Founders
Engineer Aminul Islam
Chairman, Metal.
Considered the lifeline of the Corporate, Engineer Aminul Islam was born on February 11, 1945 in Barisal, Bangladesh. He was born to late Alhaj Mubassairuddin and late Jamila Khatun of Barisal. He is married to Ms. Najma Islam and has three wonderful daughters.
He graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1965.
Soon after graduation Engineer Aminul Islam joined the government Department of Civil Engineering. The skill and ability of the young engineer outshone others and he was made the project-in-charge of the Chittagong Cement Clinker Grinding Factory in 1967. When the Factory went into production in 1974, he was appointed the General Manager of the Factory. Within two years he put in place everything about the smooth functioning of the Factory and he was transferred to take over as the Chief Engineer of the Bangladesh Mineral Exploration and Development Corporation.
The year 1978 was critically important in his whole career as he decided to leave the government job and join M/S Project Builders Ltd as one its Directors. Next year, he was made the Managing Director of the Company and since then he has never looked back.
The PBL has flourished under his direct guidance and supervision and has been recognized as a house of excellence both at home and abroad. He has created a number of sister concerns which are as follows:
Canopus Ltd, a garments factory, Life Line International, a special food (spirulina) producing company,
The Metal (Pvt) Ltd and other Metal companies for import and distribution of Tractors and other agri machineries, Hitech Professionals, a company for import of computers and developing softwares, and City Axis Ltd, a real estate developer. With his Midas touch Eng. Aminul Islam has made all these sister concerns highly profitable.
Engineer Aminul Islam has the distinction of being associated with some prestigious bodies/ societies/clubs. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, past President of IFAWPCA (International Federation of Asian and Western Pacific Contractors’ Association), past President of Bangladesh Association of Construction Industry(BACI), past President of Rotary Club of Dhaka North West, Member Dhaka Club, and Member Savar Golf Club, Dhaka.
With 50 years of professional experience, Engineer Aminul Islam is the name of an icon in the Bangladesh business world, adept at building mutually beneficial partnerships, maintaining friendly relations with stakeholders, vendors and service providers and skilled in creating strategic alliances with other business leaders to effectively align with and support key business initiatives.
Engineer Sadid Jamil
Managing Director, Metal.
An avid enthusiast in entrepreneurship, Engineer Sadid Jamil was born on May 1, 1957, in Dhaka. He grew up under the affectionate care of his parents Late Engineer Jamil Uddin Ahmed and Ms. Sabiha Ahamed and had an excellent schooling. He graduated from the Bangladesh Institute of Technology (BIT), Khulna in 1982. He is married to Ms. Urmi Sadid and has one daughter and a son.
Sadid Jamil, a vibrant young mechanical engineer, had a brief spell of service in the public sector and worked as Assistant Engineer in the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC).
1987 for Engineer Jamil was a year of great decision-making. He left the warmth of a secure job and moved to become an entrepreneur. He then founded a business of bodybuilding of automotive vehicles, The Metal. It was a company established that year for importing chassis and manufacturing bus and truck bodies. It turned out to be unprofitable and the business was aborted. The scenario of Bangladesh’s agriculture, the farmer walking behind the bullocks, the wooden plows over the shoulder, came to his mind; the age-old farming practices had no change. He beheld a vision to work in the mechanization of Bangladesh’s agriculture. He founded another company in 1993, The Metal (Pvt) Ltd, and became its Managing Director. The company then started importing tractors and other mechanized tools for agriculture, and the new business clicked.
Besides the Metal, he has managed other companies that he founded after 2000 CE in course of time. The core idea of his business was Agriculture, he made other businesses too, which are non-core to his group, Metal. They are –Metal Plus Ltd, Metal Agro Ltd, Metal seed Ltd, Metal Agrttech Ltd, Metal farm Teach Ltd. Metal Parts Ltd, Metal Motors Ltd, Jamil Engineers Ltd, Cox’s Bazar Surf Club Ltd, etc.
Engineer Sadid Jamil is a management enthusiast and has never missed an opportunity to update his skill. He attended management courses in Bangladesh,the USA,and Japan over the last two decades.
Engineer Sadid Jamil is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers, Bangladesh.
A significant aspect of his interests is his love for finearts which he pursues by avocation.Endowed with an aesthetic taste, he has a fairly large collection of artworks done by Bangladeshi artists, young and old. His collection comprises all forms of art – oil, watercolor, pencil sketches, acrylic, and pastel.He has a special liking for abstract painting, though figurative painting is not altogether absent. He is a frequent visitor of art exhibitions in Dhaka and spends quality time in the exhibitions halls.
Teaming up with Engineer Aminul Islam, Mr. Sadid Jamil has had a brilliant career in business administration and management in the companies he has been serving as the Managing Director. His skill in management and business development has gone a long way in providing the necessary power for the companies he has been serving since 1987.