Craig R. Barrett is an American business executive who served as the chairman of the board of Intel Corporation until May 2009. He became CEO of Intel in 1998, a position he held for seven years. After retiring from Intel, Barrett joined the faculty at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Phoenix.
Medtronic plc is an American-Irish medical device company. The company's operational and executive headquarters are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and its legal headquarters are in Ireland due to its acquisition of Irish-based Covidien in 2015. While it primarily operates in the United States, it operates in more than 150 countries and employs over 90,000 people. It develops and manufactures healthcare technologies and therapies. It is one of the biggest medical tech companies in the world and is currently the largest medical device company in the world by revenue.
St. Joseph Higher Secondary School, also known as SJC, is a Catholic higher secondary school in Asad Gate, Mohammadpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh, regarded as one of the best colleges in Bangladesh. In 2023, St. Joseph was one of seven colleges awarded the 'A+' grade. It is a school offering education from third to twelfth grade, with pupils averaging 8 to 18 years of age. The school is a single-shift (morning) school with over 2,000 students. In 1965, the college relocated to historical Asad Gate near Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban under the jurisdiction of the Mohammadpur Thana, and being named St. Joseph Higher Secondary School.
William W. George is an American businessman and academic. He is a professor of management practice, and a Henry B. Arthur Fellow of Ethics at Harvard Business School. He previously served as chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic.
Islamic University of Technology, commonly known as IUT, is an international engineering technological research university located in Gazipur. IUT offers undergraduate and graduate programs in engineering and technical education.
Patrick Paul Gelsinger is an American business executive and engineer, who has been the CEO of Intel since February 2021.
Anthony J. Adducci was a pioneer of the medical device industry in Minnesota. He is best known for co-founding Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc., the company that manufactured the world's first lithium battery-powered artificial pacemaker. The lithium-iodide cell revolutionized the medical industry and is now the standard cell for pacemakers.
Arthur D. Collins Jr. is an American executive, the retired chairman of the board of Medtronic, Inc., and formerly served the company as president and chief executive officer. He is now a senior advisor to Oak Hill Capital Partners and a managing partner at Acorn Advisors, LLC. Collins is also the author of the children's book series The Adventures of Archibald and Jockabeb.
Kendall J. Powell is an American businessman. He is the former chairman of General Mills from 2008 to 2017, and chief executive officer (CEO) from 2007 to 2017.
William "Bill" A. Hawkins was the chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic from 2008 until 2011.
Shridhir Sariputta Hansa "Hans" Wijayasuriya, a Sri Lanka born Global Telecommunications Executive, is the Group Executive Director and CEO Telecommunications Business of the Axiata Group Berha., Asia’s second-largest telecommunications company. Until 2016, he was also the Group Chief Executive of Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka’s largest mobile communications provider. During the period 2012-14, He was founder CEO of Axiata Digital Services, the pan-region Digital Services arm of the Axiata Group.
Rudy A. Mazzocchi was an American entrepreneur and author. Mazzocchi founded and exited several companies in the med-tech industry including MICROVENA, Vascular Science, Inc., CytoGenesis, Inc. and Image-Guided Neurologics. At his death in 2022, he was Executive Chairman of ONE Exchange AG, Chairman/CEO of AGENTIX Corp., Chairman/CEO of ASEP Medical and former Founding CEO of ELENZA, Executive Chairman of Establishment Labs (NASDAQ:ELSA), Founding Chairman of OptiStent, Inc. and Independent Director of several public and private companies. In 2012, Mazzocchi published the award-winning novel Equity of Evil, the first book of The EQUITY Series. He was the author of over 110 patents. He also served as churchwarden at Manhattan's Little Church Around the Corner.
British Bangladeshi Power & Inspiration 100 is an annual publication listing the 100 leading British Bangladeshi figures. It was established in 2012 and also holds an annual launch ceremony in London, England.
Latifur Rahman was a Bangladeshi business magnate and media mogul. He served as the founding chairman and CEO of Transcom Group which deals with beverages, electrical and electronics products, pharmaceuticals, fast food, snacks and breakfast cereals, print media, FM radio and tea plantations mostly as the comprador of international brands like Pizza Hut, KFC, Pepsi and Philips. He was the founding director of Mediaworld and Chairman of Mediastar, which owned The Daily Star and Prothom Alo newspapers, respectively. Both are the nation's leading English and Bangla newspapers.
Shimanto Bank PLC. is a schedule commercial bank in Bangladesh and related to the Border Guards Bangladesh. As the slogan goes "Shimanhin Astha", Shimanto Bank Limited aims to be the leading financial institution to serve with utmost trust. Rafiqul Islam is the chief executive officer and managing director of the bank. Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui, director general of Border Guards Bangladesh, is the chairman of the bank.
Young Sohn (Korean: 손영권) is a Korean-American business executive and investor. He was the president and chief strategy officer of Samsung Electronics. Sohn is also the chairman of the board of Harman International Industries, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics, and currently serves as Senior Advisor to Samsung.
Taqsem A. Khan is an engineer and a former managing director and CEO of Dhaka WASA, a government owned company responsible for water and sewage in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka from 2009 until 2024. He has been appointed five consecutive times in that same post since 2009 until his resignation on 14 August 2024, at the aftermath of the 2024 non-cooperation movement.
Abdul Hai Sarker is a Bangladeshi businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of Purbani Group, one of the largest and oldest established textile conglomerates in Bangladesh, and former president of Bangladesh Textile Mills Association. He is the founding chairman of Dhaka Bank Limited. He is a chairman of the trustee board of Independent University, Bangladesh. He is a member of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Association of Banks.
