GAIL Leadership

Shri Rakesh Kumar Jain is a Cost and Management Accountant by profession, Shri Jain joined GAIL in 1992 as a Management Trainee and has been part of growth trajectory of the company.

Prior to his appointment as Director (Finance), Shri Jain held the position of Executive Director (Finance & Accounts) in GAIL. Additionally, Shri Jain holds the position of Director in Indraprastha Gas Limited, GAIL Gas Limited, GAIL Global (USA) Inc. and GAIL Global (USA) LNG LLC. Earlier he was on the Board of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt. Ltd (RGPPL). As Executive Director (Finance & Accounts), he headed Corporate Finance and Treasury section in large mobilisation of funds from domestic and international markets and took investment decisions in large infrastructure projects. He was also actively involved in Investor relations and interactions with Analysts fraternity.

Shri Jain has worked in the areas of Corporate Finance and Treasury including Forex Risk Management, Capital Budgeting, Corporate Budgets, Corporate Accounts, Finalization of Long Term international LNG and Gas Agreements, Pricing, Liquefaction and Regasification Terminal Service Agreement, Mergers & Acquisitions, Taxation, Regulatory aspects etc.

Besides serving a long tenure at GAIL, he was on deputation to Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB), as Jt. Director (Commercial and Finance). During his stint at PNGRB, he was actively engaged in the review of tariff regulations, conceptualization of unified tariff, authorization of CGD 9th & 10th bidding rounds, finance functions etc. He has also worked in almost all business verticals of GAIL including GAIL’s largest Petrochemical plant at Pata.

Shri Deepak Gupta is a Mechanical Engineer, a DCE alumnus, with more than 31 years of rich and diverse experience in Oil and Gas Sector encompassing Project Management, Construction Management and Business Development functions. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the PMI, USA.

He has comprehensive and extensive experience in Project Management of Refinery, Petrochemical and Pipeline Projects from concept to commissioning and has led the execution of several successful Projects in India in all modes of Project implementation viz. EPC (LSTK), EPCM, OBE and PMC. He has successfully collaborated with multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams across geographies for implementing the highly complex and challenging Oil and Gas Projects.

In EIL, he has been on the forefront in leading the implementation of the multi-billion dollar 650 KBPSD Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Project in Nigeria, the largest single train grassroot Refinery in the world, which is also the largest Refinery Complex under implementation in the African continent. Besides this mammoth project, he has also led the implementation of the one of the largest Polymer facilities for HMEL at Bhatinda and the upcoming maiden Refinery Project in Mongolia. Besides the above, he has made significant contribution as part of team EIL that is credited with the successful implementation of the Petrochemical Expansion Project at Pata for GAIL and the PFCC Unit of MRPL Phase III Expansion Project at Mangalore.

As the convener of CHT Committee on Project Execution Best Practices he has made meaningful contribution in identifying key areas of improvement in project execution.

Mr Gupta has authored several papers and books sharing his experiences, feedbacks and ideas for fast track Project execution. Several key innovations and initiatives proposed by him are now a part of the best execution practices within the organisation. His special interests include project execution innovations, petrochemicals, strategy formulation, business growth initiatives, system improvement and digitalisation- for fast track project execution.

Mr Gupta has made presentations on strategies for mega project implementation and digitalisation at key forums, both in India and Overseas and has won wide appreciation for his thoughts and ideas.

Shri Ayush Gupta is an Electrical Engineer of the 1992 batch from IIT Roorkee and MBA in Operations Management. He has over 30 years of varied and rich experience in the fields of Training and Human Resource Development, Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, Performance Management, HRD Initiatives, Project Management and Operations & Maintenance. He is currently also on the Board of Directors of GAIL Gas Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of GAIL.

Shri Gupta is recipient of the prestigious Chevening Rolls Royce Science, Innovation, Policy and Leadership fellowship from Oxford University in 2013, Winner of the National Corrosion Awareness Award 2004 and Emerging HRD Thinkers Award in 2011. He is the co-editor of the book ‘Natural Gas Markets in India’ published by Springer International and has to his credit several best papers awards for papers published and presented at national and international forums.

