Personal and business history of different company's CEO, Chairman of Bangladesh

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Mr. M Anis Ud Dowla, the Chairman of ACI Limited, is one of the most successful personalities in Bangladesh business circle. He has maintained a high profile, and has provided leadership to business community in different capacities. Mr. Dowla served in the British Oxygen Group of UK in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kenya for 27 years, including 12 years as Managing Director of Bangladesh Oxygen Ltd. In 1987, he became the Group Managing Director of the three ICI companies in Bangladesh. With experience gathered while working with British Multi-nationals for over 32 years, Mr. Dowla has continued to maintain the multinational culture and management style in ACI, with especial emphasis on quality, productivity and customer services.

M. Dowla was the President of Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce & Industry for three terms in 1975, 1976 & 1977 and the President of Bangladesh Employers' Federation for four terms in 1976, 1977, 1994 and 1995

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Mohammed Shoeb, (born on February 9, 1968) was unanimously elected Chairman of Phoenix Insurance Company Ltd on the 2nd August 2006, a leading general insurance company with operations spanning most parts of the country. An iconic figure, Mr. Shoeb also holds several key positions on various regulatory and professional boards. In retrospect, the 43-years-old has showed remarkable efficiency in discharging responsibilities he has shouldered from the beginning till now.

Mr. Shoeb commenced his business career as a director of The City Bank Ltd from 1990 - 2007.  He served as Vice-Chairman of the City Bank Ltd for the period between 2001-2002. Prior to assuming the most desired office of the Chairman of Phoenix Insurance, he prepared himself through his hard work in the company as vice-chairman.  His experiences gradually rose to an impressive level since, he has been serving as Vice-Chairman of Phoenix Finance, Phoenix Securities, Phoenix Group of Industries, and as a director of a good number of companies including Phoenix Spinning Mills, Phoenix Textiles Mills, Rangdhanu Spinning Mills and Appollo Ispat Complex Ltd.

Mr. Shoeb has played a pivotal role in the developing of the online-three-tier, Insurance Software System named (CIIS) for Phoenix Insurance which has been developed in collaboration with Ibcs/Primax using "State-of-The-Art" Oracle, Client-Server technology and is being used today locally and over the Internet at many different private sector Insurance Companies of Bangladesh.  Dynamic and forward-moving Mr. Shoeb is widely accredited with introducing IT-infrastructure in the companies he served.  He facilitated the online banking service for the City Bank ltd., and introduced international credit card 'Visa' for the banking industry.

Almost 20 years in various top positions of different companies Mohammed Shoeb had opportunities to work with the bigwigs of the business organizations and members of executive committees and also with highly qualified and dedicated staff.  His thirst for learning combined with his intelligence has amazingly created his forward-looking and visionary enterprises.  As a result, he tremendously succeeded in gaining respect of his peers and in building trust and confidence of his business partners and clients in the services rendered by him.

Mr. Shoeb attributes his success in handling the challenges his position brings to his professional competence and integrity, association of honest and sincere people, his good communication skills, stewardship and loyalty. To salute his entrepreneurial excellence and exemplary contribution to Bangladeshi business, the International "Who's Who Historical Society" included him in their list of 2005-2006 and 2011 edition of professionals. "Who's Who Historical Society" usually recognizes the achievement of qualified professionals across the globe following in-depth interviews with them and reviewing their business successes.

Mohammed Shoeb, born and raised in the capital city of Dhaka, holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from University of Waterloo, UK.  He obtained his earlier education from International School of Singapore and Green Herald International School in Dhaka.  He is a permanent member of Dhaka club Ltd. & Gulshan club Ltd.

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Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG  is a social worker with dual Bangladeshi/British nationality and the founder and chairman of BRAC (formerly, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee). For his outstanding contributions to social improvement, he has received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the UNDP Mahbub Ul Haq Award and the inaugural Clinton Global Citizen Award. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the 2010 New Year Honours for services in tackling poverty and empowering the poor in Bangladesh and globally.

Early life

Fazle Hasan Abed was born in 1936 into the esteemed Hasan family, in Baniachong, Habiganj District, Bangladesh. He passed the matriculation exam from Pabna Zilla School and went on to complete his higher secondary education from Dhaka College.

He left home to attend University of Glasgow, where, and in an effort to break away from tradition and do something radically different - he studied Naval Architecture. But there was little work in ship building in Pakistan and a career in Naval Architecture would make returning home difficult. With that in mind, Abed joined the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in London, completing his professional education in 1962.

Abed returned to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to join Shell Oil Company and quickly rose to head its finance division. His time at Shell exposed Abed to the inner workings of a large conglomerate and provided him with insight into corporate management, which would become invaluable to him later in life.

