(Photo from Fahim’s internship with Grameen Bank, which was funded by the Center for Entrepreneurship)
Fahim Aziz ’15 (an economics and mathematics major from Dhaka, Bangladesh) first started working with APEX before it was even called APEX. In 2011, Fahim worked with the Center for Entrepreneurship to get help with an internship with Grameen Bank. The Center helped him find funding, work with an advisor, and create a plan to get the most out of his internship. Ever since, Fahim has continued to work with APEX and the Center for Entrepreneurship to find guidance and resources. APEX helped Fahim find an internship at an IT firm where he ended up creating a pricing policy for one of the firm’s products — a huge responsibility for an intern. Fahim believes the structure that APEX brought to his internships was crucial in helping him enrich those experiences.
Most recently, Fahim launched a new website called Backpack, which he describes as a “peer to peer platform that connects shoppers to travelers to give everyone access to the global market.” The website, started only weeks ago, has been incredibly successful in terms of web traffic. Fahim credits some of the website’s early success to the years of experience he’s gained at the College of Wooster with the help of APEX.
By Madeleine O’Neill ’16