Ahmed Akbar Sobhan (আহমেদ আকবর সোবহান; born 15 February 1952) is a Bangladeshi

business magnate A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who is a powerful entrepreneur and investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or industry whose goods or ser ...

. He is the founder of

Bashundhara Group Bashundhara Group LTD () is a Bangladeshi conglomerate based in Dhaka. It was incorporated in 1987 as a real estate company under the name East West Property Development Ltd (EWPD). It presently owns more than 50 major concerns throughout Bangl ...

, which operates in the real estate, cement manufacturing, paper, and media sectors.

Career

In 1987, Sobhan started the East West Property Development (Pvt) Ltd., now known as Bashundhara Housing and is part of

. He also owns a number of media organizations through

East West Media Group East West Media Group PLC is a media conglomerate located in Bashundhara Residential Area, Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is a subsidiary of Bashundhara Group. Mostafa Kamal Mohiuddin is the chairman of the Media Group. Novelist and former editor of Kale ...

. Sobhan is the president of the Bangladesh Land Developers Association. He had served a term as the president of Bangladesh Cement Manufacturers Association.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sobhan, Ahmed Akbar 1952 births Living people Bangladeshi chairpersons of corporations People convicted of tax crimes 20th-century Bengalis People from Brahmanbaria district 21st-century Bengalis