Mohammad Athar — CEO
Business Leader with over 18 years of experience in infrastructure and industrial sectors. Mohammad is part of PwC’s one consulting leadership team. He leads the Capital Projects and Infrastructure competency for the firm. He is responsible for consulting business across roads, ports, airports, public transport, logistics and industrial infrastructure right from strategy to execution. He has been involved in various buy and sell side mandates of infrastructure assets. He has been significantly involved in Public Transport projects across Metro and Bus transport including Electric Mobility. He has led conceptualisation and delivery of 5 national industrial corridors. He has been significantly involved in the decarbonization of transport agenda for various ministries including Roads & Transport and Heavy Industry. Before joining, PwC, Mohammad worked for 2 years in Siemens in their Mobility division. He has published policy briefs along with ADB. At PwC, Mohammad has set up Industrial Development and Investment Promotion (IDIP) platform that enables growth and entry strategy for manufacturing and services sector firms in India and has been involved in successful multi-billion-dollar investments of several MNCs and global fortune 500 companies in India. Led large scale industrial and infrastructure transformation projects in Middle East ( Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Oman), South Asia including Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and Africas. Mohammad received the prestigious ET 40 under 40 Award in 2022, which identifies India’s top CEOs of the future. He is also a distinguished young alumnus of IIT Kharagpur. He has been running several thought leadership panels during World Economic Forum at Davos for the last 8 years. Key areas of expertise include - Infrastructure strategy, digital transformation, Industrial policies, incentives design, investment promotion, economic planning and infrastructure planning Development, planning and implementation of SEZs and industrial cities Entry strategy for new investors and incentives negotiations Infrastructure financing, project structuring, PPP projects and business due diligence. Specialties: Entry strategy, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Business plans, Financial Modeling, Market assessment, incentives design and industrial policies Organization restructuring, PPP project structure, Project finance
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Infrastructure and Industrial Consulting with a focus on strategic development.
Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Experience: 18 yrs 6 mos
Skills
- Infrastructure Strategy
- Project Management
- Infrastructure Financing
- Investment Promotion
- Entry Strategy
- Policy Formulation
- Infrastructure Planning
- Business Development
Career Highlights
- Led multi-billion-dollar investments for global firms in India.
- Recognized as ET 40 under 40 Award winner in 2022.
- Established IDIP platform for industrial development in India.
Work Experience
PwC
Partner and Leader, Capital Projects and Infrastructure (7 yrs 8 mos)
Director (8 yrs 10 mos)
Siemens
Executive Marketing (1 yr 11 mos)
Education
Executive Education Certificate at Harvard Kennedy School
Doctor of Philosophy - FPM Industry (Pursuing) at Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Executive Education at INSEAD
MDP - PPP in Infrastructure Projects at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
MBA at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
B Tech at Aligarh Muslim University
other at Harvard Business School Online
