Younas Chaudhary is the Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas and its affiliates.

After working for six years as a welder, taxi driver, car salesman, and other assorted roles, Younas responded to a newspaper advertisement in 1979 to broker oil and gas deals in Kansas on behalf of Canadian investors.  Younas flipped his broker fees from that work into purchasing producing wells, then flipped the revenue from those wells into purchasing, even more, producing wells, and on and on.  That was the genesis of what would become, starting in 1983, Atlas and its affiliates.  Today, Younas stands as one of Houston’s most successful businessmen and philanthropists.

Younas credits his success to a set of simple but powerful life principles: “Work hard.  Be consistent.  Stay positive.  And never give up.”  Younas expounds on these, and additional business principles, on his blog

Ijaz Rehman is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Atlas and its affiliates.  His principal responsibilities including overseeing the Audit, Accounting, Corporate Finance, and Treasury functions for the organization.

Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, Ijaz has been a Houston resident since 1990 and has held his present role for twenty-three years.

Ijaz holds an L.L.B. (Bachelor of Laws) degree from the University of Punjab as well as an M.B.A. from Texas Southern University.  He is married and has four children.

Yousuf Chaudhary is the Executive Vice President of Atlas and its affiliates. 

His principal responsibilities include overseeing the Engineering and Business Development functions for the organization.

Yousuf was born and raised in Houston and holds a B.B.A.in Business Administration from Houston Baptist University. 

Yousuf is married and has a young son.