IndianOil Retired Officers Welfare Association

Leadership

Leadership

Shrikant Madhav VaidyaChairman

Shrikant Madhav Vaidya

Chairman

Mr. Shrikant Madhav Vaidya is a Chemical Engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He has over 34 years of extensive experience in refining & petrochemicals operations. He has had a decade-long association with India’s largest cracker plant – the Panipat Naphtha Cracker Complex, a major driver of IndianOil’s petrochemicals business – right from the drawing board stage. He is among the select technocrats in the Indian oil & gas industry who are proficient in all facets of refinery-petrochemicals integration, desirable for the sustainability of the oil & gas industry in the long-term.
Mr. Vaidya is also a Non-Executive Chairman on the Board of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (a Subsidiary of IndianOil), Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd., Indian Oiltanking Ltd., Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Ltd. (all three are Joint Venture Companies of IndianOil). He is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Petronet LNG Ltd. (a Joint Venture of IndianOil) and President of World LPG Association, Paris.

Dr. SSV Ramakumar

Dr. SSV Ramakumar

Director (Research & Development)

Dr. S. S. V. Ramakumar is a Ph.D in Chemistry from IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee). He has more than three decades of experience in research and development and downstream hydrocarbon sector notably in the areas of Refinery process research streams, Automotive Lubricants, Nano-technology Research, Technology promotion & forecasting, Tribology etc. He has authored IndianOil R&D journey book ‘Inventing the Future’ and has over 95 research publications in national and international journals.

He is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of in Lanzatech New Zealand Ltd.

Shri Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra

Shri Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra

Director (Human Resources)

Shri Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra is a Mechanical Engineer from BITS, Pilani and a Post-Graduate in Management from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. Shri Mohapatra has over three decades of experience in the petroleum industry and has handled various assignments in the Marketing Division of the Company including Terminal Operations, Supply Chain Management & Logistics. Shri Mohapatra was also one of the chief architects of the auto-fuel quality (BS-III/BS-IV) upgradation programmes of Oil Companies in India.


Shri Mohapatra is also the Chairman of Lanka IOC PLC (subsidiary of IndianOil in Srilanka). Widely travelled in Europe, USA, Africa and Southeast Asia, Shri Mohapatra has presented several papers in national and international forums and has also published articles in international journals.

Shri Satish Kumar Vaduguri

Shri Satish Kumar Vaduguri

Director (Marketing)

Shri Satish Kumar Vaduguri is a Mechanical Engineer and holds a post graduate degree in Management from University of Lubljana, Slovenia. Shri Satish Kumar has over 3 decades of rich experience in marketing of petroleum products in various geographies of the country.
Prior to joining as Director (Marketing), he was heading the marketing network in the States of Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh as Executive Director and State Head, Madhya Pradesh State Office. During his career, he has been instrumental in implementing key business initiatives like Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG consumer (DBTL), Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), BS-VI fuel implementation, etc. which have been widely acknowledged for their social and environmental impact.
Shri Satish Kumar is also the Non – Executive Chairman of IndianOil (Mauritius) Ltd. (Wholly owned subsidiary of IndianOil) and IndianOil Petronas Private Ltd. (IPPL), a Joint Venture of IndianOil and Petronas, Malaysia. During his tenure, record volumes of LPG Imports were handled by IPPL, which helped the country in meeting the increase in the LPG demand under the Govt. of India’s ambitious PMUY Scheme.
Shri Satish Kumar has widely travelled and has addressed many National as well as International Energy conferences.

Shri Dayanand Sadashiv Nanaware

Shri Dayanand Sadashiv Nanaware

Director (Pipelines)

Shri D. S. Nanaware is a Mechanical Engineer. Shri Nanaware has over 3 decades of rich and varied experience in conceptualisation & design, construction, operations & maintenance, engineering & project management consultancy across the hydrocarbon pipelines industry.
Prior to assuming charge as Director (Pipelines), he was Executive Director (Projects) of IndianOil’s Pipelines Division. During his career, he was instrumental in successful implementation (conceptualisation to commissioning) of challenging pipeline projects (natural gas pipelines, crude oil pipelines & product pipelines) across various geographies.
Shri Nanaware is a keen proponent for ushering a gas-based economy in the country and has played a key role in the formation of two JV companies viz. GSPL India Gasnet Limited and GSPL India Transco Limited, promoted by Gujarat State Petronet Ltd., IndianOil, BPCL & HPCL, to create a pan India gas pipelines infrastructure.
Shri Nanaware is also on the Board of two Joint Venture Companies viz. IHB Ltd. (a JV of IndianOil, HPCL & BPCL) and Indradhanush Gas Grid Ltd., (a JV of IndianOil, ONGC, GAIL, OIL & NRL). IHB Ltd. is implementing the world’s longest LPG pipeline project from Kandla (Gujarat) to Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh). Indradhanush Gas Grid Ltd. is implementing Natural Gas Pipeline projects connecting the states in North East India.

Ms. Sukla Mistry

Ms. Sukla Mistry

Director (Refineries)

Ms. Sukla Mistry is a Metallurgical Engineer from Bengal Engineering College, Calcutta University and also holds an Advanced Diploma in Management from the ICFAI. She has more than 3 decades of rich experience in refining and petrochemicals operation, having worked at IndianOil’s refineries at Haldia, Panipat, Digboi and Barauni as well as at the Refineries Headquarters.
Ms. Mistry has extensive experience in execution of various green-field and brown-field projects in the refineries. Before her elevation as Director (Refineries), she was heading the Barauni Refinery in Bihar where she was instrumental in successful rolling-out of BS-VI grade fuels and Ethanol blended MS.
Ms. Mistry is also a Nominee Director of IndianOil on the Board of Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited and Ratnagiri Refinery & Petrochemicals Limited. Ms. Mistry has won many awards notably ET Prime Women Manufacturing & Operational Leadership Award (2021), SCOPE Award for Outstanding Woman Manager (2016-17), Petrotech Ojaswini Award (2016) and Petrofed Best Woman Executive Award (2009).

Shri Sujoy Choudhury

Shri Sujoy Choudhury

Director (Planning & Business Development)

Shri Sujoy Choudhury is a Mechanical Engineer and an MBA (Finance) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He possesses more than three decades of rich experience across various functions of Oil Industry like Engineering, Retail Sales and Petrochemicals (Marketing).
Before his elevation as Director (P&BD), Shri Sujoy Choudhury was heading IndianOil’s Punjab State office wherein he was in-charge of all petroleum activities in the States of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, and in the Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh and Chandigarh. He has been instrumental in strengthening the Oil infrastructure of the State / UT’s, introduction of Winter Grade Diesel for high altitude areas, development of specialized lubricants for FMCG industry, introduction of geotextiles and steel concrete composite structures for construction in hilly terrains, etc.
He is also a Non-Executive Chairman on the Board of Green Gas Ltd., IndianOil Total Pvt. Ltd., IOT Biogas Pvt. Ltd. and CII Northern Regional Committee on Energy. He is also a Non-Executive Director on the Board of IndOil Montney Ltd. (a subsidiary of IndianOil’s Wholly owned subsidiary, Indoil Global BV, Netherlands.).