The people accountable to the equation.
Verde Nexus was built by practitioners, not theorists. Every engagement traces back to people who have sat in the room where the decision gets made — or failed to get made.
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Yasir Aarafat
Founder
Yasir brings more than a decade of strategic finance leadership across Asia Pacific and North America — the kind of operational discipline that turns development commitments into investment-ready structures. He has led P&L turnarounds, secured a C$240M national contract for Serco Group, and directed financial governance across FTSE 250, Fortune 500, and NASDAQ-listed enterprises including Workday, Sodexo, and Compass Group. His work spans M&A due diligence, finance transformation, and commercial strategy — connecting corporate-grade financial rigor with the realities of emerging-market investment. At Verde Nexus, Yasir leads on financial architecture: investment readiness, deal structuring, and the commercial modelling that bridges DFI capital with private-sector execution.
Tashfiq Ahsan
Founder
Tashfiq has spent 16 years designing research that moves decisions, not just informs them. He won the 2014 OECD DAC Prize — the highest recognition in development effectiveness — for work on market systems that showed what actually changes when an intervention reaches its target. He led Katalyst, a CHF 32 million market systems programme, and has designed field-based evaluations for ILO, USAID, WorldFish, IRC, CARE, World Vision, and DFAT. His operating principle: research designed around what the researcher finds answerable is not research — it is noise.
Rashed Mamun
Founder
Rashed has spent 13 years building and managing programmes where the gap between a good design and a changed system is everything. He managed a USD 22 million multi-country development portfolio across Bangladesh, Myanmar, Timor-Leste, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan — coordinating 150+ specialists across five countries. He built the BYEAH enterprise support network from the ground up, increasing earnings for 500 entrepreneurs by 75% within a year. He now leads Verde Nexus with a focus on green economy transition, AI-enabled organisations, and investment readiness for social enterprises.