About Us
Mr. Rajneesh Narang is Chairman & Managing Director (Additional Charge) & Director (Finance) of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (‘HPCL’), a Maharatna Oil Company.Prior to this, Mr. Rajneesh Narang was Executive Director – Corporate Finance & Chief Financial Officer of HPCL. He has also 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 Subsidiary/Joint Venture Companies.
A Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a degree in Masters in Financial Management, Mr. Narang brings with him rich and varied professional exposure of more than 3 decades across various spectrum of Downstream Oil Company. He has held various key 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 focussed on investment in Human capital for building successful teams and individuals and 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.
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 India. He also serves on the Board of various Group Companies including HPCL-Mittal Energy Limited, India, HPCL-Mittal Pipelines Limited, India and is also a member of the Governing Council of LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur.
Dr. Manaswini Bhalla, Professor in Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, specializes in information economics, with a particular focus on pricing, corporate culture, and political economy. Her research uses empirical and game-theoretic methods. Dr. Bhalla teaches Managerial Economics and Strategic Thinking: Game Theory for Managers to PGP students and conducts executive education on economics and game theory for senior managers. She is currently examining the impact of culture on economic outcomes in corporate boards, entrepreneurship, legal systems, and real estate. Her work on pricing, published in leading journals, explores firm strategies to shape consumer learning.
Mr. Prabh Das has been involved with HMEL since its inception including in the formation of the joint venture. He formally joined HMEL in 2008 and has been instrumental in setting up of the Guru Gobind Singh Refinery project and its operations thereafter. He possesses vast and wide-ranging experience in administration and management, having served in the Indian Administrative Services for over 25 years. He is responsible for leading and managing HMEL and its subsidiaries as Managing Director and CEO.
Prior to joining HMEL, 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 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., HPCL, Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd., Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and Engineers India Ltd.
Mr. Das is a B. Tech (Hons.) from IIT, Kharagpur and completed his Master of Business Administration from Southern Cross University, Australia.
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