Engr. Rezaul Karim is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from BUET, batch of 1970. Soon after his graduation, the country experienced political upheaval leading to 25th March, 1971 and the liberation war. After independence, Engr. Rezaul Karim embarked upon a business journey to manufacture a wide range of import substitute engineering products for BADC, BPDB, BWDB and other Govt. agencies, who were then busy reconstructing our war torn nation. Soon Engr. Rezaul Karim established a name for himself amongst all professionals, end users and peers. He moved from Tetulia to Teknaf, tracking the whole country trying to understand the development needs of emerging Bangladesh. He then designed, developed and manufactured products after products to meet the needs of this emerging nation.

With this humble beginning, Engr. Rezaul Karim embarked onto yet another industrial venture which no one could even conceive in the late 80s - cement. He organized a group of entrepreneurs with engineering and successful business backgrounds, and spearheaded the inception of the cement industry in 1992. Hence, Confidence Cement Ltd. became the pathfinder of all cement industries in Bangladesh. Today Confidence Cement Ltd. has gone onto establishing its third unit with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million tons. Soon after this was achieved, his leadership and vision motivated Confidence Group to organize a team to set up yet another new cement industry around Dhaka with a target production capacity of 1.5 million tons.

From 1972 till date, Engr. Rezaul Karim has relentlessly created new industrial ventures one after another. He pioneered import substitute industries and manufactured engineering products and service products to name a few. He established the largest Steel Fabrication Industry with the biggest Galvanization Facility in Bangladesh, producing all types of galvanized steel power distribution poles. He also established the largest manufacturing facility of electrical power transmission towers & telecom towers, Pre-oppressed Concrete Poles for power distribution, all types of electrical power distribution accessories, all types of electrical power transformers, all types of screws and fasteners, Steel Bridges, Prefabricated Steel Building, handling turnkey Infrastructure Projects, River Dredging Operations with own imported high-tech dredgers from Denmark, IGX Telecom Gateway Operations, industrial and Marine paints under joint venture with Asian Paints (Bangladesh) Ltd., and the list shall continue to grow. Confidence Group has further added laurels to its hat by implementing 4 major turn-key power generation projects on BOO basis, totalling 400 MW, located in Chottogram, Bogura and Rangpur. Upon its full implementation, Confidence Group shall join the prestigious league of businesses with annual turnover exceeding 500 million!

A visionary entrepreneur at core, Mr. Imran Karim completed his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and his Bachelor of Arts in Economics in 2003 from the University of Rochester. In 2003, he was involved with "Who's Who of United States" that comprises of the top 0.5% of all university students in USA. Subsequently, Mr. Imran Karim joined Confidence Group in 2003 as the Director of Confidence Cement Ltd. However, his first endeavor was not particularly successful. Nevertheless, he did not yield in the face of an early failure, rather enjoying and valuing it for the lessons; eventually taking over the business development of Confidence Infrastructure
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In 2006, under his guidance, Confidence Infrastructure Ltd. started producing telecom towers and within the same year, became the market leader. Currently, Confidence Infrastructure Ltd. has almost 70% of the market share in both transmission towers and telecom towers in Bangladesh. After his first successful endeavor, he decided to expand into other sectors with Confidence Group, in alliance with Energypac, opened an 11 MW power plant in 2009, followed by a 108 MW power plant in 2015. Currently under Confidence Power Holdings Ltd. the Group owns and operates 400MW power plants and is developing another 1.1GW.

In 2012, Confidence Group entered the telecommunication market, under the name Digicon Telecommunication. Under his leadership, Digicon took a lead role in the formation of International Gateway Operators’ Forum (IOF) and made the sector profitable for all stakeholders. Later, Confidence Group also ventured into battery manufacturing, quickly becoming a market leader in the industry.

Mr. Imran is a visionary entrepreneur at his core and a passionate philanthropist. He is actively engaged in various social works, including autism awareness and support for the marginalized communities in society. His dedication lies in contributing to society in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals of the Bangladesh Government.

