B Ahmed Hajee Mohiudeen

Dr. B Ahmed Hajee Mohiudeen is the Founder Chairman of B A Group, headquartered at Thumbay, Mangalore, Karnataka state, India.

Mohiudeen was born in 1933 to B. Mohiudeen Hajee and Mariamma in a business family in Mangalore, Karnataka, India. His father was a prominent name in the timber business. Mohiudeen graduated in Commerce in 1954 and began his career soon after, as a small-scale industrialist in a nondescript village called Thumbay in South Karnataka. He founded the B A Group, in 1957.

Mohiudeen is the Chairman of the B A Group, which he had founded in 1957. Today, B A Group has a standing of over five decades in the wood industry and is a well-diversified conglomerate. From a fledgling company in the 1960s, B A Group is now on the threshold of rapid expansion into such areas as urban housing, education, real estate, healthcare and exports & imports.

B A Industrial Training and Technical Centre is sponsored and managed by Mohiudeen Educational Trust, of which Mohiudeen is the Chairman. The Trust also runs a Kannada and English Medium School, a Pre-University College a Nursery School, a Medium Primary School and Darul Uloom Mohiudeen Arabic College. There are more than 1500 students in these institutions.

Mohiudeen is the founder president of a number of institutions and trusts in Mangalore and surrounding areas. He is the president of the 80-year-old Badriya Educational Institutions at Mangalore. He is also the president of Nav Bharat Night High School, which was established before India’s independence. He is one of the Trustees of Islamic Academy of Education, under Yenepoya Group, India.

He is a former member of the Adult Education Society, Government of Karnataka. He is also an ex syndicate member of Mangalore University.

Ahmed Hajee Mohiudeen is married to Bee Fathima Ahmed Hajee, and they have three sons Thumbay Moideen (Founder President of Thumbay Group, headquartered at Ajman, UAE), B Abdul Salam (Managing Director & CEO – BA Group) and B M Ashraf (Managing Director - Mohiudeen Wood Works LLC, Ajman, UAE), and a daughter Mariam Shabana Faizal.

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