Saiful Islam
By day, he's part of a payment gateway company's team in Saudi Arabia. In the hours around that, he's been quietly building two businesses seven time zones from where he actually works — one rewriting how people in Bangladesh shop online, the other growing brands most people haven't heard of yet.
Saiful Islam is a Bangladeshi entrepreneur based in Saudi Arabia. He works professionally at a payment gateway company — and alongside that, he founded and runs Pikko.shop, an e-commerce marketplace, and Bayora Studio, a digital marketing agency serving clients across borders.
Every person on the Bayora Studio team works from Bangladesh. Saiful directs from Saudi Arabia. On paper, that's a leadership challenge — in practice, his team describes it as the opposite: quick to respond, hands-on when it matters, and never feeling like the distance is real. That's not an accident either; it's a specific way of working he's built on purpose.
Neither e-commerce nor digital marketing is where he started professionally. He learned both by building inside them — the kind of learning that shows up later as instinct, not just theory. It's the same instinct he's counting on the next time the ground shifts again.
He doesn't just advise from the outside — every strategy he'd suggest to someone else, he's already tested on his own businesses first. That's the difference between an opinion and an experience. Open to conversations around business consulting, partnerships, and growth — on either side of that line.