Saiful Islam re-elected MCCI president

Md Saiful Islam has been re-elected president of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI) for the year 2023.

The MCCI board of directors unanimously took the decision of re-electing Islam at a meeting on November 27 and then the decision was approved at an annual general meeting on December 14, the MCCI said in a press release today.

Islam, a leading entrepreneur and commercially important person since 1998, is now serving as managing director of Picard Bangladesh.

Besides, Kamran T Rahman, chairman and managing director of Pubali Jute Mills and Kapna Tea Company, and Habibullah N Karim, managing director and CEO of Technohaven Company, have been re-elected senior vice-president and vice-president respectively.

The members of the board of directors include Tanvir Ahmed, managing director of Sheltech, Syed Tareque Md Ali, managing director of Modern Industries (BD), Mohammad Naser Ezaz Bijoy, chief executive officer of Standard Chartered Bank, Bangladesh; Tapan Chowdhury, managing director of Square Pharmaceuticals, and Uzma Chowdhury, director of Agricultural Marketing Company.

Arif Dowla, managing director of Advanced Chemical Industries, Nihad Kabir, senior partner at the Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed & Associates, Anis A Khan, director of the W&W Grains Corporation, Adeeb Hossain Khan, senior partner at Rahman Rahman Huq, Golam Mainuddin, chairman of British American Tobacco Bangladesh Company, Hasan Mahmood, partner at the MJ Abedin & Co, Syed Nasim Manzur, managing director of Apex Footwear, and Simeen Rahman, managing director of Transcraft, are also members of the board of directors.