He has successfully led the improvements in various HRD system, process and practices including the digital initiatives for better engagement and enhancement of employee experience. He has been instrumental in formulating talent acquisition strategies to build a strong human resource pipeline for the organization. Shri Gupta was involved in implementation of the City Gas Distribution network in Taj trapezium zone and led several initiatives for bringing down the stock loss in the region during his initial career stint in GAIL.

Shri Sanjay Kumar is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree. He joined GAIL in the year 1988 and over the next three and a half decades has worked in various roles across domains including Gas Marketing, CGD Business, LNG Sourcing/Trading/Shipping, Business Development, Gas Transmission, Projects Management & Gas Pipeline Operation & Maintenance. This cross functional and multifarious experience has enabled him to gain deep insight on all aspects of the gas and LNG value chain.

Shri Sanjay Kumar played an important role in developing GAIL’s overseas LNG trading subsidiary GAIL Global (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. into a standalone entity that is now well established in the global LNG business.

Shri Sanjay Kumar was GAIL’s nominee Director on the Boards of GAIL Global (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., GAIL Global (USA) LNG LLC, GAIL Global (USA) INC and Chairman of Maharashtra Natural Gas Ltd (MNGL). He was Managing Director of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL), the largest CNG distribution Company of India before assuming the Charge of Director (Marketing), GAIL.

Shri Rajeev Kumar Singhal Mr Singhal is an Electronics and Communication Engineer from IIT BHU Varanasi with Diploma in Business and Finance-ICFAI. He joined GAIL in 1989 as Assistant Executive Engineer and has spent more than 3 decades at GAIL in various profiles. He has gained extensive exposure in operation & maintenance of natural gas installations, SCADA / Telecom, LNG Sourcing, Trading, Shipping, Marketing and Business Development activities covering Merger & Acquisition, Diversification, Renewables / Green Hydrogen, etc. A few of his notable achievements have been marketing of US LNG to 6 fertiliser plants under long term contract, renegotiation of LNG sourcing contracts from Qatar and Russia, spearheaded acquisition of JBF Petrochemical Limited through NCLT, setting up of India’s first Small Scale LNG project and acquisition of 26% stake in Japonica, an LNG vessel company.

Shri Asheesh Joshi is an IAS Officer of 2006 batch belonging to Uttarakhand Cadre. Shri Asheesh Joshi was Secretary (Additional Charge) of Drinking Water & Sanitation Department, Govt. of Uttarakhand prior to his posting in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He possesses rich experience of holding the position of District Magistrate and working at Senior Position in various Departments such as Housing, Home, Agriculture, Finance, Land Revenue, Planning, Energy, Tourism and Rural Development in the Govt. of Uttarakhand.

Shri Kushagra Mittal is a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from MNNIT, Allahabad. He has subsequently pursued Master's in Public Policy from IIM, Bangalore where he was awarded Director's Gold Medal for best overall performance.

Shri Kushagra Mittal is working as Director in the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. He is an IRTS Officer from Civil Services batch of 2010. He looks after the matters relating to Marketing division of the ministry and oversees Pricing Policy, LPG verticals there. He has worked as Assistant Operations Manager, Divisional Operations Manager, Area Railway Manager and Senior Divisional Commercial Manager at various divisions of Western Railway where he oversaw train operations and business development in addition to general administration. Prior to joining Civil Services, he has worked with BHEL, a Maharatna CPSE thermal power plant design. He has keen interest in Business processes and financial management and is a Behavior Economics enthusiast.

Shri Akhilesh Jain is a Post graduate in commerce, LL.B. and a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. In a professional career spanning over 19 years, he has rendered services in the field of audit, consultancy in company law matters, income tax matters and other fiscal laws to various Public Sector Companies, Public Sector Banks, Co-Operative Sector, Private Sector Companies, Defence Units and other forms of business establishment.

