Ashik Muntakim
Senior Business Consultant
Ashik Muntakim is a Senior Business Consultant at LightCastle Partners, with over 7 years of experience across the startup and corporate landscape, he specializes in structuring financial innovations, driving business intelligence, and preparing early-stage enterprises for scalable growth and investments. His experience spans at the intersection of venture building, impact investment, and operational strategy.
Ashik Muntakim is a Senior Business Consultant at LightCastle Partners, with over 7 years of experience across the startup and corporate landscape, he specializes in structuring financial innovations, driving business intelligence, and preparing early-stage enterprises for scalable growth and investments. His experience spans at the intersection of venture building, impact investment, and operational strategy.
Most recently, Ashik served as a Venture Acceleration Specialist at Build Bangladesh, an impact investment company. In this role, he managed portfolio evaluation and startup scouting for its accelerator programs and portfolio ventures across key sectors like health, fintech, climate, agritech and rmg ecosystem. His expertise in designing investment readiness strategies—coaching founders on financial modeling and pitch narratives was a core task while managing blended finance and catalytic fund portfolios to unlock capital for underserved markets.
Prior to that, Ashik spent nearly six years at Healthport Bangladesh, a leading health-tech aggregator. As Chief of Staff, he spearheaded operations and investment strategy, scaling daily service capacity to 5×, introducing three new revenue channels, and expanding the operational team. Crucially, he led the company’s financial modeling and growth forecasting, playing an integral role in securing multiple strategic investments.
Earlier in his career, Ashik built foundational expertise in strategy and research within the financial and consulting sectors. He worked as an Assistant Vice President at bluKonsult GLOBAL, where he advised early-stage businesses on pricing, valuation, go-to-market strategies and investment readiness. He also served as a Strategic Business Planner at City Brokerage Limited (a subsidiary of The City Bank Ltd), gaining deep exposure across stock market trading, research, and investments.
Ashik holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from University of Dhaka and a Master of Economics in Development Economics from the Dhaka School of Economics.
