TechLife Report

Team Creative CEO Russell T Ahmed-led panel has swiped eight positions in the BASIS election while Mostafizur Rahaman Sohel secured the highest 405 votes in bianniel polls.

Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) held an election for 2024-26 at the Shooting Federation premises in Gulshan the capital on Wednesday.

The eight winners in the general category of the election are -- Mostafizur Rahaman Sohel of Advanced ERP, M Rashidul Hasan of Systech Digital, Mir Shahrukh Islam of Bondstein Technologies, Dr. Muhammad Risalat Siddique of Analyzen Bangladesh, M Asif Rahman of AR Communications, Iqbal Ahmed Fakhrul Hasan of Divine IT and Didarul Alam of Shooting Star.  

Winners in associate and affiliate categories are Syed Abdullah Jayed of  Finalytics and Biplob Ghosh Rahul of Carnival Assure. Syed Mohammad Kamal of MasterCard and Abu Muhammad Rashed Mujib Noman of Augmedix got equal 3 votes in the international category while Kamal won through lottery.

In this election 33 candidates contested in three panels Team Smart, One Team and Team Success. Of the eleventh executive position, Russel’s One Team won 8 positions in general, associate and affiliate categories while Team Smart of Sohel won 3 positions.

Out of 1,464 voters, 1157 voted in this year's BASIS election. Among them 781 out of 932 voters voted in a general category, 250 out of 389 voters voted in the associate category, 118 out of 134 voters voted in the affiliate category and 8 out of 9 voters voted in the international category.