Shri Jain has been

• Independent Director of Mineral Exploration Corporation Ltd. (MECL) from 02.02.2017 to 01.02.2020.
• Member Regional Direct Tax Advisory Committee (2010 to 2014)
• Director, Tax Bar Association, Jabalpur (2012 to 2016)
• Executive Council Member Pt. SN Shukla University, Shahdol (2018 to 2021)
• Board of Governor Member Jabalpur Engineering College (06.10.2020 to 05.10.2023)
• Chairman of Jabalpur Branch of Institute of Chartered Accountant of India for the year 2010-11,
• Associate Director of Jabalpur Mahila Nagrik Sahkari Bank (For 2 Months) Director of Tax Bar Association Jabalpur (2012 to 2016)
• Member of Regional Direct Tax Advisory Committee CBDT from 2010 to 2014
• President of Madhya Pradesh Ice Skating Association.
• He is associated with various charitable societies, NGOs as consultant, adviser, auditor and member of the executive committees.
• Shri Jain took part in various professional discussions and represented many national level conferences, also participated actively and contributed at conferences/seminars for development of professional knowledge and skill.

Shri Sher Singh is a Post Graduate in English from Agra University of Uttar Pradesh. He has rendered his services in the field of Education Consultancy, Horticulture, Eco friendly Real Estate Development, Social Welfare through Education and Naturopathy.

By profession, he is an agriculturist and is involved in various cooperative activities. He has keen interest in social and political affairs for serving into education and agriculture field especially for deprived persons in rural areas. He is having a rich experience of rural activism being the Pradhan of his village, Usarah Rasulpur of Khair Tehsil, Dist.-Aligarh (UP) in 1995.

He has made great endeavours for ‘Girl child education’ by putting several education setups in rural areas and got them managed all as a Manager. The ‘Adarsh Kanya Siksha Samiti’ has a distinguished and unique identity in its respective field in Distt. Aligarh of Uttar Pradesh. He has varied experience in co-operative sector since (1996 -1999) as a Chairman Sahakari Sangh, Jattari, Aligarh.

Shri Sanjay Kashyap is a post Graduate in Management, Sociology, Environment and Training & Development from various universities and renowned Institutes. He is also Graduate in Science and Law. In a professional career spanning over 22 years, he has rendered services in the field of Legal consultancy as an Advocate at District Civil Courts, Ghaziabad in Criminal, Civil, Environmental and Consumer related matters. Apart from this Shri Sanjay Kashyap is having another unique identity of having Expertise in matters related to Water nationwide. His NGO named Centre for Water Peace engaged to provide a shared platform to stakeholders like Govt., Experts, Activists, Scientists, Institutions, public etc. He has provided his services as an Expert for the Namami Gange Project under the Census Survey of Water bodies of Ganga Basin Project under the aegis of Quality Council of India. He rejuvenated 18 ponds in the periphery of Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam in different villages and urban areas during 2008 to 2011. Prepared rejuvenation plans for 'Buda Talab' of Bareilly, 'Achal Talab' of Aligarh and 'Pakka talab' of Ghaziabad in association with the IIT Delhi in 2015.

He suggested a plan of Rejuvenation Model of River through rain water harvesting by river ponds to Water Ministry in 2015 Jal Manthan, Vigyan Bhavan. Several ponds have been rejuvenated and several have been identified.

Developed economic viability and easy to install Phytobio-remediation technology and get implemented it to micro and macro level at Shamli and Kerana and thier Team got rewarded by District Administration in 2017. Now over that theme Saharanpur and Ghaziabad Nagar Nigam are implementing Drain cleaning drive with the supervision of his NGO team.

Delivering lectures as Training programs to students of several Universities, IITs and Engineering streams regarding Traditional wisdom of under ground water recharging. Providing consultancy to village level activity of pond rejuvenation and coordinate other players such as IITs, Universities, researchers and interns to make it successful and sustained.

Coordinate nationwide advocacy movement for Constitution of Pond Authority and provide consultancy to state Govt. to draft the Model Act. Sh. Sanjay Kashyap has been associated withn many renowned Institutions like India River forum, Himalayan Institute of Ecology and Science, Ganga

Vichar Manch, Ved-Vigyan Study Center of BHU, Arnya Environment Center, INTACH and WWF. He is Expert Member of State Wild Life Board of Uttar Pradesh in the Chairmanship of Chief minister and chair other many govt. task based committee over the subject of Environment. He has been National awardee of WWE Pond rejuvenation person 2019, Gandhi Shanti Award, State Environment Ratan and many more.

