Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Priyo
Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Website priyo.com Facebook View on Facebook LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Zakaria Swapan is the Founder and CEO of iPay. He previously worked at Avaya as a Product Line Manager. Zakaria Swapan attended Texas A&M University. Mr. Swapan was ahead of the game and niched the role of the now booming IT industry in Bangladesh. Right after earning a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering, he designed &
developed “Bengali Word Processor” and “Spell Checker” for MS Word under Windows Operating System, when he worked as a software engineer at Bangladesh Open University.
He co-founded several entities in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His ventures always ensured time and again, that it provides services that are customer-focused and performance-driven. In every entity, he led and motivated teams comprising more than 350 employees. Some of his earlier ventures include BangladeshOnline (ProshikaNet) and Ranks Telecom Ltd where he served as co-founder and COO. Through these ventures, he led campaigns to popularize the internet in Bangladesh. He introduced the first online ISP (via Satellite) in Bangladesh when people of the country did not even know much about the internet.