Kazi Monirul Kabir

Kazi Monirul Kabir is a digital transformation evangelist and a revolutionary entrepreneur with a comprehensive approach and strong empathy for emerging local realities. He has worked with leading companies, including British American Tobacco, Banglalink, Grameenphone, and Google. Kabir is the owner of a digital transformation company, Spider Digital Innovation, which works on ensuring digital security. Kabir is known in the corporate world because of his objective-driven leadership and firm belief in the transformative power of technology for social good. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

Early Life and Education

Kabir was born in Jashore, Bangladesh, and spent parts of his life in Chattogram and Khulna. His father was a banker, and his mother was a housemaker.

Kabir graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Khulna University. He entered the corporate world before completing his graduation.

Career

For the last 20 years, Kabir has possessed a successful track record in marketing, communication, business development, innovation, strategic design, telecoms, and consumer goods industries.

He started his career by securing a job with British American Tobacco in the late 1990s when he was still a BBA student. He joined the company as a Channel Development Manager and left when he was a Regional Trade Marketing and Distribution Manager after working with the organization for almost seven years.

In 2005, Kabir joined the sales division of Banglalink. About 3000 women representatives were deployed under his supervision who would go door to door with Banglalink SIM cards and handsets.

After working with several national companies, he eventually joined Grameenphone and served as the youngest Chief Communication Officer on the management team, working for five years. He became Telenor’s youngest managerial board member.

In 2012, he was offered a job at Google. Working with the tech giant changed his thinking perspective. He became humble and passionate about his goal to represent his country globally. He became a technology enthusiast and wanted to start his own venture.

In 2015, Kabir founded Spider Digital Innovation, where he is the Chief Innovation Officer. Based in Dubai, Spider Digital Innovation works on ensuring digital security, supporting individuals and organizations with privacy, cybersecurity, and data integrity, and providing end-to-end cybersecurity and data protection. Kabir urges how data available on open-source platforms can be endangered to manipulation, be it data available on national portals or even biological and financial information that hackers can misuse through smart devices.

His creativity and progressive approach led him to become a member of the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.

In 2011, he founded a social innovation lab named Carefountain.org. He is a board member and advisor to several startups, including Reflective Teens.

Awards

Kabir won the Brand Leadership Award at the World Brand Congress held in Singapore.