Rumi Saifullah

Mr. S. Rumi Saifullah is a professional Industrial and Systems Engineer who holds a Bachelors Degree in Industrial & Systems Engineering) from Arizona State University, with specialization in Industrial Management and operation Research. As member of the Engineering Students Council he closely worked with the Dean for the college of Engineering in developing Industrial relations with leading US companies to assist in funding Graduate level research projects He was Vice President of, Institute of The Industrial Engineers Student Chapter of Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona as well as Past Member, Foreign Trade Association of Southern California and AIESEC chapter of Arizona State University As Managing Director of Vincent Impex Limited and Vincent Communications Limited have developed and facilitated the sales and marketing of new products in Agro Commodities, energy, energy efficiency for Telecom Networks as well as worked extensive with Global Technology and Trading Partners for Project Development in three sectors namely Energy, Transport Communication and Telecommunications. Mr. Saifullah help facilitate market presence for EQUINOR Asia( Norway’s State owned Energy Company and one of the 20 largest Global Energy companies ) in Bangladesh since January 2022 with help facilitate and broker sales of pressurized LPG volumes of 18 K MT per month to the tune of 200 K MT per annum in 2022. Further this year helped facilitate and broker term supplies in the tune around 100 K MT in 2023 and have been engaged till date on LPG Pressurized Supplies to the major private LPG terminals.

Mr. Saifullah had helped establish market presence for PETREDEC SERVICES Asia PTE Ltd as their local representative for the first time in Bangladesh in 1998 with the opening up LPG Imports into the private sector. Petredec is one of the largest International LPG Trading and Shipping companies with special expertise in LPG Trading and Shipping worldwide with annual LPG Volumes of 15 million Tons per annum. Engaged in facilitating and promoting market share increase to 40,000 Mt – 400,000 MT of LPG per annum to the major LPG Import Terminals covering 55 % of the country’s LPG import volumes between 1998 till 2019. Consultant to Downstream Petroleum arm of Zhenhua Oil, one of largest Chinese State owned Petroleum Group to support them on their first engagement with Bangladesh market with Gasoil sales to Bangladesh State owned Petroleum ( BPC ) since the year 2015 till 2017. Established market presence for TRAFIGURA Ltd for the first time in Bangladesh market in 2005, One of the largest International Petroleum Trading and Metal Trading companies with expertise in Trading of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products. Mr. Saifullah had been engaged with TRAFIGURA from 2005 till 2010 in helping materialize for Export of Naptha and Natural Gas Condensates from Bangladesh’s sole Crude Petroleum Refinery ( Namely ERL ) Worked with DARREN Corporation ( UK ), An Energy Consulting Group and Waste Concern to bring forth/ develop Innovative Energy Projects including Renewable Energy..Assisted in piloting the first fully integrated Solar Irrigation Pump Project in 2006 in Bangladesh.

As Director/ partner in Waste Concern Consultants and WWR Bio Fertillizer( a fully owned subsidiary of Waste Concern ( www.wasteconcern.org – the World’s First Carbon Trading Based Organic composting Plant ) , he has been engaged in help piloting Solar Irrigation Project to working on developing Waste Recycling and Waste to Energy Project

Worked on NGL Extraction related opportunities and Produced Techno economic Feasibility Study for NGL Fractionation potential in Bangladesh for Wesfarmers – one of the largest integrated Energy companies from Australia with their Bangladesh subsidiary being one of the first Import based LPG Terminal which was acquired by Laugh Gas of Srilanka and resold to a Chinese LPG operator.

- Performed financial analysis on project viability for several of oil and gas sector projects, commodities trading and technology transfer projects Identified and assessed oil, gas & infrastructure related project opportunities in Bangladesh and liaison with various International Groups such as MURPHY PETROLEUM, TOTAL ELF FINA( FRANCE), PREMIER OIL PLC Worked very closely with State owned Oil & Gas entities such as PETROBANGLA , BPC and its subsidiary companies in relation to the various project opportunities Worked as consultant to Murphy Petroleum USA for identifying Identified and evaluating potential Hydrocarbon Exploration and Development opportunities in Bangladesh and assisted in preparing Gas Exploration Bids.

Worked with Heritage Oil & Gas in identifying and assessing oil & gas related project opportunities in South and South East Asia and meanwhile Interacting with various Global Engineering Contractor such as Kvearner, ABB Lumus in regards to downstream petroleum projects in South South East Asia As Local Consultant to Premier Oil plc Identified & assessed oil & gas related opportunities in Bangladesh. Produced detail information on economics of small scale gas field for development At a later stage closely worked with Late Roland Shaw, the Founder Chairman of Premier Oil plc after his retirement from Premier Oil plc on assessing various Oil & Gas opportunities while he was chairman of the board of Heritage Oil & Gas Worked as IPP Project Consultant - Occidental Energy Ventures USA Inc( subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, USA ) for producing information on tariff structures, power and gas purchase agreements on 300MW Gas-based combined cycle power plant. - Liason with relevant authorities and prepared proposal for environmental- permitting agreement- Analyzed geological data to recommend plant location As International Consultant to MGI management AG, (One of the Swiss Global Voice and Data Wholesale Carrier ) for South and South East Asia have developed bilateral partnership with all major Telecom players such as MAXIS( Malaysia ), DIALOG( Srilanka ) and CELCOM( Malaysia ), BTCL ( Bangladesh ) to assist in deploying capacities for Bilateral voice and Data Traffic to the South Asia and ASEAN region. Responsibilities also includes in developing Customer Base for downstream retail products such as Prepaid Calling Cards, Online Cards etc. with major Telco Customers

