Jon Omund Revhaug is currently Head of Telenor Asia. He leads the Telenor Asia office in Singapore, which is responsible for Telenor's business activities in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand and Pakistan. He has extensive international and operational experience from his 24 years with the company. &nbsp;Prior to assuming his current role on 01 April 2025, he held several senior leadership roles including as acting EVP and Head of Telenor Nordics and Chief Operations Officer at Telenor Nordics with responsibility for technology, IT and Shared Services across the region. Jon Omund also served as Chief Integration Officer for the merger between CP Group-owned True and Telenor-owned Dtac in Thailand. &nbsp;Before that he was the CEO of Telenor Myanmar, which he led through both Covid and the period of the military coup. Jon Omund was also instrumental in establishing Telenor Group's global sourcing function, setting up and serving as CE0 of TPC, which sources equipment and services for Telenor operations across the Nordics and Asia. &nbsp;Revhaug has close to 20 years of Board experience and currently serves as Board Chair of Grameenphone Ltd. in Bangladesh, Deputy Board Chair of CelcomDigi Berhad in Malaysia and on the Board of True Corporation Public Company Limited in Thailand. He was previously Chair of the Board of Directors of Telenor Shared Services, DNA Oyj in Finland, Telenor Norway, Telenor Sweden and Telenor Denmark while serving as acting Head of Telenor Nordics. He has also served as Board Chair of Telenor Myanmar, and as a board member of TPC and TT Network in Denmark, a joint venture with Telia. Jon Omund Revhaug holds a Master of Management degree from BI Norwegian Business School and a Cand. Mag. degree in Economics and Biology from the University of Tromsø, Norway.

Jon Omund Revhaug

<div class="WordSection1">Mr. M Shahjahan brings decades of experience in finance and operations in the development sector.&nbsp;He serves as the Chair of Grameenphone’s Treasury Committee. Currently, he is performing as Executive Vice Chairman of Grameen Kalyan. Earlier he was the Managing Director of Grameen Telecom Trust. In addition, he was former Managing Director of Grameen Bank. His previous experience includes serving as the Deputy Managing Director, the General Manager and Head of Accounts, Finance, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Division, Chief of the Audit Department, and the Zonal Manager of Grameen Bank. Mr. Shahjahan is a member of the Board of Directors of several Social Business companies that work in the fields of health, education, agriculture, welfare, renewable energy and telecommunications.&nbsp;Mr. Shahjahan holds a Master’s degree in Accounting and a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Dhaka. He was awarded ICAB Medal (Silver) for passing the ‘C.A. Intermediate’ examination at the earliest eligible chance.</div>

M Shahjahan

<div class="WordSection1">Mr. Md. Ashraful Hassan has been an integral part of the Grameen Group for over 40 years, currently serving as its Chairman. He also holds the position of Managing Director &amp; CEO for several Grameen organisations contributing significantly to the group's transformative social and economic initiatives. Throughout his distinguished career, Mr. Hassan has been instrumental in promoting and expanding access to telecommunication services in rural Bangladesh. His expertise spans various industrial sectors, where he champions resource and energy-efficient production. He also possesses extensive experience in industrial management, supply chain management, local and export markets, and development of rural artists and artisan goods&nbsp;His contributions extend to the field of construction engineering, where he has overseen the establishment of numerous mega-projects for the Grameen Group. Starting his career with Grameen Bank in 1984, he held key positions for over 15 years, including Chief of Engineering, and played a pivotal role in the infrastructural development of the bank.&nbsp;Currently, Mr. Hassan serves as Chairman and Board Member for several enterprises, driving impactful work in areas such as social business microcredit, renewable energy, mobile network operations, healthcare education, food and nutrition, construction, technology, and financial inclusion. Mr. Hassan's extensive contributions reflect his commitment to fostering entrepreneurial development, generating employment, and building sustainable ecosystems for communities in Bangladesh and beyond Mr. Hassan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET), Bangladesh&nbsp;</div>

