Mr. Monzur
Kadir Shafi is a first generation entrepreneur who partnered with two other
young business professionals at a young age to start a hospitality business in
Hamtramck, Michigan, in 1998.
Mr. Shafi,
graduated in 1990. To sharpen his skills, he obtained multiple training in
hospitality business on a global scale. His first venture into the business
started in New York City where he quickly turned marketing skills into new
business entrepreneurship and his ‘experiment’ in Michigan earned him credits
and accolades from all including the Better Business Bureau of Michigan and
Detroit News. His interest in US politics also allowed him to be known by
notable politicians in Michigan, like Senator Carl Levin, Senator Gary Peters
and US Congressmen Hansan Clark, John Conyers and others. His success in
restaurant business, earned him an interview with CNN, which was telecasted
globally.
He belongs to a
Muslim family in Sylhet. His father, Late Muhibur Rahman Chowdhury and his
family also influenced him to be a successful business entrepreneur. But his desire
to enter into Hospitality industry from a simple life in Sylhet to United
States of America and to gain recognition in the society was purely because of
his hard diligent work and his persistent in becoming successful.
Mr. Shafi is a
widely travelled personality and participated in different trainings &
seminars at home and abroad. He is a Director of Royal Educare Limited, that
established two preschools in the name of Eurokids in the cities of Dhaka and
Sylhet and also established The Royal Institute of Smart Education (RISE)-a
premium International English Medium school in Sylhet City. Apart from these,
Mr. Shafi is a member of the Trustee Board of North East University Bangladesh
and also a Vice President of Bangladesh Scouts, Sylhet Region.
Mr. Shafi
believes in calculated risk taking, self-confidence, persuasion, innovation,
the capacity to cope with challenges, hard work and commitment. These are the
factors which contribute to the success of Mr. Shafi as an entrepreneur. He
gives maximum importance to good judgement, time, cost & quality management
of the project he gets involved in. After obtaining diversified knowledge and
experience in different field of business, he joined Baraka Patenga Power
Limited (BPPL) as Project Director and by dint of his excelled was assigned the
post of Deputy Managing Director & Head of Finance of BPPL. Presently he is
acting as the Managing Director of the Baraka Patenga Power Limited.
Director | Baraka Power Limited |
Managing Director | Baraka Patenga Power Limited |
Chairman | Karnaphuli Power Limited |
Chairman | Karnaphuli Harbour Limited |
Chairman | Baraka Securities Limited |
Director | Baraka Fashions Limited |
Director | Baraka Shikalbaha Power Limited |
Director | Baraka Apparels Limited |
Director | Queens Healthcare Limited |
Director | Royal Educare Limited |
Director | Royal Homes Limited |
Director | Bangladesh Independent Power Producers’ Association (BIPPA) |
Board of Trustee | North East University Bangladesh |
President | Atharia High School & College |