Dr. N. Narayanasamy a Structural Biologist received Ph.D from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan with the prestigious Japanese Government “MONBUSHO” Fellowship. He has received Bachelors and Masters in Physics from Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Coimbatore. He started his early research career at University of Madras, IIT Madras and IISc Bangalore. As a successful research associate at National Cancer Institute (NCI/NIH) and Purdue University, USA, he has carried out important scientific projects. He has worked with legendary Crystallographers, Prof. Yukio Mitsui, Prof. Alexander Wlodawer and Prof. Michael Rossmann. To his credit, he has determined the three -dimensional structure of one of the largest Viruses (PBCV).

Dr. N. Narayanasamy possesses a rich experience of 15 years in Pharmaceutical Research & Development sector. He has served at various capacities from Principal Scientist to Associate Vice-President. During his Industrial career, he established a complete protein crystallography facility. He has led teams working on important drug discovery projects. Apart from effective R&D involvement, he has also succeeded in International Business Development activities. His contribution in marketing strategies was appreciated.

As a person giving importance to culture (practice of life), heritage (traditional medicine system), having strong faith in skilled and trained man power (capacity building for the Nation), he was keen to produce trained manpower in India on par with international standards under his supervision during industrial service.

With dedication to science and social commitment, he has volunteered his service to University of Madras and involved in structure determination of many plant proteins. Many structures have been deposited at Protein Data Bank. To his credit, he has published several articles in international scientific journals. He had been an invitee during several International Seminars and Conferences.

Also, as an active member in Societies and Association, he immensely involved in propagating science through mother tongue. He took part in many deliberations in connection with quality education in rural colleges.

With significant experience, both at Industries and Academic Institutions in India and abroad, Dr. Nandhagopal Narayanasamy is continuing his guidance and counselling for the students who want to pursue research as career, especially motivated students from rural parts of India.

Smt. Kangabam Inaocha Devi is a renowned social worker in Manipur. She has done Master in Social Work. She has spent around 15 years of her life for society. She served as Zilla Parishad Member and Pradhan. She has successfully administered several initiatives in public domain and continuously striving towards social, economic and political empowerment of the society.

Prof. Ravikant Kolhe is Jr. Lecturer of Commerce in the higher academic grade at the G. S. Tompe College, Chandur Bazar affiliated with Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati. He was a renowned Lecturer in Amravati Higher Educational Board. He is teaching Accountancy and Secretary Practice subject in G.S. Tompe College, Chandur Bazar. The G.S. Tompe Sarvajanik Trust where he was awarded a good lecturer.

Prof. Ravikant Kolhe did B. Com and M. Com in 1987 and 1990 from Smt. K.L. College, Amravati and the University of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati respectively, securing first class in both examinations. He received his Ph.D. in commerce in 2017 from the University of Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University.

Prof. Ravikant Kolhe is good think tanker and his many articles were published in Amravati’s renowned daily newspaper Hindustan.

He is a good Anchor, Orator and Columnist in Amravati City. He conducts many social programs in his college and Amravati City.

He is associated with charitable society and his social welfare programs are recognized by the Society. He is continuously striving towards social, economic and political empowerment of the society.

Shri Sandeep Sarkar is an officer of the Indian Defence Accounts Service of the 1995 batch. He holds a Graduation Degree in Physics from University of Calcutta and a Post Graduate Diploma in Public Policy Management from the Indian institute of Management, Bengaluru.

Shri Sarkar has a rich and varied experience in the Government of India having worked in the Ministries of Defence and Home Affairs and in the Cabinet Secretariat, in areas of Public Policy formulation, Regulation, Project Management, Public Financial Management, Governance with ICT and Human Resource Development.

He has authored a Research paper on the Development and Design of Information Systems Projects in Central Government Organizations in India. He is a recipient of a Commendation Card from the Chief of Army Staff for demonstrating devotion to duty and bringing efficiency in work.

Shri Sarkar has joined GAIL as CVO on 21st of May 2022.