Icons of Influence Shyam Bhatia Chairman, Alam Steel Group Shyam Bhatia arrived in Dubai by ship in 1965, bringing with him an entrepreneurial spirit and a lifelong passion for cricket. Since its foundation in 1979, Bhatia’s Alam Steel Group has grown from a small building materials firm into a multimillion-dollar company that serves the growing UAE construction industry. The group constructed a production facility in Dubai in 2022 to fabricate steel plates, channels, and angles for the oil and gas industry. Last year, Alam built another facility in Abu Dhabi to reinforce steel bars (rebar). Alam Steel’s rebar factory at Dubai Investments Park in Jebel Ali has a production capacity of 300,000 tonnes per annum. The company has five subsidiaries, including Alam Steel, Alam Steel Trading (Abu Dhabi), Alam Steel Industries and Alam Steel International. The cricket connoisseur was awarded the ‘Sports Imprint Award’ in March for his contributions to the sports industry, notably his establishment of the world’s largest cricket museum in Dubai. Related Stories Revealed: Influential Indians in the GCC: Business legends You might also like Sunil John Dr. Thumbay Moideen Vidya Chhabria Mohan Valrani K. Rajaram Dr. Adnan Chilwan Sanjiv Kakkar Ram Kumar Thota Raghu Malhotra Sunil Kaushal Atif Rahman Amit Jain Rishi Kapoor Vasu Shroff Anil Pillai Bal Krishen Rohit and Sharad Bachani Raju Ramesh and Sunil Paul Ayesha Depala John Paul Joy Alukkas Geet Bhalla and Digvijay Pratap Snehal and Sunita Hadani Nisha Jagtiani Kunal Kapoor Dino Varkey Ashish Panjabi Joy Alukkas Yogesh Mehta Yusuff Ali M.A. Ravi Pillai Micky Jagtiani Sunny Varkey Sunil Vaswani Shamsheer Vayalil Firoz Merchant Rajen Kilachand Azad Moopen Tony Jashanmal Paras Shahdadpuri Dr. Zulekha Daud Adeeb Ahamed Dhananjay Datar Rizwan Sajan PNC Menon Sima Ved Shaji Ul Mulk Ramesh Prabhakar L.T. Pagarani Ram Buxani Surender Kandhari Sohan Roy Shyam Bhatia