MA Kashem has been elected as the chairman of the Board of Directors of Southeast Bank PLC. He was unanimously elected in the bank’s 743rd Board Meeting held on Sunday.
Kashem is the founder chairman and sponsor director of Southeast Bank. He is the chairman of Rose Corner (Pvt) Limited. A member of North South University Trust and a founder life-member of North South University Foundation, Kashem has served as its four times chairman and was also chairman of NSU Foundation’s Endowment Committee several times, according to a press release.
He is the former president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI). He was the chairman of Arbitration Tribunal of FBCCI. He is the former chairman of the Association of Private Universities of Bangladesh.
Kashem was a member of Board of Trustees of Hamdard Laboratories (WAQF) Bangladesh, the leading producer of herbal medicines in the sub-continent for over 17 (seventeen) years. He was the President of SAHIC Trust (Society for Assistance to Hearing Impaired Children). He is the life member of SAHIC.
He is an eminent industrialist, renowned patron of education, distinguished philanthropist and an active social worker. He was the winner of "President Export Trophy Award" for the year 1982- 83 and 1983-84 for excellent export performance.
Kashem also got "CR Das Gold" Medal for excellent contribution in Industrial sector in the year 1995. He was awarded the "Highest Tax Payer-2011" and also in 2016-2017 by National Board of Revenue. Recently, he has been awarded Abu Rushd Memorial Award for promoting higher Education.
He was the leader of 20-member FBCCI Trade delegation to Far Eastern Countries in the year 1986. He was also the leader of five-member government delegations to the UK, the USA and Canada sponsored by the UNDP in 1987 and leader of 12 members Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) government delegations to EEC countries in 1985.
As an industrialist he travelled almost all major cities of the world many times on his own business, led FBCCI trade delegations and also North South University.
He has established a trust named M Kashem Trust to foster education to the primary and midlevel students of Schools in his locality. Moreover, a general Hospital of 50 Beds in the name of "Tareque Memorial-Ibrahim General Hospital" has been established by the trust in Chhagalnaiya Upazila, Feni. It is a non-profit organisation. The trust also awarded stipends and scholarships to the meritorious students during the last couple of years.
As a philanthropist, Kashem set up Kashem Complex at Darogarhat, Chhagalnaiya which contents madrasahs, mosques, Eidgah, public graveyard and other training centres and erected free dwelling houses for the poor and destitute people of his locality.
