A S F Rahman is Chairman of the Beximco Group, the largest private sector industrial group in Bangladesh . During the past 45 years A S F Rahman has played the leading role with his brother, Salman F Rahman, in building up the Group's industrial and service activities. He has presided over an expansion and deepening of the Group's interests, leading the flagship investments in textiles. The Group has been on the cutting edge of new technology and innovation in Bangladesh with an emphasis on Total Quality Management and international standards of corporate governance. With the Group's exemplary performance in exports A S F Rahman has been awarded Presidents' Export Trophy on several occasions. In addition to accomplishments as Chairman of the Group, he has been active in continuously developing strategies targeting social welfare and poverty alleviation across the country.

Mr. Salman F Rahman, the Deputy Chairman of the Beximco Group, has been one of the driving forces in the emergence of the Group as the largest industrial entity operating in the private sector in Bangladesh today. For the past four and a half decades he has been working closely with his brother, pioneering and expanding operations in a varied number of sectors particularly pharmaceuticals, ceramics, media and property development. But aside from his role as the Deputy Chairman of the group Salman F Rahman has had an ever increasing role in expanding the corporate climate and enhancing the role of corporate governance in the nation. His service to the business community is exhibited by his terms of Presidency of The Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh Aushad Shilpa Samity, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association, The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the SAARC Chambers of Commerce and industry. He is also the founder and chairman of the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute, a leading think tank on economic and social policy.

He has also applied this tireless dynamism for social welfare and is an active philanthropist extraordinarily active in supporting and working with poverty alleviation and human rights groups. One of the main corporate facets which the Beximco Group brought into the business environment of Bangladesh is its emphasis on Corporate Social Responsibility and an active involvement in regional and national activities. Mr Rahman is also the Chairman of the Abahani Krira Chakra a leading sporting club.

Since independence Bangladesh has come a long way, and the Beximco Group of Companies is honoured to have had a role in the development of its parent nation. The Group has worked with a simple philosophy; identify an important need and then do everything possible to successfully satiate that need, in a manner which best facilitates the well being of the nation. As a result Beximco has focussed on those industries which give Bangladesh a competitive advantage in the global market place in many cases creating the industries for the first time in the region. Throughout its four and a half decade journey the Group has been one of the leading innovators in the country.

Presently Beximco Group comprises twenty one companies of which five are listed with the Dhaka Stock Exchange employing over 35,000 personnel and is the largest private sector industrial conglomerate in the nation. . In the course of its growth, it has created industrial and management capabilities that will serve the country for generations to come. It was the first local conglomerate to embrace an international corporate structure which is the foundation of its success. BEXIMCO's industrial businesses include jute, textiles, basic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and ceramics. BEXIMCO's non-industrial undertakings are focused on real estate and construction, engineering, media, information technology, trading and financial services.

It is the creation and expansion of businesses critical to Bangladesh 's development, businesses, which are developed and run by Bangladeshis, businesses that develop technologies and practices specific to the needs of the country, which is the defining characteristic of the BEXIMCO story.