Fokhrul Islam

CEO

Fokhrul Islam. CEO, is a leader who delivers outstanding results and inspires his team to achieve the very highest standards.

Self-confident, organised, highly driven, energetic and resourceful, he has achieved incremental growth with his business Global Procurement Group, developing its presence across three continents, providing focused, entrepreneurial and innovative leadership. GPG employs 550 people across the globe with growth projected for 750 and 1,250 respectively over the next two years. GPG achieved compound annual growth over the last four years of 148%. Its revenues reached £29m for the year ended 2018; and are on track for a projected £44m for 2019 and £62m in 2020. This year, Fu (to his colleagues) is a finalist in several national entrepreneurial awards – the EY ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ and also the NatWest ‘Scale-Up Entrepreneur of the Year’.