People
The firm is new. The people are not.
Fulcrum has no corporate track record and will not pretend otherwise. What it has is people who spent their careers inside the operating side of commercial aviation, and who know how these decisions actually get made.
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Khan Musharraf Hussein
Founding principal
Thirty years at Biman Bangladesh Airlines, from public relations officer in 1989 to General Manager across five divisions. He has been the airline’s spokesperson, run its flight catering subsidiary, headed its security function, and negotiated its vehicle procurement in Japan.
MA in Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka. Trained at George Washington University, the Royal Institute of Public Administration in London, the Boeing Marketing Academy, and IATA in Singapore.
khanhussein@fulcrumtriad.com2016 – 2019
General Manager, Printing & Publications
Ran the carrier's in-house print operation and its 70 staff, setting policy and priorities across clerical, graphic, press and bindery functions.
2014 – 2016
General Manager, Biman Flight Catering Centre
Led 700 staff at the facility supplying in-flight meals to roughly 20 airlines operating through Dhaka. Annual profit doubled in each of two consecutive years, and a major kitchen renovation restored the centre's standing as a regional brand in its own right.
2011 – 2016
General Manager, Public Relations
The airline's spokesperson, reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Directed a team of twenty across branding, events, advertising and publications on budgets of $1–3M, and built the event programme from the ground up, including new aircraft induction ceremonies and the launch of the frequent flyer programme.
2010 – 2011
Deputy General Manager, Motor Transport
A 300-strong division running a fleet of nearly 100 vehicles around the clock. Travelled to the Mitsubishi plant in Japan to negotiate a 31-microbus procurement, saving the airline roughly two crore taka.
2009 – 2010
Deputy General Manager, Security
Head of Security: overall security policy for senior management approval, company-wide standards, and risk analysis and threat assessment capability. Established an Emergency Response Centre near the international airport.
2004 – 2009
Deputy General Manager, Public Relations
Communications and public information strategy for the carrier. Orchestrated the airline's first rebranding, run with Boeing's branding professionals over roughly two years and twenty people.
2000 – 2004
Deputy Chief Instructor, Airlines Training Centre
Training administration and course design, including a new course introduced under the title 'Towards a Paperless Office'.
1989 – 2000
Manager and Public Relations Officer
Press, publications and marketing communications. Assistant Editor of the in-flight magazine for twelve years, and coordinator of the month-long Bangladesh Festival in London in 1999.
The team
Three disciplines, one screen.
Muhammad Abdul Wadud
Safety & Compliance
Thirty-six years inside airline safety and quality, including 24 years building and running Safety Management Systems and 15 running Quality Management Systems at Biman Bangladesh Airlines and US-Bangladesh Airlines. He led IOSA registration and renewal audits for over a decade, has run more than 80 internal and external safety and quality audits, and served three years as a safety inspector with Bangladesh's Civil Aviation Authority. At Fulcrum he leads the audit trail behind every screen: maintenance records, safety documentation and regulatory standing checked before an aircraft reaches a client's shortlist.
Ayaz Khan
Data & Scoring
A statistician completing a Master of Arts in Statistics at Columbia University, where he is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His work is building auditable, production-grade models: fraud detection systems, natural language pipelines over regulatory filings, and machine learning tools deployed against live enterprise data. At Fulcrum he applies that discipline to scoring, turning a tender's published formula into the arithmetic behind every recommendation, so a concession is priced rather than guessed at.
Fatin Khan
Operations
Ten years building and running operating businesses, most recently leading product and regulatory strategy for a cross-border real-estate platform, translating legal requirements into working roadmaps across jurisdictions. He has sourced and negotiated with more than a dozen vendors and built the operational infrastructure behind ventures he founded and scaled himself. At Fulcrum he runs the mechanics of a bid: compliance matrices, submission logistics, and the deadlines that decide whether a qualified offer is even read.
Disclosure
Where we came from, and what we do about it.
Our founding principal spent three decades at a state-owned flag carrier and left it in 2019. We would rather you read that here than find it later.
That history is why the compliance position on this site exists in the detail it does. Someone who has watched a national airline’s procurement from the inside knows exactly how an intermediary can be misused, and exactly what it costs an institution when one is.
- We act for aircraft owners and lessors. We do not act for airlines, and we do not accept a fee from both sides of a transaction.
- Our principal takes no part in any mandate involving his former employer. That recusal is written into our engagement terms, not left to judgement.
- Where a counterparty is state-owned, we use published tender channels only. No introductions, no informal approaches, at any stage.
- Every mandate is documented before work begins, and our agency is disclosed to both sides.
Building the bench
We are hiring the technical side.
Screening at gate 04 and gate 05 needs someone who reads borescope reports, life-limited part traces and shop visit records for a living. We are adding that capability rather than claiming it. If that is your background, we would like to hear from you.
