Rajeeb Samdani
Rajeeb Samdani | |
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| Born | March 28, 1974 Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Spouse | Nadia Samdani |
Rajeeb Samdani (born in 28 March 1974) is a Bangladeshi industrialist. He is currently the Managing Director of Golden Harvest Group [1][2] and the founder and trustee of Samdani Art Foundation.[3]
Career
He started his career as a commodity broker with Stemcor. Over the years, his company, Golden Harvest expanded its business into Information Technology, Commodities, logistics, food processing, agriculture, aviation, banking and real estate. [4][5].
Golden Harvest has expanded business into Logistics Industry with its Japanese partner Nippon Express [6], the largest logistic company in Asia and the 7th largest logistic company in the world. [7][8][9]
Philanthropy
He is the secretary general of the Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation, founder of the Alvina Samdani Trust & Taher Ahmed Choudhury Charitable Hospital. The Samdanis have organized ‘Dhaka Art Summit’[10][11][12], the first ever art fair in Bangladesh [13] [14][15][16][17][18][19]
Personal life
He is married to Nadia Samdani. Nadia Samdani is the CEO of Samdani Art Foundation, a non – profit Art infrastructure development organization [20]. The foundation is involved in promoting Bangladeshi arts to the international arena. The collector couple is well known for their local and international art collection, as well as their Bengal school and Tagore collection. [21]
References
- ^ New Year's resolutions. The Daily Star January 1, 2012
- ^ Golden Harvest takes up $33m expansion plan The News Today 15 November 2010.
- ^ Master strokes Dhaka Art Summit in April The Daily Star February 7, 2012
- ^ New Year’s Resolution
- ^ Daily Star
- ^ Nippon Express
- ^ Nippon Express:
- ^ Nippon Express Bangladesh (Financial Express)
- ^ Nippon Express Bangladesh (News Today)
- ^ Dhaka to Host Bangladesh’s First Art Summit (Boulin Art Info)
- ^ Bangladesh Strives to be the New ‘India’ of Art (Wall street Journal India)
- ^ Taka Art Summit (The Times of India)
- ^ Dhaka to host its first Annual Art Summit (Sunday Guardian)
- ^ Bangladesh’s first art summit (and a hope to be the new India) (Flash Art Online)
- ^ Art Going Global (The Star)
- ^ Dhaka Art Summit Kicks off (Daily Star)
- ^ Early Strokes (The Indian Express)
- ^ Financial times
- ^ The Hindustan Times
- ^ Financial Times UK
- ^ Collectors Corner