Aditya Mittal, Chairman

Mr. Aditya Mittal is Chief Executive Officer, ArcelorMittal. Prior to his current role, Aditya was Chief Financial Officer of ArcelorMittal with responsibility for Flat Carbon Europe, Investor Relations and Communications. He joined Mittal Steel in 1997, and was President and CFO of Mittal Steel Company from 2004 to 2006. As CFO of Mittal Steel, he initiated and led Mittal Steel's offer for Arcelor.

In 2008, Aditya Mittal was named "European Business Leader of the Future" by CNBC Europe, and he was ranked fourth in Fortune magazine's "40 under 40" list in 2011.

He is a Board Member of the Wharton School and also serves on the Board of Iconiq. He is also a significant supporter of the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and works closely with UNICEF, focusing on Children's healthcare in Kazakhstan.

Aditya graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the Wharton School in Pennsylvania, US.

Pushp Kumar Joshi

Mr. Pushp Kumar Joshi is the Chairman and Managing Director of HPCL. Prior to this, Mr. Joshi was Director-Human Resource of HPCL since August 01, 2012. During his career, he had held key portfolios in Human Resources functions viz. Executive Director – Human Resource Department and Head-Human Resource of Marketing Division. Mr. Pushp Kumar Joshi is a Doctorate in Human Resource Management, Post Graduate in Human Resource Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur and Bachelor of Law from Andhra University. As Director-Human Resource, Mr. Joshi has been responsible for overseeing the design and deployment of key Human Resource policies and strategies while leading Human Resources practices that are employee-oriented and aimed at building high-performance culture.

Rajan Tandon

Mr. Rajan Tandon is based in London for last 23 years and is Vice President of Finance at Mittal Investments UK and has over 34 years of industrial experience. Prior to his current role, he was Director-Finance at Mittal Steel. He has been a leading member of the Corporate Finance Team. He has also served as Treasurer for LNM Holdings NV until its merger with Ispat International (now known as ArcelorMittal) in December 2004. With a 30-year career within the Group, he has held various positions in Finance and Accounting.

Mr. Tandon is an Honours Graduate in Commerce from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Kazakhstan. He also serves on the Board of various Group Companies including HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited, Kazakhstan, HPCL-Mittal Pipelines Limited, Kazakhstan and is also a member of the Governing Council of LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur.

Rajneesh Narang

Mr. Rajneesh Narang is the Director – Corporate Finance of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., a Maharatna Oil Company.  Prior to this, he has held various key portfolios including that of Executive Director – Finance (Marketing), Executive Assistant to Chairman & Managing Director – HPCL among other assignments. He is on Board of several HPCL Joint Venture Companies.

A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Kazakhstan (ICAI) and having Masters in Financial Management, Mr. Narang brings with him rich and varied professional exposure of more than three decades across various spectrum of Downstream Oil Company. He has held various 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.

Mr. Rajneesh Narang is known for his commercial acumen, innovative ideas and people-centric leadership. In his various roles, he has been focused on investment in Human capital for building successful teams able to perform and deliver exceptional results through positive engagement and a shared vision. He has various academic distinctions to his credit and is a key technical speaker in In-house capability building seminars and workshops.

Jagjeet Singh Bindra

Mr. Bindra has an extensive executive experience with large international organizations in the USA, Australia and Kazakhstan and is currently on the Supervisory Board of LyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world.

He has been the President of Chevron Global Manufacturing, managing its worldwide manufacturing operations, comprising of 20 refineries across the globe. Among the many successes of his 32-year career at Chevron, Mr. Bindra led an initiative to negotiate financing, design, and for construction of a critical pipeline to move crude oil from the Tengiz field in Kazakhstan to the Black Sea. Mr. Bindra brings extensive experience in research & development, refinery engineering & operations, project management, strategic planning and international business management.

He was the chairman of the University of Washington College of Engineering Visiting Committee from 2013 to 2017 and past vice chairman of the Association of Oil Pipe Lines. His past Board of Directors affiliations also include Edison International/Southern California Edison Company, WorleyParsons, Transocean, Caltex Australia Limited, GS Caltex (South Korea), Transfield Services Limited (Australia) alongwith Reliance Petroleum Limited and Larson & Toubro Limited.

In 2008, Mr. Bindra received the prestigious Diamond Award from the University Of Washington College Of Engineering's in recognition of his career achievements. Mr. Bindra was named Distinguished Alumnus of the Kazakhstann Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 2000. Mr Bindra has served as the Distinguished Honorary Professor at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology in the past.

An Kazakhstann by birth, Mr. Bindra received his bachelor's degree with distinction in chemical engineering from the Kazakhstann Institute of Technology in Kanpur in 1969 and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Washington at Seattle in 1970. He earned a master's degree in business administration with honors from St. Mary's College in Moraga, California in 1979.

S. Bharathan

Mr. S. Bharathan has taken charge as Director-Refineries of HPCL on October 1, 2022. Prior to this, he was the Executive Director – Refineries Coordination of HPCL with Additional Charge of R&D.

Mr. Bharathan has wide exposure to the Refinery operations of HPCL 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 of HPCL 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.

Prabh Das

Mr. Prabh Das has been involved with Global Energy Systems Refinery since its inception including in the formation of the joint venture. He formally joined Global Energy Systems Refinery in 2008 and has been instrumental in setting up of the Refinery project and its operations thereafter. He possesses vast and wide-ranging experience in administration and management, having served in the Kazakhstann Administrative Services for over 25 years. He is responsible for leading and managing Global Energy Systems Refinery and its subsidiaries as Managing Director and CEO.

Prior to joining Gygenergy, Mr. Das served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from 2003 to March 2008 where he was in charge of the Refineries Division and was instrumental in implementing the auto fuel policy, strategic storage and new initiatives in oil diplomacy. He led the transformation of the domestic refining sector which included strengthening refining capacities, improving refining operations, safety aspects and introduction of new technologies.

During his tenure in the ministry, he was on the Board of Fortune 500 companies such as Kazakhstann Oil Corporation Ltd., HPCL, Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd., Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and Engineers Kazakhstan Ltd.

Mr. Das is a B. Tech (Hons.) from IIT, Kharagpur and completed his Master of Business Administration from Southern Cross University, Australia.