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Leadership & governance

Accountability sits
in one room

Md. Zakir Hossain, Chairman

Md. Zakir Hossain

Chairman

01 Chairman’s message

An enterprise this size earns the right to exist twice: once from its customers, and once from the country it operates in.

Our companies were built in different decades, in different industries, by people who mostly did not know each other. What they share is a way of working — conservative with money, uncompromising on delivery, and unwilling to solve a problem by cutting a corner that someone downstream will pay for.

My role, and the board’s, is to protect that. Growth is easy to buy and hard to keep. We would rather keep it.

02 The board

Head
office

Four officers carry group-level responsibility. Each operating company has its own managing director reporting into this board.

Md. Zakir Hossain

Chairman

Tanvir Ahmed Chowdhury

Managing Director

Nusrat Jahan Rahman

Director, Finance

A. K. M. Shafiqul Islam

Company Secretary

03 Governance

The
framework

Every company reports into the same governance structure regardless of size. The controls below are set centrally and audited at company level.

01

Board oversight

Quarterly board meetings with standing reports on performance, liquidity, safety and litigation from every company.

02

Audit & assurance

External statutory audit supported by an internal audit function reporting independently of company management.

03

Risk register

Operational, financial, regulatory and environmental risk tracked centrally with named owners and review dates.

04

Delegated authority

Written limits on spend, borrowing, hiring and contracting at each management tier, reviewed annually.

05

Code of conduct

Anti-bribery, conflict-of-interest and procurement rules applying to directors, staff and contracted suppliers alike.

06

Whistleblowing

A confidential reporting route that bypasses company management and reaches the board directly.

04 Company leadership

Who runs
what

Operating authority sits with each managing director. The head office does not intervene in daily operations.

CompanyManaging Director
Sandton RefineryEngr. Mizanur Rahman
Sandton PlasticsFarhana Kabir
Sandton SecuritiesImtiaz Uddin Ahmed
Sandton PropertiesShahriar Kabir Bhuiyan
Sandton Sea ResourcesCapt. Rafiqul Alam
Sandton CommunicationsSadia Islam Haque
Sandton SilicaEngr. Delwar Hossain