Md. Ashraful Hassan

A K M Moinuddin Chowdhury&nbsp;has&nbsp;over 36 years of extensive professional experience, including&nbsp;16 years of service in the Bangladesh Army and the&nbsp;rest&nbsp;20 years&nbsp;in&nbsp;financial&nbsp;and development sectors, both locally and internationally.&nbsp;&nbsp;Currently he is serving as the Managing Director of Grameen Kalyan, the largest non-government primary healthcare provider in Bangladesh. Prior to his current tenure, he served as an&nbsp;international&nbsp;consultant and managed large projects like DFID (UK Aid) and DFAT (Australian Aid) funded programmes in Bangladesh.&nbsp;He was also&nbsp;appointed as the Director of Finance for the Maxwell Stamp Plc&nbsp;in the&nbsp;UK and worked&nbsp;on a vital project for the Bangladesh Government in&nbsp;public financial management,&nbsp;collaborating closely&nbsp;with the Ministry of Finance.&nbsp;He&nbsp;also&nbsp;worked as a Principal Consultant at Frost &amp; Sullivan in the UK.&nbsp;He is currently serving as&nbsp;a member of the Board of Directors of several Social Business companies those work in the fields of health, finance, garments and mobile manufacturing industry etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mr. Moin holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Bayes Business School (formerly known as Cass Business School), City University in London, UK. In addition to that, he also holds Master of Defence Studies (MDS) from the Defence Services Command and Staff College, Mirpur, Bangladesh and obtained first class.

A K M Moinuddin Chowdhury

Mr. Øivind Burdal has deep knowledge in legal affairs with operational and management experience in Europe and Asia.He joined the Legal Department of Telenor ASA in 2004 where he has practiced and held managerial positions in several areas. In August 2017, he was appointed Vice President, Head of Group Legal Asia in Telenor ASA after having served as Senior Vice President, Head of Legal in Telenor Myanmar Limited since July 2015. After obtaining his law degree, he joined Thommessen Krefting Greve Lund, one of the major law firms in Norway, focusing on M&amp;A and TMT.Mr. Burdal obtained his Law degree (Cand. Jur.) from the University of Oslo, Norway, a degree in Business Administration (Bedriftsokonom BI) from BI Norwegian Business School Oslo, Norway, and a Master’s degree (LLM, Master of Corporate and Commercial Law) from London School of Economics and Political Science in London, England.

Øivind Burdal

Ms. Tone Ripel brings broad legal experience, corporate governance and business ethics, in addition to the Board of Directors experience in the telecom industry.&nbsp; She currently holds the position as Senior Vice President Governance and HSS in Telenor Asia. In the period 2013-2024 she worked as Attorney-at-Law in the Group Legal of Telenor ASA. She started her career as Higher Executive Officer, advisor and senior advisor in the Norwegian Competition Authority. In 1999, Tone joined Wiersholm Lawfirm in Norway as an Associated Attorney and Senior Attorney working primarily with corporate issues hereunder competition law, corruption issues and regulated markets, which included project management of high-profile investigations, crises management and contact with relevant authorities. She has served as Director of the Boards in Total Access Communications Public Company Limited (dtac), Thailand , Digi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd, Malaysia and Telenor Norge AS, Norway. In July 2024 she joined as Director of the Board of Telenor Pakistan. Tone holds a Master’s degree in Law from University of Oslo. &nbsp;

Tone Ripel

<div class="source-sans-pro custom-page-basic-font-size"><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(26, 26, 26);font-family:Telenor, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans Bengali&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:24px 0px 0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Mr. Irfan Wahab Khan has extensive Executive and Board experience within Telecoms, Technology Consulting and FinTech having served in the UK, USA, Norway, Philippines, Saudi, Pakistan, Thailand and Singapore.<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(26, 26, 26);font-family:Telenor, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans Bengali&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:24px 0px 0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">He is Chair of the Grameenphone’s HSSE Committee. Mr. Irfan is the SVP, Head of Portfolio Development at Telenor Asia. Prior to that, he served as Head of Emerging Asia cluster Telenor Group, Chair of Telenor Myanmar and CEO of Telenor Pakistan. Since joining Telenor in 2004, he has held a several executive positions across Telenor Group. He is presently Chair of Telenor Bank and Board member IMD Board Governance Community. Prior to Telenor, Mr. Irfan worked at Orange UK, T-Mobile USA, Telcodia Technologies and Ericsson.<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(26, 26, 26);font-family:Telenor, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans Bengali&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:24px 0px 0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Mr. Irfan holds a Master’s degree in Mobile, Personal and Satellite Communications from the University of Westminster, London, UK. He also holds qualifications in Financial Management from Harvard Business School, Executive Diploma in Marketing from London Business School, Global CEO Programme from IESE/Wharton and Advance Management from INSEAD. He is a Qualified Board Director from IMD and Singapore Institute of Directors.</div>

