Chairman

Education:

• Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Dhaka in 1965.
• Obtained diploma in banking.

Career:

“Divine Blessings Mixed with Hard Work Backed by Good Intension can Make Miracle” –  Mr. Rahman started his career in this spirit in 1965 with the then National Bank of Pakistan, now known as Sonali Bank Limited.

Then he shifted his job to Eastern Mercantile Bank Limited, at present it is Pubali Bank Limited in 1967 and continued up to 1971.

Immediately after liberation he concluded his service life and started a partnership business that had been extended to other ventures namely Ship-Recycling, Rubber plantation and Fisheries in small scale at Chittagong alongside GP/CI Sheet manufacturing plant at Dhaka. The “Camel” brand CI Sheet from his flag-ship GP/CI plant was very popular at that time and captured the lion-share as a premium-product in that market segment. Within two decades, Mr. Rahman gained the acceptability & trustworthiness based on proven track record of commitment & business ethics among the business community and financial institutions.

In 1999, the partnership business dissolved unevenly and he had to come out only with the ventures located in Chittagong and huge burden of bank loan. At the same year, Mr. Rahman started PHP Group considering his believe in Allah & his goodwill as business capital. With efficient management, wisdom & visionary leadership, his volume has been extended manifold that led him to form a corporate business in the name of PHP Group. He brought all businesses under this umbrella.

As a successful business and industrial entrepreneur his name and fame has been extended in the business circle. Besides this, he also gained a lot of versatile qualities like a resourceful trainer and fluent speaker in almost all discipline of education and business management but this is not the end.

He is also mentionable as a spiritual personality who strictly follows Sufism in his daily life and promotes TASAUF (philosophical path to Sufism) for mankind in the sub-continent.

With skillful management quality, he is an exceptional person and thus he developed much that aided to the growth of the national building activity.

Honors:

• Honorary Consul of Indonesia in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
• Chief Patron of Allama Rumi Society, Chittagong & Sufi Mizan Foundation.
• Speaker of “Islam as a Religion & Its Philosophy” in the Chittagong Television and “TASAUF” at ATN Bangla.
• President of Rotary Club of Agrabad, Chittagong.
• Vice President of Chittagong Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
• Life Time Member of Chittagong Maa-o-Shishu Hospital.
• Fellow of Paul Harry’s Foundation (Rotary International).
• Founding Sponsor of Independent University Bangladesh (IUB).

Awards:

Having blessed with a good number of exceptional qualities and exploration of excellence in different field of business, he has to his credit a good number of awards for his contribution in accelerating business growth.

He is the worthy son of the soil and paid tribute to his parents and followed the instructions of his parents as a symbol of ideology in his day-to-day life.