Arif Al Islam

Arif Islam is MD and CEO of Summit Communications Ltd, a company that has the widest integrated telecommunication and IT infrastructure (fibre network, tower, internet gateway) footprints in Bangladesh.

He co-founded the company in partnership with a large conglomerate Summit Group over twelve years ago. Before this entrepreneurial initiative, he was Deputy CEO and CFO of the market leader mobile operator GrameenPhone, a subsidiary of Telenor. Over a decade-long career in GrameenPhone, he played an instrumental role in growth, technology adaptation and strategy formulation, leading the company from a start-up to be the largest corporate house in Bangladesh.

He had over six years public practice experience in UK and later worked as senior manager in KPMG Bangladesh.

He has been playing an ACCA brand ambassadorship role to the community since qualifying in 1999. He was the founding chair of Members Advisory Committee in 2017 and continues to contribute to the development of ACCA community in Bangladesh.