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Experienced Management Team
Mr. Rajneesh Narang, Director - Finance
• He is Director – Finance of the company effective March 22, 2022. He is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) and a Post Graduate in Financial Management.
He brings with him rich and varied professional exposure of more than 3 decades across various spectrum of Downstream Oil Company.
• He has headed the position of Marketing Finance which is considered as backbone of the company. He has also held various key challenging assignments in HPCL in the field of Corporate
Finance, Treasury, Risk Management, Margin Management, Marketing Finance, Budgeting, SBU Commercial, C&MD’s Office and Refinery Project. He is on Board of several HPCL
Subsidiary/Joint venture Companies.
Mr. S Bharathan, Director – Refineries
• He is Director- Refineries of the Company effective October 01, 2022. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director – Refineries Coordination of the Company with Additional Charge of R&D.
• He has wide exposure to the Refinery operations of the Company and has worked in Operations and Technical Departments of Mumbai and Visakh Refinery for over 25 years. He has also
worked in the Corporate Office on Margin Management & Refinery Project Process for over 4 years. Further, he is also leading HPCL’s Green R&D Centre in Bengaluru for the last 3 years.
Under him, HPCL Green Research & Development Centre (HPGRDC) has reached filing of about 380 patents.
Mr. Amit Garg , Director – Marketing
• He is Director- Marketing of the Company effective December 27, 2022. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director-Aviation in Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). He is a Post
Graduate in Electronics & Management.
• He is a senior leader in Oil & Gas space having rich and varied experience of over 35 years across the entire value chain in the Industry including sourcing, storage, logistics and sales across
various functions in BPCL. He also served as a full time Director with Indraprastha Gas Limited, the largest CGD in the country and as a Nominee Director with Maharashtra Natural Gas
Limited, a Joint Venture of BPCL & GAIL (India) Limited.
Mr. K S Shetty , Director – Human Resource
• He is Director- Human Resources of the Company effective May 01, 2023. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director – Human Resources with additional charge of Employee Relations
Department. He is a Gold Medalist in HR Management from Andhra University and also an alumnus of the Swedish Institute, Stockholm for Diploma in Sustainable Development in 2012.
He has completed his Advanced Management Program from MDI, Gurgaon / ESCP Europe Business School, Paris. (2016). He is an SHRM, USA - Senior Certified Professional and is
currently on the AIMA Core Committee on HR and also on the National Council of the Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD). He is also on the Board of HPLNG. He has over
25 years of experience in HR in various capacities at HPCL.
Mr. Vikas Kaushal, Chairman & Managing Director
• He has taken charge as the Chairman & Managing Director (C&MD) of the company effective March 17, 2025. He is a seasoned global leader with over three decades of experience in
Energy domain. He is a chemical engineering graduate from DCET, Punjab University and has done his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
• He has deep expertise in the Energy domain, including oil and gas, power, renewables and new energies. He has advised all the leading state-owned oil and gas companies in India i.e
Indian Oil, BPCL, GAIL, etc. on multiple large scale transformation programs for a long period of time. He is an expert on the Energy Transition topics. He has authored several key thought
pieces on oil & gas, power, chemicals, and related topics and is a regular speaker at key conferences in India, and globally.