Mahmudul Hasan Sohag

Mahmudul Hasan Sohag (Bengali: মাহমুদুল হাসান সোহাগ; born 7 June 1981) is a Bangladeshi entrepreneur. He is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Rokomari.com, which initially started as an online bookstore. He developed the first Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in Bangladesh. He was also the Academic Councilor of Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad. He is the chairman of OnnoRokom Group.

Early life Sohag was born on 7 June 1981, in a village of Sarishabari Upazila of Jamalpur District. His father is Abul Hossain who is a school teacher and mother is Monowara Begum. Hossain was an officer of the postal department. Sohag is the youngest child of parents, two daughters and one son.

Education Sohag completed his primary education at Naseeruddin Kindergarten, a local children's school. Then he passed SSC from Riazuddin Talukder High School in 1998. After that he got admission in higher secondary in Dhaka College. Later he got admission to the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Before passing he worked for some time as a research assistant in BUET's Institute of Information and Communication Technology.

Personal life In a 2021 interview with BBC Bangla, Sohag discussed his transition from atheism to Islam. He was selected as the Bangladesh representative to participate in the Entrepreneur Exchange Program organized by the University of Oklahoma, USA in 2012.

Rokomari.com Rokomari.com is an online product shopping website in Bangladesh. Their EVMs have been used in Bangladesh elections, including the 2015 Dhaka South City Corporation election. Pi Labs Bangladesh Company has also invented Easy OMR Solution software.

OnnoRokom Group OnnoRokom Group is the parent organization of various organizations. Various projects and initiatives have been taken under the OnnoRokom Group. Rokomari.com is a part of the OnnoRokom Web Service. Among these initiatives are:

Pi Labs Bangladesh Limited: This service includes Electronic Voting Machine (EVM), Solar inverter, Solar Charge Controller, Industry Automation, Vehicle Tracking System and many more. OnnoRokom Software Limited OnnoRokom Projukti Limited OnnoRokom Electronics Company Limited OnnoRokom Solutions: Import-Export OnnoRokom Web Service Limited OnnoRokom Publications Limited OnnoRokom Science Box It was launched in December 2000 in Dhaka, and primarily focuses on the science stream on academic and admission exam studies.