Dr Nur Rahman
Executive Director:
Dr Nur Rahman’s brief profile:
Former Chief Executive Officer
Ghanim International Corporation, Brunei (100% Brunei Government owned company)
Trading as : bruneihalalfoods’ brand
Education:
Masters of Business and Technology (MBT)– University of New South Wales , Australia
Masters of Applied Science (M App Sc) in Food Microbiology – University of New South Wales Australia
Masters of Veterinary Science (MVSc) – Bangladesh Agricultural University
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) – Bangladesh Agricultural University
Experience:
- CEO – Ghanim International Corporation, Brunei
- CEO- Ghanim International UK limited
- CEO- Brunei Halal Foods ME DMCC(UAE)-2017 to 2020
- Member – Industry Advisory Committee for Food Science and Technology (IAC-FST), University Technology Brunei (UTB)
- Board/Council member – University Islam Sultan Sharif Ali (UNISSA), Brunei
- Member- UNISSA Financial Management Committee
- Member- Board of Governors, Miftah An Nur Islamic school, Brunei
- Divisional Head of Quality: Woolworths Limited
- Global Technical and Commercial Manager: Gloria Jean’s Coffees International
- Operations Manager: Attiki Yoghurt
- Technical Manager: Cargill Foods
- Head of Quality: BE Campbell
- Quality Manager: Tamworth City Council
Dr Nur Rahman’s experience gathered over the last 30 years in Australia, UK, UAE and Brunei. where he has been able to transform businesses and promote brands creating opportunity to export products to international markets. While he was working as CEO of Ghanim International corporation, a 100% Brunei Government owned company, for the last 8 years he has been able to create a huge network internationally which can be used for exporting products manufactured in Australia. This will give the opportunity for small to medium size Australian manufacturers to export their products and grow business.
Dr Nur’s experience base include FMCG, retail and manufacturing in the areas of Senior Executive, Business transformation/Development, Quality Management, People Management, Operations Management, JV negotiation and execution along with dealing with varieties of stake holders.
During his tenure as CEO in Brunei, he was passionate about positioning Brunei in the global food industry and contributing to the Brunei food industry development. Upon joining Ghanim, he undertook an exercise to turn the company around towards profitability and growth including embarking on renewing the vision, mission and strategy. He initiated repositioning bruneihalalfoods as an iconic halal brand and establishing partnerships with MSMEs for the processing of products under the bruneihalalfoods brand for export markets and supplied products manufactured by MSMEs to several international markets. Ghanim also implemented a Brunei Government initiative of Entrepreneurship Development program by engaging local Bruneians into retail business through “The Junction” franchise retail outlets. Buy Local Produce Campaign (BLPC) is another business unit that has been established since the start of Covid 19 by purchasing fruits and vegetables from local Bruneian growers and selling to consumers. Through his leadership, Ghanim has established key export markets and exported Bruneian made products and is ambitiously setting its sights to be a global brand, capitalizing on the fast-growing halal market opportunity worth US 1.4 trillion through strategic partnerships in key markets including Asia, Middle East and Europe. A Brunei Food Industry Development (BFID) state-of-the-art multipurpose manufacturing facility has been built which is facilitating not only quality Bruneian made products to export markets, but to support local MSMEs to develop, process and pack their products in a state-of-the-art International standard facility. Ghanim International has evolved and grown into the most important player in the Development of Food Industry in Brunei during Dr Nur’s tenure as CEO.
Dr Nur has been able to establish close professional relationship with multiple Ministers, Secretaries, senior officers along with Government and private agencies. His relationship with many international partners in ASEAN, Middle Eastern, Asian and European countries has opened up opportunities for businesses and eventuated in financial returns.
Prior to joining Ghanim he was with Woolworths Australia, Gloria Jean’s Coffees, Cargill Foods, BE Campbell, and Attiki Yoghurt/Copperpot dips; among many others. He is an Australian citizen.