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][4]
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. [5].
Golden Harvest has expanded business into Logistics Industry with its Japanese partner Nippon Express, the largest logistic company in Asia and the 7th largest logistic company in the world. [6][7][8]
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 the Dhaka Art Summit[9][10][11], the first ever art fair in Bangladesh [12] [13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
Personal life
He is married to Nadia Samdani. The collector couple is well known for their local and international art collection, as well as their Bengal school and Tagore collection.[20][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
- ^ Dhaka Art Summit - a beginning! The Wall, May 06 2012
- ^ Daily Star
- ^ Nippon Express: April 19, 2012
- ^ Nippon Express Bangladesh Financial Express April 19, 2012
- ^ Nippon Express Bangladesh News Today April 19, 2012
- ^ Dhaka to Host Bangladesh’s First Art Summit Boulin Art Info March 22, 2012
- ^ Bangladesh Strives to be the New ‘India’ of Art Wall street Journal India April 10, 2012
- ^ Taka Art Summit The Times of India April 7, 2012
- ^ Dhaka to host its first Annual Art Summit Sunday Guardian April 08, 2012
- ^ Bangladesh’s first art summit (and a hope to be the new India) Flash Art Online Sunday Guardian April 11, 2012
- ^ Art Going Global The Star April 20, 2012
- ^ Dhaka Art Summit Kicks off Daily Star April 13, 2012
- ^ Early Strokes The Indian Express April 22, 2012
- ^ The Art Market: All new in Delhi Financial Times January 27, 2012
- ^ South Asia becomes new global art hub. Hindustan Times April 25, 2012
- ^ The Art Market: Spring in the air Financial Times UK, April 14 2012
- ^ Collector’s Corner Business Standard India March 03, 2012
- ^ A Lighter Shade of RedThe Indian Express January 31, 2012