Mr. Singhal is an Electronics and Communication Engineer from IIT BHU Varanasi with Diploma in Business and Finance-ICFAI. He joined GAIL in 1989 and has spent more than 3 decades at GAIL in various profiles.

He has gained extensive exposure in operation and maintenance of natural gas installations, SCADA and Telecom, LNG sourcing, trading, shipping, marketing and business development activities covering merger and acquisition, diversification, renewables and green hydrogen.

Presently as Director (Business Development), he is responsible for building GAIL’s business portfolio in India and abroad, merger and acquisition, petrochemical operations and expansion, exploration and production, research and development, start-up initiatives, health safety and environment management, quality management and project development.

A few of his notable achievements include marketing of US LNG to fertiliser plants under long-term contracts, renegotiation of LNG sourcing contracts from Qatar and Russia, acquisition of JBF Petrochemical Limited, setting up of India’s first Small Scale LNG project and acquisition of 26% stake in Japonica, an LNG vessel company.

Shri Vivek Srivastava is Chemical Engineer from Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (Now known as IIT-BHU). He is also a qualified Safety professional (Advanced diploma in industrial safety) and Certified “Energy Auditor” by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). He is a qualified “Internal Auditor” for ISO 9001: 2015, 14001: 2015, ISO 45001:2018 & ISO 50001:2018.

He joined Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited in December 1991 as Management Trainee and rose to the post of General Manager in April-2023. In his long career spanning more than 30 years, he has worked in various capacities in Urea, Heavy Water Plant, Fire & safety and NPK project.

He areas of expertise include Large continuous chemical plant operations , Production planning, Raw material acquisition, Project activities, Energy Management , implementation of ISO standards, Co-ordinating with regulatory Authorities & external agencies, Process Safety Management, Safety Audits, Safety training and HAZOP.

He has published & presented technical papers in various forums.

He has more than 28 years of experience in Mega Petrochemical Plant operations particularly in Gas Cracker Unit, Technical Services Deptt., Integrated Offsite Plant & having wide exposure of Carrying out Mega turnaround of entirePetrochemical Complex.

Besides that, he had also worked in critical positionin Production planning, Strategy Making in Polymer Grade Change Over inclose coordination with marketing company for profit maximization, Raw material (Natural Gas) acquisition, Bio- diversification in plant & township and Energy Conservation.He also acted as bridge between Marketing Services Group (MSG), Pata and OilMarketing Company (OMC, viz. IOCL/ HPCL/ BPCL) for distribution of LiquidHydrocarbons (LPG & Propane).

He coordinated the Process of SafetyManagement, Safety Audits, Documenting Standard Operating Procedures(inhouse & with Process Licensor), Safety Training, Digitization and HAZOP.

He is also associated in Bathymetric Survey of Six nos. of Raw Water Reservoirshaving total Capacity of 7 Lakhs M3 for assessing silt deposition on real time basisand subsequent mechanical dredging for preparing site to install floating Solar Panel,an Initiative to net zero emission.

He had successfully undertaken various initiatives under the caption of ‘Waste toWealth’ by recovering & selling Slop Oil (a revenue earning) earlier that waseventually converted into Oily Sludge as Hazardous Waste being disposed toTSDF involving the substantial revenue expenditure.His combined effort with his team made the ETP/WWTP Plant a sustainable future of Mother Earth by reducing the VOC/ BOD/ COD level far below thestipulated limit of CPCB/ UPPCB/ MoEF&CC.

She is nominated Director (Finance) Talcher Fertilizers Limited (TFL) on 4th June 2022.

She is associated with TFL from October 2018 and played active role in achievement of the Financial closure of Rs 9559.59 crores for TFL Project with Consortium of Nine Banks including execution of Loan Facility Agreement in June 2021. She was also Member of Working Committee for suitable pricing model for marketing of Methanol.

She joined Coal India Limited in 2006 as Finance Officer at Cost and Budget Division of Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Dhanbad. Later in 2008 she joined International Coal Ventures Limited (ICVL), a joint venture of CIL, SAIL & NTPC at Delhi where she worked in the field of acquisitions of coal mines overseas.

She completed her post graduation, Master of Business Administration (Finance) from prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad in 2000. She has diverse experience of 22 years of which 16 years is in Coal Industry.

Shri Naresh Arya, Director (Finance), Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Limited (HFCL) and Fertilizer Corporation of India Limited (FCIL) w.e.f 30.04.2024. He also serves in the capacity of Non-Executive Director on the Board of Ramagundam Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited (RFCL) w.e.f. 19.05.2024.

He is an Indian Cost Accounts Service Officer. He is a Chartered Accountant and M.A. in Economics.He is presently working as Director in Fertilizer Industry Coordination Committee (FICC) in the Department of Fertilizers, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Govt. of India.

He has also worked in the commercial wing of Comptroller & Auditor General of India (C&AG), Department of Expenditure, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, Department of Personnel and Training and Department of Commerce. He possesses wide experience in Government accounts and finance, costing, trade remedy laws, audit, establishment etc.

Shri Chiranjib Patra is a Mining Engineer from IIEST Shibpur. He has experience of 34 years in the coal mining industry including experience as Mine Planning & Design Consultant.

His experience includes, working in underground coal mine, preparation & appraisal of Coal & Metal mining projects and R&D projects for subsidiaries of Coal India Limited (CIL), IISCO-SAIL, MOIL India Limited, etc., preparation of policy documents for CIL viz. model bid documents for development and extraction of coal from mines on risk-gain, hiring, turnkey & mine-developer-cum-operator (MDO) basis, support to Ministry of Coal (MoC) for allocation of coal blocks, vetting of Mining Plans & technical matters, working as a consultant to ECL, BCCL and SECL for undertaking CBM projects, implementation of pilot scale R&D project on underground Coal Gasification in Eastern Coalfields Limited.

He is presently holding the position of ED (Corporate Affairs & Business Development) at CIL as part of the Business Development Division. In in present profile, he is undertaking diversification initiatives in Coal-to-Chemical Projects, Acquisition of Critical Mineral Assets, Thermal Power Projects and Renewable Projects.

In addition to TFL, he is serving as a part-time Director on the Board of Hindustan Urvarak & Rasayan Limited.

Smt. Jyoti V. Patil is the Nominee Director of Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited (RCF) on the Board of Talcher Fertilizers Limited (TFL).

She holds a B.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering and is a Silver Medalist. She joined RCF as a Management Trainee in 1990 and brings over 36 years of rich and diverse professional experience in the fertilizer and chemical industry.

Over the course of her distinguished career, she has held several key positions across Technical Services and operations, including DGM (Technical Services & Central Control Laboratory) and GM (SGP, Technical Services, Plant Health Services, Workshop, ETP, and Projects).

Currently, she serves as Executive Director (Projects, Corporate & Coordination) at RCF. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing major projects at Thal, including the NPK Plant, Phosphoric Acid Plant, Ammonia Energy Saving Project, Ultrafiltration in the Water Treatment Plant, HRSCC, and ETP Upgradation Phase II.