Zaved Akhtar, new chairman of Unilever BD

Business Desk :
Zaved Akhtar has been unanimously elected as the chairman of the board of directors of Unilever Bangladesh Ltd, the country’s leading fast moving consumer goods company, with effect from August 28 this year.

The decision came from the company’s 194th board meeting held on August 27.

The current CEO and managing director of the company, Akhtar will succeed Kedar Lele, who has served UBL as chairman since 2020.

Akhtar will continue to lead the Bangladesh business as managing director while assuming his new role as chairman of the six-decade-old company, Unilever said in a statement on Thursday.

He will also be a member of the Unilever South Asia Leadership Team.

On this occasion, Rohit Jawa, president of Unilever for South Asia and CEO and managing director of Hindustan Unilever Limited, said: “I would like to thank Zaved for his outstanding leadership of our Bangladesh business.