GAIL Leadership

Shri Rakesh Kumar Jain is a Cost and Management Accountant by profession, He has rich and varied experience of around 33 years of working in Oil & Gas sector and regulator.

Prior to his appointment as Director (Finance), Shri Jain held the position of Executive Director (F&A)-HoD in GAIL. Additionally, Shri Jain holds the position of Chairman in GAIL Global (USA) Inc., GAIL Global (USA) LNG LLC., Aavantika Gas Limited, GAIL Global IFSC Limited & Director in GAIL Gas Limited. Earlier he was on the Board of Indraprastha Gas Limited, Bhagyanagar Gas Ltd., Bengal Gas Company Ltd. as chairman and on Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt. Ltd (RGPPL) as Director.

As Executive Director (F&A)-HoD, he headed Corporate Finance and was actively involved in mobilisation of funds from domestic and international markets, major investment decisions in various infrastructure projects. He has also been actively involved in Investor relations and interactions with Analysts fraternity.

He has worked in almost all business verticals of GAIL including GAIL’s largest Petrochemical plant at Pata. He has major contribution in formulation of LNG / RLNG sourcing and marketing policy and Hedging policy for risk mitigation including hedging of the underlying assets.

Shri Jain has worked in the areas of Treasury including Forex Risk Management, Capital Budgeting, 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. Advisor (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.

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 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 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.

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.

Shri Yajurvendra Anil Mahajan Founder, Deepstambh Foundation, is an educationist, social worker who is committed to provide quality higher education to the deprived sections of the society. Shri Yajurvendra is also a member of National Committee for the welfare of the persons with disabilities and National Human Rights Commission of India. .

He has established Deepstambh Manobal, the first free residential project for competitive examination training and higher education and technology training for the students with disabilities, orphan (students above the age of 18) and underprivileged youth across the country free of cost. It has 300 students at present.

Shri Yajurvendra is a career counselor, teacher trainer and personality development trainer. He is one of Maharashtra’s profound and inspirational speaker and has delivered more than 2000 speeches to 10 lac students, parents and teachers on a plethora of topics ranging from competitive examination, career & personality development, parenthood, quality education etc. He has authored books like Abhyasmitra, Careermitra, and Spardha Pariksha Atmavishwas.

Born on 27th March, 1979, he completed his post-graduate programme in English linguistics from University of Pune in 2001. He is recipient of many awards including 'Shahu Phule Ambedkar Award' 2018 from the Maharashtra Govt., ‘Helen Keller Award 2018’ by NCPEDP Delhi, Loksatta awarded ‘Tarun Tejankit’ Purskar for the year 2017, 'Apang Mitra Award' by Helpers of Handicapped, Kolhapur, 'Acharya Hasti Rastriya Ahinsa puraskar 2017, 'Dadasaheb Gujar Award' Pune 2020, etc.