06·Leadership
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One thread runs through every Uttam company: powering humanity through clean energy, oxygen and healthcare. The record below is the professional record of the people who lead that mission.
The principals
The leader
Karan Bhatia
Chairman & CEO
Three decades at the front of industrial gases and high-pressure systems, and the pioneer who put India's first mobile hydrogen refueler and first hydrogen buses on the road.
Karan Bhatia has spent more than three decades building and running businesses across industrial gases, high-pressure systems and clean-energy logistics. His manufacturing record runs from medical oxygen cylinders and fire extinguishers to Type 3 carbon-composite cylinders engineered for CNG and hydrogen service, and he has delivered more than 800 virtual gas-pipeline systems worldwide.
He has been at the leading edge of hydrogen mobility in India: launching the country's first mobile hydrogen refueler, supplying the hydrogen fuel systems for 200 buses in Tata Motors' pilot programme, and delivering India's first 350-bar hydrogen virtual gas pipeline to Reliance Industries.
Twice elected President of the All India Industrial Gases Manufacturers Association (AIIGMA), he has also represented India on the ISO committee for gas, cylinders and valves. During the COVID-19 crisis he served on the Government of India's empowered committee on oxygen. Beyond the sector he is President of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) New Delhi and global membership chair on the EO global board.
As Chairman and CEO of the Uttam Group, he leads strategy across the group's clean-energy and healthcare businesses.
30+ yrs
building and running businesses in industrial gases, high-pressure systems and clean-energy logistics
2×
elected President of AIIGMA, All India Industrial Gases Manufacturers Association
1st
to launch India's mobile hydrogen refueler
350 bar
India's first hydrogen virtual gas pipeline, delivered to Reliance Industries
200
hydrogen bus fuel systems supplied for Tata Motors' pilot programme
800+
virtual gas-pipeline systems delivered worldwide
EO
President, Entrepreneurs' Organization New Delhi; global membership chair, EO global board
Govt.
member, Government of India empowered committee on oxygen during COVID-19
The leader
Aanchal Bhatia
Director · Founder, Breathe Easy India
A director of the Uttam Group and the driving force behind its healthcare mission, patient advocate, author and founder of the group's respiratory-health nonprofit.
Aanchal Bhatia is a director of the Uttam Group and co-founder of Uttam Cylinders, the group's flagship manufacturing entity. Alongside the business, she has built the group's healthcare and advocacy work.
She is the founder and Managing Trustee of Breathe Easy India, the group's nonprofit dedicated to lung-disease awareness, respiratory support, oxygen-cylinder donation and patient education.
A patient advocate by conviction, she is the author of “Your Doctor Is Not God, How to Be the CEO of Your Own Health” (2016), a guide to taking informed ownership of one's own care.
Co-founder
Uttam Cylinders (UCPL), incorporated 2008
Founder
Breathe Easy India, the group's respiratory-health nonprofit
Author
“Your Doctor Is Not God, How to Be the CEO of Your Own Health” (2016)
Advocate
Patient empowerment and lung-disease awareness
The leader
Aaryaman Bhatia
Chief Operating Officer
An entrepreneur and operator based in Bangkok, with a decade building and running businesses across India, the USA and ASEAN, now leading operations and commercial development across the Uttam Group's markets.
Aaryaman Bhatia is an entrepreneur and operator based in Bangkok, with a decade spent building and running businesses across India, the United States and ASEAN.
He works fluently in ASEAN commercial and investment circles, where he is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO YNG), and brings a practitioner's discipline to structuring, negotiating and closing transactions on the ground.
He also holds standing in the industrial-gases sector: in 2023 he opened AIIGMA's 42nd International Seminar in the Kingdom of Bahrain, sharing the stage with Bahrain's Minister of Industry and Commerce and India's Ambassador to Bahrain. As Chief Operating Officer of the Uttam Group, he leads operations and commercial development across the group's markets.
10 yrs
building and running businesses across India, the USA and ASEAN
YPO YNG
member, Young Presidents' Organization (YNG)
ASEAN
fluent in regional commercial and investment circles
2023
opened AIIGMA's 42nd International Seminar in the Kingdom of Bahrain
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