Mr. Amitabh Mathur appointed Director (IS and P), BHEL

New Delhi, September 1: On his appointment as Director on the Board of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Mr. Amitabh Mathur, 57, has assumed charge as Director (Industrial Systems & Products) of the Maharatna Public Sector engineering and manufacturing enterprise, here today.

Prior to this, he was heading the company’s Power Sector Eastern Region (PSER), Kolkata as Executive Director. A Mechanical engineer from Delhi College of Engineering, MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi and an alumnus of Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, Mr. Mathur has more than 34 years of rich professional experience in having handled diverse functions in BHEL viz. Marketing, Business development, Corporate Affairs, Project Management & Execution in BHEL.

Mr. Mathur was elevated to the position of Executive Director in January 2014. Significantly, under his leadership, Eastern Region in BHEL created new benchmarks in project execution. During his stint at PSER, Mr. Mathur successfully handled more than 43 project sites under various stages of implementation across the country and abroad both in power as well as industrial segments.

Starting his career in BHEL as an Engineer Trainee in 1981, he acquired knowledge of all major products in the Utility as well as Captive segments. Earlier, as part of the Power Sector Marketing, Mr. Mathur had an impressive track record of business development in large size Coal, Hydel & Gas Power Plants on Turnkey/EPC basis.

His hands-on experience in market intelligence, identifying business opportunities, development of strategies and relationship building resulted in the company securing orders of around 16,000 MW from a broad base of customers comprising IPPs and central/state utilities in a highly competitive environment during his tenure in Marketing. He also spearheaded the committee to develop a standard proposal for 350 MW BTG and CCPP package comprising 9FA Gas Turbines with matching auxiliaries.