion in assets. Mr. Reaz left Citigroup to follow his visionary instincts and became a Managing Partner at LR Global — a frontier market public and private investment firm founded by J. Murray Logan – Rockefeller & Co., in New York and founded its Asian operation in 2008, including LR Global office in Dhaka.
He is currently the Chairman of the Trustee Committee of Vocational Training and Health Care Center for Vulnerable Youth and acts as a Senior Advisor to various regional companies regarding investments and governance issues and represents investors as a Board Member.
He attended Cornell University in New York, where he earned a B.S. specializing in Economics and Statistics; and MBA with double majors in Finance and Operations Research (Financial Engineering Track) from New York University Stern School of Business.
Managing Director
Director
Director (Represented By ICB)
Director (Nominated by the LR Global Bangladesh AMCL)
Mr. Muhammad Omar Soeb Chowdhury is the Director of Agni Systems Limited. He is a Nominee Director, Nominated by the LR Global Bangladesh AMCL. Mr. Chowdhury has been working as a Manager (Legal & Compliance) at LR Global Bangladesh AMCL for the last 3 years. He has been certified as a Barrister in the year of 2014 by the Honorable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London, UK. He completed his Post Graduate Diploma in Law (PGDL) in 2013 from the City University of London, UK. He also completed his LL.B and Diploma-in-Law from the University of London, UK.
Before joining LR Global, Mr. Omar worked as an Associate at “Huq & Company” under the direct supervision of Late Barrister Mr. Rafique-ul Huq, Former Attorney General and Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. In 2016, he was enrolled as an Advocate of the District & Session Judge Court, Dhaka. Subsequently, in 2019, he registered as an Advocate with the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. During this tenure, he actively assisted his senior, Mr. Huq in preparing the cases and also in the hearing before different courts, both higher and lower judiciary.
He is specialized and has extensive experience in documentation including but not limited to drafting all sorts of petitions, affidavits, agreements, deeds, wills, notices, and all kinds of legal instruments. He is a diligent and detail-oriented Barrister with a solid track record of success in diverse fields of law. He is focused on completing work quickly to consistently meet targets within deadlines and is accustomed to taking on challenging tasks and dedicated to achieving the success of the company.
Independent Director
Ms. Marufa Ismat has over 32 years of experience in the road transport sector under the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. She served in the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) for 13 years as Chief Transport Economist and began her career in 1990 as a Research Officer within the same department.
Her professional expertise includes conducting economic feasibility studies for road and bridge projects, estimating road user costs, and developing medium- and long-term development plans for RHD. She has also contributed to policy formulation and specialized reports on regional and sub-regional connectivity, trade facilitation, and socio-economic development. Ms. Ismat has actively participated in national and international forums as a government representative and transport expert, addressing regional connectivity and road transport development.
Following her retirement in 2022, she worked intermittently as a National Expert (Transport Economist) for the BBIN Study Project under the Asian Development Bank (ADB), representing the Roads and Road Transport Division, Government of Bangladesh, from 2022 to 2023. Currently, she serves as a Transport Economist Consultant with the Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Company (IIFC), a wing of the Economic Relations Division under the Ministry of Finance.
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