K Mahmood Sattar

Chairman, RSA Advisory

Kazi Mahmood Sattar has over 40 years of banking experience, mostly with international banks. He started his career with ANZ Grindlays Bank as a Management Trainee in 1981. In his overseas stint, he spent one year in Mumbai as a Corporate Dealer with Treasury. He also worked more than two years in Melbourne, Australia as Manager Corporate Banking. He underwent extensive training in investment banking and successfully established Bangladesh’s first Investment Banking Arm/Corporate Finance Unit. He took over as Head of Corporate and Investment Banking Division of ANZ Grindlays Bank in Bangladesh in 1995.

He led two large domestic commercial banks as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer. While heading two large old-fashioned banks, he successfully modernized them by reorganization, modernization, implementation of state of art IT system and converted the culture and business to compete with the international banks in the country.

Until recently he was an Independent Director and Chairman of the Board Executive Committee of BRAC Bank Limited. Alongside his responsibility as the Chairman of RSA Advisory Limited a boutique Investment Bank, he is currently the Chairman of Blue Wealth Assets Limited and IPDC Finance Limited, one of the leading NBFIs in Bangladesh.

Mr. Mahmood Sattar other than RSA Advisory Limited is also involved with other entities in the following manner: