MBA
- IESE was ranked the #1 business school in 2021 by The Economist.
- The first Bangladeshi IESE student.
- Awarded the "Most Transformed Student of the Class" award.
Chief Technology Officer · Barcelona
Mehedi Hasan
AI & Digital Transformation Leader. Blending tech, business and scaling expertise across FinTech, logistics, telecom and media.
- 4CTO roles
- 3Countries worked in
- 27Press features
- MBAIESE Business School
European FinTech Awards 2026 · London
Rising Star of the Year
Winner of Rising Star of the Year and finalist for Director of the Year at the European FinTech Awards 2026, held in London in June 2026.
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Who is Mehedi Hasan?
From childhood, Mehedi Hasan has been a natural with numbers. He was the High School Regional Math Olympiad champion in 2001 and the University hall chess champion in 2005. He completed his honours and master's in Physics at the University of Dhaka, the top university in Bangladesh, in 2008, where he was also known as a hardcore programmer.
Foreseeing the vastness of technology, he declined a Ph.D. offer to build his career in tech. Within ten years, after working for multinationals including the World Bank, he became one of the youngest Deputy General Managers (Head of IT, eCommerce & Payment) at Grameenphone, a USD 1.7 billion company and the biggest brand in Bangladesh.
In 2018 he moved to Barcelona, Spain, as a Highly Qualified Worker. He completed his MBA at IESE Business School in 2020, recognised as the Most Transformed Student of the class, and was the first Bangladeshi IESE MBA student. In 2021 he became CTO at Kubbo, an award-winning logistics startup in Spain. Mehedi is also a co-founder of Mediget, a digital platform that connects medicine manufacturers and suppliers, pharmacies and customers. Today he is CTO at Hastee, the financial wellbeing platform acquired by Zellis Group in 2025. In June 2026 he was named Rising Star of the Year at the European FinTech Awards in London.
Experience
Eighteen years of building and scaling technology
From Bangladesh's first digital newspaper to a UK FinTech acquisition.
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Chief Technology Officer
Hastee · part of Zellis Group – PresentLed technical due diligence and full integration when Hastee was acquired by Zellis Group in June 2025, covering security, DevOps, QA and engineering. Restructured the technology team to 93% retention, introduced AI-assisted development, and won Rising Star of the Year at the European FinTech Awards 2026.
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Technology leadership at XpertAi.
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Built the same-day and next-day eCommerce fulfilment platform that made Kubbo a top-3 finalist at Spain's CEL Logistics Awards 2021 and helped secure a €1M round from Notion Capital, Swiss Post and Wayra.
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CNT Event Tracking Project Lead
Adevinta –Led the CNT event-tracking project at the global online classifieds group.
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Head of IT, E-commerce & Payment
Grameenphone · Telenor Group –One of the youngest Deputy General Managers at Bangladesh's largest brand. Led the architecture and product development of Shoparu, a national eCommerce marketplace for a 70-million-subscriber network.
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Principal Software Architect and founding technology leader of Bangladesh's first Bangla-language social network, which grew to 100,000 active users and a top-100 site in the country.
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Consultant
IFC · World Bank Group –Consultant at the International Finance Corporation, the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group.
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Team Lead
Prothom Alo –Designed and built eProthomAlo.com from scratch, Bangladesh's first digital newspaper edition, serving 500,000+ daily readers by 2012 and cutting print-to-digital turnaround from 24 hours to under two.
Education
Academic journey
M.Sc. in Physics
- Dissertation "Scale-Free Small World Network", a simulation-based research project.
- Received a fully funded Ph.D. admission offer from the University of Dhaka.
B.Sc. in Physics
- Cum Laude, top 20% of the class.
- Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 2003 to 2007.
- University Hall Chess Champion, 2005.
- Private teacher for M.Sc. students while studying for the B.Sc., 2007.
In the news
Recognised by national and international press
Twenty-seven features across the UK, Spain and Bangladesh, from 2011 to 2026.
Contact
Let's talk
Available for advisory roles, speaking engagements and leadership opportunities in AI, digital transformation and FinTech.