S M Ashraful Alam is such a person who believes & determines the changes always. People believe that some meritorious forwarders lead the country, they bring the ultimate success through great efforts and creativity. A meritorious, hard working, creative and imaginary man, Mr. Alam, who is leading the foundation of the today’s fast-growing Electrical & Electronics (E&E) manufacturing sector in Bangladesh. His passion is to play with technology. Mr. Alam, one of the visionary founder Director of Walton Hi-Tech Industries Limited and its immediate past Managing Director, was born on 2nd July, 1965. He has completed graduation & post-graduation from the University of Rajshahi in 1986 & 1987 respectively and then joined in his family business of Electrical & Electronics (E&E) industry with a boundless dream to transform Bangladesh technologically and empower the people through introducing cutting-edge technology in the country. To make his dream come true through availing his long working experience gathered from the Electrical & Electronics (E&E) business, Mr. Alam has established, along with his brothers, the country’s first ever Refrigerator manufacturing plant in 2006. Since then he has been instrumental in achieving self-sufficiency in Refrigerator production with a strong emphasis on quality improvements to meet the international standards required for both domestic and global market to drive wider introduction of Bangladeshi Electrical & Electronics (E&E) products in the world. He has significant contribution in the advancement of manufacturing of Electrical & Electronics (E&E) products in the country, which was once solely import dependent. His business strategy and endeavor to expand into various vertical integrations have largely diversified the business of Electrical & Electronics (E&E) products resulting in Walton as one of the largest revenue generating organizations in Bangladesh. He has played a key role in popularizing the use of Refrigerators in Bangladesh through developing the Electrical & Electronics (E&E) products suitable for our climate and within the purchasing power of the mass people of our country. As a part of product diversification, Walton has started to manufacture Air Conditioner (AC) in 2011 by establishing self-testing facilities with well-equipped air enthalpy psychometric testing lab. Already, Walton has turned into the role model in establishing an advanced Hi-Tech products’ manufacturing industry with the state-of-the-art technologies in Bangladesh.

Mr. Alam dreams to make Walton a globally well established brand by 2024 and represent Bangladesh as a technologically competent country to the world. With this strive under his leadership, Walton has enlisted Bangladesh in the honorary list of Compressor manufacturers as the 15th in the world, 8th in Asia as well as 2nd in SAARC by establishing the first ever Compressor manufacturing plant in the country.