Mr. Imran was recognized as a commercially important person (CIP) by the Ministry of Industries for his contributions to the business sector as a large industrial manufacturing company in 2021. He also served as the former President of the Bangladesh Independent Power Producers' Association (BIPPA). In 2016, for his outstanding entrepreneurial accomplishment, he was chosen as one of the winners of the JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Bangladesh, an award given out by Junior Chamber International Bangladesh. He has been elected as the new President of St Joseph Old Boys' Foundation for the term of 2023-25.

Leadership, Respect, Cooperation, Integrity and Innovation; all these 5 values are the main driving force of Mr. Imran Karim, a visionary entrepreneur who would like to see Confidence Group among the top 3 most valued and revered socially and environmentally compliant conglomerates in Bangladesh.

Mr. Rupam Kishore Barua, one of the directors of Confidence Group, is an intrepid and industrious individual who has worked hard all his life to achieve excellence. He obtained his graduation degree from Chittagong College in 1968 and during his student life he was involved with various causes and organizations, making him a multifaceted human being. During his student life he was the vice president of Chattra League Chittagong City unit from 1969 to 1970 and was a frontline cultural activist and organizer of many socio cultural organizations. Later in his life, he became the municipal commissioner of Chittagong Municipality and was District Governor of Lions Clubs International, District 315-B4 of Bangladesh. Still now Mr. Barua is involved with many social service organizations.

Mr. Rupam Kishore Barua is a man with immense patriotism. Due to his patriotic zeal, imbued with the spirit of liberation struggle, he participated in the liberation war for the freedom of our nation. After liberation, in 1972, Mr. Barua entered professional life and started his career with a shipping job in Atlas Shipping. Later in 1980 he joined Maritime Agencies Ltd. and became General Manager of that company. In 1985 he started Confidence Shipping lines and in 1992, along with other entrepreneurs, he established the first local cement manufacturing industry in the private sector of Bangladesh - Confidence Cement Limited. At present he is one of the Directors of Confidence Group.

Due to his vast contribution in social service, Mr. Rupam Kishore Barua has been awarded the United Nations Award in 2002 for Socio Cultural Activities, the honor of DHAMMADUTA by International Brotherhood Mission India and the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award from the Lion's Club.

As for his personal life, Mr. Rupam Kishore Barua was born in Chittagong, to a renowned Buddhist family, on 4th June 1948. His father, Late Phani Bhushan Barua BABL, was also an Ex. MLA of the then Pakistan and President of all Pakistan Buddhist Association.

Mr. Salman Karim is a brilliant pioneer who graduated with honors from the University of Texas in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He earned his degree with honors and was on the dean's list for six straight semesters.

Through business development and promotional initiatives, Mr. Salman Karim visited the factories of numerous firms throughout the world and gained a significant amount of experience. In 2008, he started his career with Confidence Group, where he was in charge of carrying out the organization's initial power plant initiative in Habiganj.

Later, Mr. Salman Karim was chosen to serve as the group's manufacturing facilities' Technical Director. His main goal was to use locally accessible technologies to introduce structure and innovation. With the allocated responsibilities, he introduced localized "Kaizen," newer, unparalleled process engineering across all current manufacturing units. The Group's products are sold in export markets where significant revenue is generated, thanks to the culture of self-improvement.

He broadened the Confidence Group's horizons by establishing Confidence Electric Ltd., which has since grown to become one of Bangladesh's major Transformer manufacturers. In 2012, he and the organization entered the battery industry together, and Mr. Salman Karim assisted in building the business from scratch. Confidence Batteries Ltd., which markets industrial batteries under the brand names Gaston and many others, has become the industry leader via rigorous R&D and product innovation.

Dredging, infrastructure EPC, and telecom infrastructure are some of his most recent efforts. He is currently serving as the Director of Bangladesh Independent Power Producers' Association (BIPPA) and also an Executive Member of the Bangladesh Accumulated Battery Manufacturers Association (BABMA).

He has a never-ending thirst for technology. He takes great pride in his senior design project, where he and his team successfully designed and optimized a heat sink for computer video card of Advance Micro Device (AMD) series X1950.