Masud Khan

Chairman

Masud Khan joined the Board in April 2013 as Independent Director and became the Chairman of the Board in April 2019. He is currently working as the Chief Advisor of the Board of Crown Cement Group Bangladesh. He is a seasoned professional with 44 years of work experience in leading multinational and local companies in Bangladesh. Prior to joining Crown Cement Group, he worked in LafargeHolcim Bangladesh as Chief Financial Officer for 18 years. Earlier, he worked for British American Tobacco in finance and related fields for 20 years both at home and abroad.

Mr. Masud is also an Independent director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Singer Bangladesh Limited and Community Bank Bangladesh PLC. His articles on professional and industry issues regularly feature in newspapers and international and local magazines. He regularly features on electronic media on talk shows and interviews and is often in the news for comments on industry and professional issues. He also does public speaking on professional issues in educational institutions and all the Professional Institutes such as Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh, ACCA, and ICMA Bangladesh. He is also a lecturer at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh for the past 44 years.

Mr. Masud completed his Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from St Xaviers’ College under the University of Kolkata. Thereafter, he qualified with distinction both as a Chartered as well as a Cost and Management Accountant from the Indian Institutes being a silver medalist at all India level in the Chartered Accountancy Examination in the year 1977. He is also a Fellow member of CMA (Australia and NZ).