MUMBAI: From oil when he started his career to heading a company making technologically advanced fabrics as its president & CEO is the transition that Gupreet Singh Bhatia has made.

The BE in mechanical engineering joined Shell Lubricants just as 2000 was approaching as regional sales manager -eastern region. Over 11 years he rose to becoming the global marketing – OEM & dealer marketing manager Asia Pacific when he decided to shift  to Castrol as its vice-president B2B, a position he held for nearly four years.

Good fortune knocked on his doors and he was called to become the managing director &CEO of Livguard  Energy Technology where he stayed for nine years when he received a call to join Arvind Advanced Materials based in Ahmedabad as its president & CEO – an assignment he took up earlier in December 2024.

Arvind Advanced Materials has several verticals. Among them figure: human protection for eg: (flame retardant wear and high visibility industrial wear), advanced composites (glass fabrics for wind energy), filtration (fabric for wet filtration and hot gas filtration), technical yarns (speciality threads for protective garments), reinforcement fabrics (fabrics for diaphragms, bellows and automotive hoses, for eg) and coated products (for eg, textile print media and for interior décor).

Bhatia is known for his dynamism and leaning toward diversity and inclusive outlook is looking forward to a journey of transformation and growth at Arvind Advanced Materials.