Gautam Thapar

A third generation child, Gautam belongs to the old business family of The Thapar Group, founded by his grandfather Karam Chand Thapar.

He studied at Doon School, and completed his higher education in the field of Chemical Engineering in the US, at the Pratt Institute.He started his journey, by assisting in a manufacturing unit of the Avantha Group.Slowly, he got around the working mechanisms of the group, and set out to put everything in order.

He first grabbed attention,by turning around the Group's ailing company, Andhra, and went forward with nurturing the group company BILT's new export-oriented business, dealing in leather, shoes and foods.

Avantha Group, is worth US $ 4 billion, and stands out amongst the country's largest business conglomerates.Today, the group holds Crompton Greaves, Ballarpur Industries Limited (BILT), Tiger Bay restaurant, Global Green, Solaris Chemtech.

It is engaged in profitable businesses including power generation and distribution, power transmission and distribution equipment and services, farming, forestry, food processing, chemicals, infrastructure, paper and pulp and BPO.It employs 20,000 people in fifteen countries worldwide.