Mr. Atul Sobti, 54, has assumed charge as Director (Power) of the Maharatna Public Sector engineering and manufacturing enterprise.
Prior to this, he was Executive Director (Power) at BHEL, New Delhi and was also holding concurrent charge of Industrial Systems Group (ISG), a Bangalore based unit of BHEL.
Mr. Sobti is a ‘Mechanical Graduate Engineer’ with ‘Post Graduation in International Management’ and ‘Diploma in Project Management’. He was awarded the Gold Medal at IMI, while pursuing ‘Post Graduation in International Management’. He has also undergone Advance Management Training Programmes at IIM, Ahmedabad and Asian Institute of Management, Manila.
Mr. Sobti has a repertoire of diverse and versatile professional experience of 33 years, working in various capacities in all major segments of BHEL including International Operations; a major manufacturing plant of BHEL at Hyderabad; Corporate Planning & Development; New Capital Projects and Project Engineering and Systems Integration Divisions at BHEL Hyderabad and Bangalore. The experience encompasses a wide spectrum of strategic as well as operational disciplines including Marketing & Business Development, Project Management, Operations Management, Strategic Management, Capital Investments, and Project Engineering & Systems Development.
During his tenure at BHEL’s International Operations Division, Mr. Sobti was a key contributor to a fifteen fold increase in its overseas business through securing and executing prestigious power projects and product orders from many countries including Oman, UAE, Iraq, Libya, China, Kazakhstan, Suriname, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Kuwait, Ukraine, etc.
During his tenures at BHEL’s units at Bangalore and Hyderabad, the units achieved record financial and physical performance. He was also instrumental in steering the future growth plans and new business initiatives in these divisions.
As a member of New Capital Projects Group, in the eighties, Mr. Atul Sobti was actively associated in setting up of new BHEL plants at Rudrapur, Varanasi, PCRI-Haridwar, Jagdishpur, Goindwal etc. During his tenure in Corporate P&D, he worked in various areas including Strategic Planning, Capital Investments, MoU, Operations Monitoring, Technology Licensing etc. He was involved in drawing Corporate Plans of BHEL as well as creating Vision, Mission and Values for the company.
Mr. Sobti has been an active member of ‘CII National Committee of young Managers’, National level ‘CII Trade committee’ and Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC). He is also a regular faculty member at a number of reputed Management Institutes as well as BHEL’s Human Resource Development Institute.
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