Business Report :
Parveen Mahmud FCA has recently been elected as the chairperson of Shasha Denims Ltd. The company’s Board of Directors elected her as the chairperson at a meeting held on November 14, says a press release.
She is also the newly elected Chairman of MIDAS, is also the Chairperson, Board of Governors, RDRS Bangladesh. She was the Founding Managing Director, Grameen Telecom Trust, and Deputy Managing Director of PKSF. In her varied professional career, Mahmud has been working with social innovations, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development at grass-root level. She was a practising chartered accountant.
Mahmud was the first woman President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) for the year 2011, and the first female board member of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA), apex accounting professional body of the SAARC and served ICAB Council for three years. She was the Founding Chairperson of CA Female Forum-Women in Leadership Committee, ICAB till 2019 and was the Vice Chairperson of the Women in Leadership Committee of SAFA from 2018-20.
Mahmud was the member, National Advisory Panel for SME Development of Bangladesh and founding board member of SME Foundation. She is the recipient of few accolades for social development and women empowerment: Chittagong Digest Women’s Day 2020 Award, Ananyanna Top Ten Women- 2018 Award in 2019; Joya Alokito Nari- 2018 Award from RTV, “Women at Work -2017” Award from Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and “Women of Inspiration Awards-2017” from the Bangladesh Organisation for Learning and Development (BOLD) and Rokeya Shining Personality Award 2006 from Narikantha Foundation.