It was during his time at Shell that the devastating cyclone of 1970 hit the eastern coastal regions of the country, killing 300,000 people. The cyclone had a profound effect on Abed - in the face of such devastation, the comforts and perks of a corporate executive's life ceased to have any attraction for him. Together with friends, Abed created HELP, an organization that provided relief and rehabilitation to the worst affected in the island of Manpura, which had lost three quarters of its population in the disaster.

Soon after, Bangladesh’s own struggle for independence from Pakistan began and circumstances forced Abed to leave the country. He found refuge in England, where he set up Action Bangladesh to lobby for his country’s independence with the governments of Europe.

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                                        Analysis and findings:

1.Mr. Samson H Chowdhury is the Chairman of square group: Mr. Samson H Chowdhury was hard working person. He is an innovative person & honest man. He creates some new ideas and build a group of companies. He achieved a business award . Under his dynamic leadership, SQUARE is set to continue its progress globally. He also achieved "Special contribution in country's industrial and commercial sectors for the year 2003" by "Merchantile Bank Award 2003". Recipient of NBR Award one of the Highest Tax-Payers in 2007-2008, So he is a successful Business man of  Bangladesh.
2. Mr. Amjad Khan Chowdhury is the Chairman of  Pran group: Mr. Amjad Khan is the honest & integrity person in the Bangladesh. PRAN group tried to Programmed for Rural Advancement Nationally and has become Bangladesh’s largest grower and processor of fruits and vegetables. For Mr. Chowdhury, now a leading businessman.
3.Dr. Khater Massad  is the Chairman of  RAK ceramics Ltd: Dr. Khater Massad  is an honesty and innovative person . He also provided good quality ceramics to the customer, he is a global leading Business man . "Excellence through Hi-Quality Products and Services so as to provide The Best Value for Money."
4.Sohail Rahman is the Chairman of  Beximco group: He is a distinguished business personality of the country and has received many awards and accolades for his outstanding contribution to country’s industrial development. He is a creative person in the Bangladesh.
5.Mr. Akij Uddin is the Chairman of Akij group: He is an honesty any creative person of the business world. Akij group is the most prestigious and leading industrial groups in Bangladesh.


6.Mr. Morshed Alam is the Chairman of  Bengal group: Mr. Morshed  he established Bengal Plastic Industries Ltd., the largest plastic processing industry in the country. He is a dynamic leadership the Group also received the Export Trophy from the Prime Minister of Bangladesh for our contribution in exports. Mr. Alam ia an experienced and resourceful entrepreneur. He received his BS in Business in 1968.
 7.Amin Mohammad is the Chairman of  Amin Mohammad Group: Amin is an honesty, integrity &creative person. He establish Amin Mohammad Foundation Ltd one of the leading developers of the country. He also made high quality building in Bangladesh, so he is a successful businessman.
8.Mr. M. A. Hashem is the Chairman of  Partex  group: He is an honest, creative & hardworking Businessman. He is committed to the prosperity of  Bangladesh, he play a positive role in alleviating poverty and generating employment an important objective of our country.
9.Md. Abdul Jalil is the Chairman of  Mercantile  Bank Ltd: He established a Mercantile Bank which is provide banking facility to the customer. He is an honest, creative & hardworking Businessman. He is a  provide efficient banking services and to contribute socio-economic development of the country.
10.Dr. Muhammad Yunus is the Chairman of Grameen  bank: Dr. Muhammad Yunus was born in 28 June 1940. He  is a Bangladeshi banker, economist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts through microcredit to create economic and social development from below Yunus himself has received several other national and international honors. He is trying to poverty alleviation of rural people, so he is a successful businessman.

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Abdul Awal Mintoo

Abdul Awal Mintoo was born in 1949 in Aleyarpur, a small and remote village in Feni district of Bangladesh. He belongs to a family of landowners who initiated his primary education in the village school. He later pursued high school and college education in Feni, Comilla and in the Juldia Marine Academy in the port city of Chittagong. As a merchant marine officer between 1968-1971, he travelled along coasts of four continents. During the Bangladesh liberation struggle in 1971 he sought political asylum in the United States where he pursued higher studies. He received his BSc degree in Transportation Science (1973) and MSc in Transportation Management (1977) from the Maritime College, State University of New York.

Having served a shipping company in the United States for eight years, Mr.Mintoo confronted a moment of truth when in 1982 he decided to give up the security of his ongoing successful career in international shipping and returned to work in Bangladesh.

