Farasath Ali

Farasath Ali and Toufique Rahman Chowdhury have been re-elected as the chairman and vice chairman of NRB Commercial Bank, the bank said in a statement yesterday.

Ali has earlier worked with Klynton Davis Ltd, a subsidiary of Weft Knitting in England, according to the statement.

He was the senior research and development technologist in United Sweater Mill Inc of Bayonne of New Jersey from 1997 to 1998 and president and CEO of SNA Knitting Mill Inc in USA from 1998 to 2005.

The NRB Commercial Bank started its operation under his leadership in 2013, according to the statement.

Chowdhury is the founder and chairman of the trustee board of Metropolitan University and president of Sylhet Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the bank said in the statement.

He was also a sponsor director and chairman of Mercantile Bank, the bank said.