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Dilip George is the Group CEO of Foulath Holding and is responsible for managing the affairs of the companies comprising the Foulath Group, which includes Bahrain Steel, a pelletizer located in Bahrain and SULB, an integrated structural steel producer located in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Foulath Holding is an investment vehicle focused on investing in the steel industry in the GCC region.

Dilip joined Foulath in 2009 and has held various leadership positions in Foulath. In this period. Dilip has transformed the competitive position of the Foulath Group. He has played a key role in the continued development of strategic customer and supplier relationships, ensuring flexibility in response to an increasingly demanding market conditions. Dilip has been an integral part of the organic and inorganic growth of the Foulath group since 2009 and is charting out a path for industry leading growth for the future.

Prior to joining Foulath, Dilip was CFO of MANSO group of companies based in Saudi Arabia, responsible for strategy and corporate finance. MANSO is a diversified business group whose activities spanned petrochemicals, steel and decorative wood. At MANSO Dilip led the successful public listing of the Group’s petrochemical business, Methanol Chemicals Company (Chemanol) on the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul). Dilip also spent 5 years as a management consultant at Arthur Andersen in Saudi Arabia. His background in consulting includes business feasibility studies, organization redesign, business process reengineering and business acquisition.

Dilip is a Chartered Accountant (CA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and holds a B. Com honors degree from Delhi University, India.