ACCA ACCOUNTANT EXCELS AS HEAD OF COMPANY CONNECTING BANGLADESH TO BROADBAND

ENDING UP an entrepreneur was perhaps Arif Al Islam’s “Plan B”, but the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)-qualified financial professional has more than proved his business smarts. “I had to build the company from a scratch,” says Mr Islam, who is now managing director and chief executive officer of Dhaka-based fibre optics major Summit Communications Ltd. To underline the progress that his company has made, Mr Islam presents a string of statistics. Summit Communications covers all of Bangladesh’s 64 districts with a fibre ...


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