Chairman & CEO
Mr. Rahman has 25 years experience in the financial industry as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Wachovia and Vice President for Private Clients at Merrill Lynch. He is the founder of several business ventures and a few non-profit organizations. His ventures include Rubicon Global Asset Management, Rubicon Global Holdings, Rubicon Global Research, Always On Network, Maui-Rubicon Broadband and Z-Motors US.
Mr. Rahman received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Portland State University. He attends Reed College and is currently working towards his Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) at Reed. Mr. Rahman was an adjunct professor at the School of Marketing & Finance at Portland State University for eighteen years and has served as a Board Member for the Portland State Endowment Foundation.
He currently serves on the board of the Counsel of Spiritual and Ethical Education (CSEE). He also founded One Ummah Foundation in memory of his son, Mustafa Saeed Rahman. OUF is a non-profit organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of illiteracy and poverty in underdeveloped countries. Mr. Rahman previously served on the board of the Doughy Center for Grieving Children & Families.
Mr. Rahman has a very avid interest in demystifying halal investing and bringing it within the mainstream of the investing industry on a global scale. He was a member of the Reuters panel on Islamic finance in Singapore.
Mr. Rahman is married and has three children. He continues to travel extensively in Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. He is an avid reader and has a heart for working on humanitarian projects through One Ummah Foundation, which serves primarily in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Indian subcontinent.
