Shawkat Hossain joins as Director, Financial Inclusion and Investments at LightCastle Partners

LightCastle Partners is delighted to welcome Shawkat Hossain as Director, Financial Inclusion and Investments at LightCastle Partners. He will be leading LightCastle’s engagements in the space of financial Inclusion, impact and enterprise development.

Shawkat Hossain is the current Managing Partner of Velocity Asia, an alternative investment company based out of Bangladesh. He is the former Managing Director at BD Venture Limited and serves as the General Secretary of VCPEAB. He has 35 years of experience in his credit out of that 7 years in Venture Capital, 10 years as bankers and 18 years in financial management/ accounting profession. Moreover, he has vast experience in working in different sectors such as manufacturing, NGO, and banks and in different reputed organization such as BRAC, BRAC Bank, Prime Bank, and ICDDRB, among others.