Irfan Wahab Khan

<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(26, 26, 26);font-family:Telenor, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans Bengali&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:24px 0px 0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Mr. Marius Gigernes is a senior corporate and finance leader and has held leadership roles in the telecommunications sector across Europe and Asia.<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(26, 26, 26);font-family:Telenor, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans Bengali&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:24px 0px 0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">He is currently Vice President and Head of Investment Management Team Bangladesh and Pakistan. In this role, he is responsible for Telenor’s activities in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Previously Gigernes served as a member of the Investment Management Malaysia and before that, he had several CFO roles in entities within Telenor Group across Europe and Asia.<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(26, 26, 26);font-family:Telenor, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans Bengali&quot;, sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0px;orphans:2;padding:24px 0px 0px;text-align:start;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Mr. Gigernes holds a Master of Business and Economics/Siviløkonom from BI Norwegian Business School. He is awarded the Certificate in Corporate Governance from INSEAD and a lifetime Alumni of INSEAD. He also has strategy courses from Harvard Business School and INSEAD. He has completed the Mandatory Accreditation Programme by Bursa, Malaysia.

Marius Gigernes

Mr. Abdul-Muyeed Chowdhury was a civil servant belonging to the erstwhile Civil Service of Pakistan (CSP) cadre which he joined in October 1967. He has extensive experience in administration, working with the Government of Bangladesh in field level assignments as Deputy Commissioner and Divisional Commissioner, as well as at the policy level as Secretary in several ministries&nbsp;He served as an Adviser to the non-party Caretaker Government of Bangladesh in 2001 and held charge of five ministries&nbsp;He serves as Chair of Grameenphone's Nomination and Remuneration Committee (NRC) andis currently serving as the Chairman of the Board of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Managing Director &amp; CEO of Tiger Tours Limited. He was appointed Head of Public Administration Reforms Commission, one of six Commissions set up by the Interim Government of Bangladesh. He has spent more than three decades in the civil service of Bangladesh, including as Secretary to the Government of Bangladeshin charge of various ministries, including holding leadership roles as Secretary of the Internal Resources Division (IRD) of the Ministry of Finance and ex-officio Chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR). Among otherroles he headed the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Authority and served as ex-officio Secretary of the Jamuna Bridge Division. In this role, he successfully managed and completed the largest-ever development project of the country "The Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge". He was made a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), UK, for this accomplishment. He was the founding Chair of the SME Foundation and also Board Member of several other public institutions. Mr. Chowdhury is a nominated member of the Board of Directors of several listed companies, and Independent Director of four listed companies including Grameenphone&nbsp;Mr. Chowdhury holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honours in General History from Dhaka University and a Master of Arts (1st Class) in Modern History from the same University. He also attended a certificate course in Public Administration at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA as aFulbright Awardee&nbsp;&nbsp;

Abdul-Muyeed Chowdhury

Dr. Melita Mehjabeen is a Professor at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka. She has over 20 years of extensive professional experiences in academia, research work, financial services, consultancy, and advisory roles, including 5 years of experience in the corporate sector. She is an Independent Director of several listed companies in Bangladesh.&nbsp;&nbsp;Dr. Mehjabeen earned a PhD in Accounting and Finance from the University of Manchester, UK; holds a Master’s in Development Studies from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), University of Dhaka.

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