Muhammad Farid Khan
Director
Mr. Muhammad Farid Khan was born in July 1960 and after completion of his education, he started his business career in 1980, working side by side with his brother Mr. Muhammed Aziz Khan, Founder Chairman of Summit Group, in trading plastic compounds, fertilizer and other commodities. He played an integral role in establishing and developing Summit Industrial and Mercantile (Pvt.) Limited in 1985.
His key entrepreneurial skill and expertise focuses in the establishment and development of new and innovative projects. He was solely instrumental in setting up the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (“LPG”) project and storage tank terminal at Mongla under Khulna district. As Summit implemented the first Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Bangladesh, Mr. Khan took charge of Summit Power Limited as it’s Vice Chairman in 2007 and established it’s foundation.
In 2010, Mr. Khan shifted his focus into attaining Hi-Technology prospects that would digitalize Bangladesh and swift global connectivity. He took responsibility of Summit Communications Limited (SComm) as its Vice Chairman to strengthen Summit’s role as a catalyst for the introduction of new and pioneering businesses in Bangladesh. Under his dynamic leadership, SComm spearheaded into this market by establishing an innovative and state-of-theart optical fiber network architecture across the country covering all districts, upazilla and a decent portion of unions. Currently he serves as the Chairman of SComm which is the largest fiber optic operator in Bangladesh with over 57,000 KM of fiber optic network. In order to diversify the investments in the ICT infrastructure, he ventured to establish Bangladesh’s first-ever private submarine cable and currently SComm is actively working to implement submarine cable systems. In order to make SComm the first endto-end ICT infrastructure company in the country, he endeavored to start mobile tower business and built Summit Towers Limited (STL), where he is serving as the Chairman. Under his dynamic leadership, within a very short period of time, STL has successfully established portfolio of more than 4,500 telecommunications towers connecting all telecom operators of the country.
Besides his interest in promoting Hi-Technology business, Mr. Khan as Vice Chairman is directly involved with Summit Group in it’s entirety, strategizing and mapping out future prospects especially in areas of infrastructure development and economic potential.
