KAZI ASIFUR RAHMAN

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

CONTACT PROFILE

01308658694 After Finishing my O and A level Exams in 2001 I enrolled in the BBA
program at North South University. My Graduating year was 2003, but
asifurdotrahman@gmail.com since before my A levels I have been working as a part time copywriter in
for Grey Dhaka and a part time contributor at Shaptahik 2000 *
until enrolling for my BBA

WORK EXPERIENCE
SKILLS

Head of Creative and bilingual Copywriter My first full time career was at TBWA Benchmark as Copy
Idea Generation and execution
Supervisor, I worked mainly at the then called AKTEL- now known
as ROBI, I was there for a short duration of time andswitched to
Bilingual copywriting. English and Bengali the newly formed Carrot Communications
At Carrot I joined as Head of Strategy and Bengali and English
Copy Supervisor . Later I was shifted as ACD for Banglalink
Desh. I honed my skills as a bilingual copywriter further and
although I was playing the role of ACD I continued my
EDUCATION
copywriting work out of passion.
My Degree and Institution Names My next big break came from Ogilvy and Mather. In February
BBA 2009 I joined as an ACD for a few clients including DANO.
North South University This was the moment when I decided to switch jobs, I worked as
2014-(2016) (I did not complete my
Graduation under the BBA Program as I a consultant in the Strategy Department at Unitrend for Coca Cola
already started my work career after a and Dancake on a contractual basis for two months. As I had my
few semesters.
personal client list growing, I grew interested in working in my
A ‘Levels
Mastermind College own set up, but for short spurts I was hired by PAPYRUS BD, and
2013 one client which was planning to launch in Bangladesh by
School Interspeed, I had a short tenure at Madonna Communications
Chittagong Grammar School Limited, but Simply Put, a US based Organization, along with
Primary School Literary Safari who I had worked on as an Independent
Little Jewels Schools Contractor before offered me to write both English and Bengali
Versions of their baby basics project in Bangladesh and Liberia
and play the role of Creative Director of Baby Basics
Bangladesh.
Since I was always under contract with Madonna
Communication, I had to sign a MoU that I would work as a
copywriter and creative head for them as long as there were no
LANGUAGES
COI - conflicts of interests.
English I recently joined Key Communication where I work as Group
Creative Head and overlook the Strategic Planning Department
Bengali
here too. At Key Communication I contacted my personal
clients and we were given retainership contracts and referrals
from to US based NPOs , Simply Put and Literary Safari.