Abdul Awal Mintoo began his career aspring ot be a ship captain, but has now turned into a businessman and has achieved outstanding success as a leading entrepreneur of Bangladesh.  He advocates societal structure that simultaneously embraces both the market and the government.  A fearless champion of the cause of strengthening the economic infrastructure of Bangladesh, Abdul Awal Mintoo’s business edifice was built by his capitalizing on the rich and varied experience, steady resolve and an indomitable spirit.

Abdul Awal Mintoo was first elected President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBBCI) in 1998 and was re-elected for a second term in 2003.

He is founder of Multimode Group Bangladesh.

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M Shoeb Chowdhury, CEO HSTC Ltd

M Shoeb Chowdhury is a young, energetic entrepreneur having a wide and dynamic profile in various business activities. He has achieved lots of experiences in his multi-business activities.

He is also a valued member of different prestigious and out standing organizations like International Institute of Business Analysis, Bangladesh Chapter(IIBA), Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI), Standing Committee on ICT & Telecommunication, South Asian Business Forum, CEO Forum, American Chamber of Commerce and much more. Currently he is performing himself as the managing director in different successful organizations. He believes that the human resources and the people of our country are the key force to achieve his mission and objectives. He has a great contribution to increase our nationwide information and communication technologies.

And for his contribution in different areas he achieved Bangabandhu Award 2008, National Human Rights Award 2008, Sher-e-Bangla Award 2008, Poet Jasimuddin Award in 2005, Mawlana A. Hamid Khan Bhasani Award in 2004.He is randomly attending international conferences and he is very much hopeful that he can develop our country as a competitor of many ICT developed countries very soon and he wish that everybody will be helpful to full fill his wish.

The personal website of M Shoeb Chowdhury is http://www.shoebchowdhury.org

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Yussuf Abdullah Harun

Mr. Yussuf Abdullah Harun is an eminent leader of the Bangladesh business community. A fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (FCA), he is Chairman of several business organizations: Asia Insurance Ltd., Incontrade Ltd., Incontrad Holdings Ltd., Insoft Systems Ltd., Bangla German Latex Co. Ltd. He is a former President of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), former Vice President and currently Adviser of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He is a sponsor Director and former Chairman of Southeast Bank Ltd. Other positions he held include: ex-Director of IDCOL (Infrastructure Development Company Ltd.) and IIFC (Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Company); ex-member of Revenue Reforms Commission of Bangladesh and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Development Committee of Bangladesh.

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Professor Iqbal Z. Quadir

Professor Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and founder of Grameenphone Limited in Bangladesh. For nearly twenty years, he has been advocating for the use of mobile phones to empower ordinary people in low-income countries and for commerce-based solutions for their advancement.

While pursuing a career in investment banking in New York in the early 1990s, Quadir recognized that the ensuing digital revolution could bring connectivity to 100 million people living in rural Bangladesh. To make this vision a reality, he established a New York based company, Gonofone Development Corp (meaning “phones for the masses” in Bengali), which became the launch pad for Grameenphone, Bangladesh’s largest phone company providing access to over 22 million subscribers irrespective of their geographic location or economic standing.

From 2001-2004, Quadir taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, focusing on the democratizing effects of technologies in developing countries. In 2005, he moved to MIT where he co-founded the journal Innovations (MIT Press) and founded the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, which promotes discourse and action on bottom-up development and administers a highly competitive fellowship for MIT graduate students who intend to launch enterprises in low-income counties.

Quadir holds both an MBA and an MA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BS with honors from Swarthmore College.

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Abdul Awal Mintoo was born in 1949 in Aleyarpur, a small and remote village in Feni district of Bangladesh. He belongs to a family of landowners who initiated his primary education in the village school. He later pursued high school and college education in Feni, Comilla and in the Juldia Marine Academy in the port city of Chittagong. As a merchant marine officer between 1968-1971, he traveled along coasts of four continents. During the Bangladesh liberation struggle in 1971 he sought political asylum in the United States where he pursued higher studies. He received his BSc degree in Transportation Science (1973) and MSc in Transportation Management (1977) from the Maritime College, State University of New York.

Abdul Awal Mintoo began his career aspiring to be a ship captain, but has now turned into a businessman and has achieved outstanding success as a leading entrepreneur of Bangladesh. Mr. Mintoo has been credited for playing a significant role in the development of Bangladesh. Starting with encouraging remittances through formal channels, which contributes significantly to the development of the country by bringing Western Union to Bangladesh. For his leadership, he was elected twice as the President of Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry and has been recognized through numerous awards. He is founder of Multimode Group Bangladesh.

Multimode Group
Address: Anchor Tower 108, Bir Uttam C.R. Dutta Road
Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh.
Phone: +88 02 861 95 21-2, 8615895-9
Fax: +88 2 861 88 62
Email: info@multimodebd.com

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