in the Region. Also was engaged as Consultant to KPN International wholesale arm prior to engagement with MGI developing and managing Bilateral Circuits and International Voice Carrier wholesale business for KPN International in Bangladesh. Established market presence for SR Telecom from Canada in deploying Point to Multi Point Broad Band Wireless Network for WLL Fixed Line Private operators in Bangladesh. Worked extensively with SR Telecom Asia in identifying niche Telecom opportunities for Bangladesh market for Larger Telecom network with integration of NGN switching Worked extensively with Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Ltd [Viom Networks Ltd] , One of India’s largest Mobile Tower Infrastructure companies to identify, assess and develop a Business Case for Tower Infrastructure Business in Bangladesh. During this time he worked extensively with relevant teams within the major Cellular Operators mainly Banglalink and others. Had engaged with CARDTEK( One of the Global Fintech Companies currently renamed Paycore ) as their marketing consultant/ Country Representative ( One of the most innovative end to end payment Solution Companies globally ) for assessing and identifying niche Digital Payment Systems opportunities. He had been engaged with several Digital Wallet projects with private Commercial Banks and Cellular Operators in Bangladesh. Mr. Saifullah who currently heads the new local Fintech Start Up named DOELPAY Digital Limited ( www.doelpay-digital.com ) as the Chairman has been instrumental in the process of helping to launch the World’s first Biometric Metal Card with their partner IDEX Biometric ( World’s leading Norwegian Fintech company ) In the field of Agro Commodities Import Based Trading, helped established market presence for PARMALAT - CANADA for the first time in Bangladesh market , from 2000 – 2003 for the International Trading subsidiary of PARMALAT Canada and helped promote sales of 6 million USD per annum in Bangladesh market. Worked then with ECOVAL DAIRY TRADE BV since 2005 in supplying Dairy Powders, specialized dairy ingredients and replacers for Repackers and producers of dairy products in facilitating and materializing sales in the tune of 6 – 8 million USD per annum which was acquired by the Global Trading Conglomerate Louis Dreyfuss Commodities till 2013.

Mr. Saifullah has played a significant role in developing and promoting Small and Medium Sized companies through representing them in international and National workshop and conferences as well Regulatory policy Events during his 3 year tenure( 2014 to 2017 ) as Board of Director of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry( DCCI-www.dhakachamber.com ) During the role of Director for PR and Country Branding he has developed major strategy documents to enable a successful and efficient Brand Strategy for all Chamber related Initiatives and projects. He has played a very instrumental role as Chief Conference Coordinator and Program Director in launching one of the Nation’s first unique futuristic Conference of its kind namely “New

Economic Thinking :Bangladesh 2030 and beyond” held on 21st December 2016 where Global Thinkers such as Professor Jeffrey Sachs and many such Personalities were engaged in the Sessions. During His Role as Director, he has coordinated and organized several Dialogues and Workshop on Energy Resources and Diversification between the Public and Private sector Stake holders.

During his role as Past National President of JCI Bangladesh 2006 ( Fully affiliate of JCI Worldwide - An International Federation of Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs with presence in over 120 countries ), he has lead the Organization in many National and International Forums on Inclusive Leadership and Organizational management. During his tenure as national President, he has engaged with many International Development agencies such as USAID, European Commission as well National Agencies and Major News Media agencies and other relevant organizations to organize Interactive Dialogues between Regulatory Authorities and Industry on National Issues. He was member of Private Sector Consultative Task Force Committee of the World Bank led Bangladesh Private Sector Development Support Project( PSDSP )

He was instrumental in organizing the International Peace Conference project in Dhaka for Rotary International Bangladesh in February 2014 as a core Corordinator of the Conference.

He was nominated as Advisory Council member of the Asia Pacific HRM Congress 2008 Currently the Zonal Director for Bangladesh for the PMAA Dragons of Asia Judging Panel and 2017 MAA Worlwide GLOBES program starting in October 2017

Key Impacts : Mr. S. Rumi Saifullah has played an instrumental role in expanding the LPG Market both strategically with regards to supply chain and local logistical support as well as developing Business Strategy for Large Bangladesh Conglomerates on LNG and petroleum downstream projects. Mr. S. Rumi Saifullah has been awarded the following : “Leadership for HR Excellence award” at the Asia Pacific HRM( Human Resource Management) Congress 07 “ Award of Appreciation” at Asia Pacific HRM Congress 07

“Global Super Achievers’ Award” by INDIRA Group of Institute awarded at the Institute in Pune on 28 th October 2007 Promotion Marketing awards of Asia 2009 by MDSA Australia ( Exclusive Representative for Asia for the MAA worldwide GLOBES a global Recognition program )