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Arshad Chaudhry - Chairman Arshad Chaudhry is the Chairman and founder of ABDN. A dynamic professional with a passion for ICT, he is a director and senior consultant to the HCA Group of accountancy practices. He developed the HCA Group from humble beginnings 30 years ago to a substantial regional practice. He is director of HCA Arshad Chaudhry Ltd Chartered Accountants and director of Financial Management Partnership, a financial consutancy business.
He is Chairman of Spirit Resource an ICT company based in Leeds with its back office in the subcontinent. He was Group Internal Auditor for the Burton Group (now called Arcadia Plc).
He is a director of the Partnership Investment Fund and has been on the boards of several institutions in the Region, including the Leeds Chamber, Leeds College of Technology, the Training and Enterprise Council. Arshad helped setup CHEL, a flagship inner city regeneration company and was its Chair for a number of years. He is keen to develop international trading links and has recently led UKTI sponsored trade missions to India and Pakistan.
Fanatical about cricket he lives with his wife and three children in Alwoodley Leeds. |  | | | Arshad Chaudhry, President | | | Gurdev Singh Dahele MBE – Vice Chairman Gurdev has been involved with enterprise and regeneration work since 1986 when he was the Deputy Task Force Leader at Government’s Chapeltown and Harehills Task Force where he had successfully completed in the development of CHEL (Chapeltown & Harehills Enterprise Centre), a managed work space. He was posted to Bradford Task Force in 1989 and with his experience and knowledge of community and enterprise development work, he set up ABL, a community trust for the people of Manningham. He was the Chief Executive of ABL where he led in the development of Carlisle Business Centre. He is a Special Advisor to the Board of Development Trusts Association (DTA), London – an umbrella organisation of development trusts in the country. DTA is a practitioner-based movement with well over 500 organisations its members. DTA’s key objective is to support establishment of new development trusts and help existing development trusts to grow and operate well. He was recently appointed a Director on the Board of REEMAP. The mission of REEMAP is to eliminate educational underachievement of the black and minority ethnic young people living in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Bradford Common Purpose. He was awarded an MBE in 1996 for his services to the Department of Employment and services to regeneration. | 
Gurdev S Dahele MBE, Chairman | | | Richard Bowers Richard Bowers joined Midland Bank, which subsequently became HSBC Bank, from university in 1979. Following a traditional branch banking career path, which included management of two branches, and stints at head office,he began to specialise in commercial banking in 1990.
In 1998, Richard moved to Bradford to launch the South Asian Business initiative in the North East. He then led the unit for a six-year period, building it to become the bank’s most successful Asian unit in the UK. After a period heading business development of the Bank’s Islamic Finance initiative, he left banking in 2005 to join with Arshad Chaudhry in forming FMP. | 
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| | | Mark Goldstone Invited to join the board as the representative for Leeds Chamber of Commerce & Industry where he holds the post of Membership Manager, Mark has extensive sales and marketing experience gained across a number of sectors. Prior to working with Leeds Chamber, Mark was an advisor for Business Link West Yorkshire assisting companies within inner City Leeds to reach their full potential and ensuring they receive maximum benefit from the support services available within the City.
From personal experience Mark has particular understanding of the barriers to growth faced by businesses, especially start ups and is able to offer practical advice and guidance.
A masters graduate of Birmingham University, Mark is a former professional rugby player and currently lives in North Leeds. | 
Mark Goldstone | | | Lorraine Ellison MBE Lorraine has a wealth of international experience having travelled to and worked in over 70 countries around the world. Currently running her own international marketing business, Lorraine Ellison Limited, she works for a number of top international brands and clients. In Yorkshire & Humber she also works with UK Trade & Investment, managing their International Business Network and is also engaged as their Regional Sector Specialist for Textiles, Fashion & Design. Since the early 1980’s when she worked in procurement on a range of British Aid funded projects mainly in Africa and Asia, she has built a strong portfolio of international business contacts. From 1993 when she was appointed International Marketing Director with one of the UK’s largest Chambers of Commerce, she organised and led over 120 trade missions to developed and developing markets across the world. She has also worked with the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Chitral in the North West Frontier Province helping local women to market their organic textiles into Western Europe and the US. Lorraine is an Adviser to F1 in Schools, a Not for Profit Organisation, encouraging thousands of young people to develop a range of interactive skills using the F1 brand and international competition to forge links across the world. Lorraine was awarded the MBE for services to exports in the Queens Birthday Honours List in 2004. | 
Lorraine Ellison MBE
| | | Rajan Bhabra Rajan Bhabra is a Business Development Manager for Bank of Scotland (HBOS) - Business Banking Division and is responsible for the Leeds area. Rajan’s career background is from the Financial Services Sector and Global Outsourcing. Rajan’s career began at Ventura Customer Management (a Next PLC Co), where he was the Credit Analyst for both Retail and Telecoms Finance and was responsible for managing the Credit Policy and Recoveries Performance. Rajan was also the Credit Risk Manager for First National Tricity Finance (a Lombard Group Co) within retail lending based in Enfield. He also held a role as a Financial Auditor for First National’s Motor Finance Division in Surrey, responsible for auditing the M G Rover Group Dealerships. Rajan has also worked for Yorkshire Water PLC’s group Co. Loop Customer Management Ltd where he was brought in to head and set up a Risk Management Division to help devise credit policies and improve recoveries for the Utilities sector.
Rajan later joined Ajuba International Ltd (Indias top 5 Outsourcing Co) as their Business Development Director with a remit for helping UK companies achieve healthier profitability’s. Rajan is also the Business Development Director for Infolink Ltd, a Leeds based Management Consultancy Co. Rajan is also a Director for Harvey’s Estates Ltd based in Leeds, specialising in marketing new property developments. He is also the Proprietor of Pistachio Foods based in Chapel Allerton, Leeds. In addition, Rajan has also held roles at First Direct Bank and LloydsTSB Bank. | 
Rajan Bhabra | | | Sharon Jandu Sharon Jandu is the managing director of Global PR & Marketing Ltd, a Bradford based company, with a satellite office in London and Hangzhou- China. | 
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Faruk Miah – Director
Faruk is currently a Prgramme Manger at Park Lane College Leeds. He is the Head of PLCL Brudenell Centre in Headingley, Leeds. He is also part of the College’s growing International Unit with responsibiity for the South Asia region which covers India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Faruk has been on some very successful trips in the region as part of the British Council - Education UK Exhibitions, UKTI Trade Missions as well as the general recruit visits. He is currently working on some very exciting projects on developing local partnerships to deliver UK qualifications locally.
Faruk is on the Board of Assist an International Student Recruitment Consultants with in-house services for international money transfer, travel, accommodation and legal services. He is currently the Chairman of the Bangladeshi Community Education & Training Centre & Al-Madina Masjid & Madrasha serving the local Bangladeshi Community in South Leeds.
Faruk has served as a Governor at Hunslet Moor Primary School for the past 5 years and is the current Chair of Personnel. In 2006 Faruk was the winner of the prestigious Channel S “Community Award” for “outstanding contribution to the British Bangladeshi community”. The only young person from the Yorkshire & Humber region to have ever gained the award.
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