Mr. Gulam Rabbani Chowdhury
has a vast experience in machine manufacturing, real estate, power, education
and readymade garments industry. His dynamism of entrepreneurship and
management discipline played a key role in making a new startup “Baraka Group”
to a huge success.
Mr. Rabbani, a very
successful entrepreneur and negotiator, inspire NRB investors to invest in
Bangladesh. He led a huge capital investment in an extremely complex
operation-oriented business like power generation successfully. Mr. Rabbani
first started Baraka Power as its Managing Director and presently he is leading
the Company as its Director. With the efforts of Mr. Chowdhury, the success
story of Baraka Power Limited set a new milestone for NRB investors,
encouraging them to make further investment in the power sector. Accordingly, the
second power project of Baraka Family named Baraka Patenga Power Limited was
formed under his leadership. Inspired by the success of these two power plants,
he is leading another two HFO fired power plants of 110MW and 105MW at
Chattogram namely Karnaphuli Power Limited and Baraka Shikalbaha Power Limited
respectively. Developing his entrepreneurial vision further afield, he ventured
into the readymade garments industry and started Baraka Fashions Limited; a ten
lines capacity woven garments located at Tongi, Gazipur.
Before starting Baraka Power
Limited, Mr. Chowdhury with the support of a group of NRB investors
successfully established an innovative and unique large-scale townscape vision
by the name of “Royal City” in Sylhet, on 2006; which is a project of Royal
Homes Limited. It has made a significant impact in the future of Sylhet as a
fast-developing city, providing well planned residential and commercial
facilities.
During his career, Mr.
Chowdhury identified the lack of high international standard educational
facilities in Sylhet. Along with a consortium of NRB investors, he has been a
key figure in establishing a leading educational organization by the name of
Royal Educare Limited (REL). REL currently comprises of educational facilities
from Eurokids Kindergarten up to and including primary and secondary schooling
in RISE (Royal Institute of Smart Education). RISE school has incorporated the
world respected and renowned Cambridge Curriculum. The Cambridge body has
approved RISE as one of the best technology based premium international schools
in the country, located in the heart of Sylhet.
Mr. Chowdhury started his
career at a very early age during his student life. In 1984 he joined an
organization named New Engineering Works Limited. As a part of his work
activities there, he learned about tea state machine manufacturing process and
earned knowledge about practical uses of metallurgical and mechanical
engineering. There he got ample opportunity to work very closely with some of
the world-renowned natural gas exploration companies. During these times he
realized the vast potentiality of entering into heavy industrial machineries
based activities in Bangladesh. As a derive to use his practical knowledge and
experience in the machine tools industries more effectively and efficiently,
Mr. Chowdhury started his business career as Founder Managing Director by
establishing Alim Industries Ltd. (An agricultural machinery manufacturing
company) in the early 1990’s. His enthusiasm, hard work, dedication, dynamism,
foresight and skilled leadership took the company into one of the top-rated
companies in the Agro Machinery Manufacturing sector. As a result, the company
achieved a Presidential Award by innovating modernized agro based machine tools
in the Bengali year 1395.
Mr. Chowdhury is also
actively involved with some professional organizations where he significantly
contributes to achieve the respective organizations’ goals. He is an Executive
Member of Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies (BAPLC). He is a
former Vice President of Bangladesh Independent Power Producers’ Association
(BIPPA). Apart from these, as the Chairman of Makhfira Khanom & Mustafa
Chowdhury foundation, Mr. Rabbani is contributing a lot to develop the
socioeconomic condition of the deprived underprivileged people by providing
Free Education facilities, Mother and Child care, Health Care for senior
citizens, Providing House to the homeless, Rehabilitating the poor by helping
them to establish their own small businesses, Providing safe and clean drinking
water etc.
Mr. Chowdhury earned his
bachelor degree in science under the Chittagong University. He attended many
overseas trainings; specializing in metallurgy & manufacturing process,
gaining a deep understanding and knowledge of industrial manufacturing and
development. He has attended Business Leadership Forum on Smart Energy in
Italy. He has visited many countries and attended seminars, international
conferences and exhibitions such as in Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, France,
Germany, India, Italy, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco, Singapore, Thailand,
Turkey, UAE, UK and USA. As a result of the numerous business successes across
a variety of sectors, Mr. Chowdhury has received many accolades and corporate
awards.
Chairman | Baraka Patenga Power Limited |
Chairman | Baraka Shikalbaha Power Limited |
Chairman | Queens Healthcare Limited |
Director | Baraka Power Limited |
Director & Managing Director | Baraka Securities Limited |
Managing Director | Karnaphuli Power Limited |
Managing Director | Baraka Fashions Limited |
Managing Director | Baraka Apparels Limited |
Managing Director | Royal Educare Limited |
Managing Director | Royal Homes Limited |
Managing Director | Karnaphuli Harbour Limited |
Member | NRC (Baraka Power Limited) |
Member | NRC (Baraka Patenga Power Limited) |
Executive Committee Member 2022-23 | Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies |