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COMPOSITION OF BOARD
OF MAHANAGAR GAS LIMITED MUMBAI
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Mr DEREK FISHER, Chairman
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Mr. Derek Fisher has been elected as the Chairman of Mahanagar Gas Limited for a
period of 2 years effective from May 28, 2009 by the Board of Directors in its
84th meeting held on July 03, 2009.
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Mr. Derek Fisher, aged 59 years, is currently the President
and Managing Director for BG India and is responsible for both upstream and
downstream business of BG in India.
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Mr. Fisher has been with BG Group for eleven years, the last four years of which
as the AGM in Tunisia which is one of BG's large E & P operatingn assets.
Previously Derek was the AGM for South-East Asia, responsible for operations in
Thailand (E&P), Philippines and Malaysia (Power) and Indonesia (LNG)
between 1998-2004.
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Mr. Fisher joined the BG Group from General Electric, where he
held management positions in their aerospace, aero place engines, satellite and
communications businesses. This involved assignments in Singapore, Taiwan and
Dubai as well as in the US.
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Mr. Derek Fisher has graduated from Purdue University, US,
with a Bachelor Degree in Science in Electrical Engineering, and from
Northeastern University, US, with a Master Business Administration Degree.
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Mr B C Tripathi, Director
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Mr. B.C. Tripathi aged 49 years has been appointed as Director
on the Board of Mahanagar Gas Limited by its Board of Directors on July 03,
2009.
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Presently Mr. B.C. Tripathi is the Chairman & Managing
Director of GAIL(India) Limited w.e.f. August 01, 2009.
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Mr. B.C. Tripathi has graduated in Mechanical Engineering from
NIT, Allahabad in 1982. Mr. Tripathi started his career in Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation and subsequently joined GAIL (India) Limited in 1984 when the gas
industry was at its infancy in India. Mr. Tripathi is one of the founder
employee of GAIL and has worked under different capacities in different
departments in GAIL.
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Mr. B.C. Tripathi was the Project Manager for GAIL's prestigious
Dahej - Vijaipur pipeline project which has received Silver medal for
excellence in project management in the mega project category from
International Project Management Association, Germany.
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Mr.Tripathi has a rich experience of more than 27 years in the
areas related to Operation Maintenance of pipelines, project
management,contracts management, customer relationship management, marketing
etc.Prior to assuming current responsibility of Chairman & Managing
Director, Mr. Tripathi was Director (Marketing), GAIL(India)Limited handling
the marketing of GAIL's entire range of products and services in Natural Gas.
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Mr. B.C. Tripathi is also the Chairman of M/s.Brahmaputra
Cracker Polymer Limited and M/s. GAIL Gas Limited. He is also the
Director of M/s Petronet LNG Limited and M/s Indraprastha Gas Limited.
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Mr AZEEZ M.KHAN, Director
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Mr. Azeez M.Khan, aged 56 years, has done M.A. (Rural
Development) from School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, UK and M.Sc (Economics) from London School of Economics &
Political Science, University of London. Mr.Khan has done his IAS Entry
Training at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie;
and served on probation as Supernumerary Assistant Collector, Raigad
District,Maharashtra from 1979 to 1981.
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Prior to taking over as Principal Secretary (Industries),
Industries, Energy & Labour Department, Government of Maharashtra, in April
2008, Mr. Azeez M. Khan has held various positions including as Principal
Secretary of Medical Education & Drugs Department, Government of
Maharashtra, Development Commissioner (Industries) and Chief Executive Officer
of the Maharashtra Industrial development Corporation.
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Mr. Neil Harvey aged 52 years has been appointed as Director
on the Board of MGL.
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Mr. Harvey is the Vice Preseident (Finance) for BG
Exploration & Production India Ltd (BGEPIL) where he is responsible for
finance, tax, treasury, joint venture accounting and internal audit matters. He
joined British Gas Plc's Exploration & Production division in 1990 and has
held a number of senior management and directorship roles in the UK, South
America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and now India. Prior to this he worked
in British Gas' UK downstream business.
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Mr. Neil Harvey is a member of the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants.
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Mr J Wason, Director
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Mr. J. Wason aged 55
years has been appointed as Director on the Board of Mahanagar Gas Limited by
its Board of Directors with effect from October 12, 2009.
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Mr. J. Wason is a Physics Graduate from Delhi University with a
Masters Degree in HR from XLRI, Jamshedpur. He joined GAIL in 1987 i.e. during
the initial years of GAIL and has 22 years of experience in Oil & Gas
sector. Prior to his engagement in GAIL, he has worked in BHEL for 11 years.
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In GAIL, he has handled wide portfolios in the field of employee
relations, customer relations, marketing of products and has steered GAIL in
collaboration with other entities along with expansion of business in various
parts of the country. He is currently heading the Marketing functions of GAIL
from Corporate Office and responsible for marketing of Natural Gas, Polymer and
Liquid Hydrocarbons through out the country.
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Apart from being Executive Director (Mktg), GAIL (India)
Limited, Mr. Wason is also the Director of M/s. GAIL Gas Limited.
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Mr JAINENDAR KUMAR JAIN, Director
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Mr Jainendar Kumar Jain, has been appointed as an independent
Non-Executive Director.
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Mr Jain, aged 64 years, who is an Ex-Director(Finance) of GAIL
(India) limited, is a Chartered Accountant and fellow member of the Institute
of Chartered Accountants of India. He has a total experience of thirty two
years in various Organizations in different capacities of Finance funtion. Mr.
Jain was Director (Finance) in GAIL from 1996 to 2005. He was GAIL Nominee
Director on the Board of Mahanagar Gas Limited from January 1998 to August
2003.He has been on the Board of Indraprastha Gas Limited besides various other
companies in the past.
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Currently, Mr. J.K.Jain is a Director on the Board of M/s
English Indian Clays Limited.Mr. J.K. Jain has extensive experience in the
areas of Finance, Investment, Funding, Compliance, Corporate Governance, Risk
Management etc.
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Dr BASUDEB SEN, Director
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Dr Basudeb Sen has been
appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director.
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Dr Sen, aged 61 years, has over 32 years of executive
management experience in different areas of commercial, development and
investment banking and portfolio management. He has served as Chairman and
Managing Director of the Industrial Investment Bank of India Limited and
Executive Director of the Unit Trust of India. Dr Sen has served on various
Committees set up by SEBI, RBI and domestic financial institutions and industry
associations.
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He is currently Director on the Boards of M/s ITC Ltd, M/s South
Asian Petrochem Ltd, M/s Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd, M/s Sumedha Fiscal Services Ltd,
M/s SREI Venture Capital Limited and M/s
ISPAT Industries Limited.He had earlier served on the Boards of several
companies including CESC and L & T Ltd.
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Dr Basudeb Sen is an M.A. in Economics from Calcutta University
and a Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute, besides being an alumnus of the
Harvard Business School, USA.
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Professor PANKAJ CHANDRA, Director
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Professor Pankaj Chandra has been
appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director |
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Professor Chandra, aged 50 years, is a doctorate from the
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA and BTech from the Institute of
Technology, BHU. Professor Chandra has taken over the Directorship of IIM,
Bangalore from December 2007. Prior to that, he was the Professor at Indian
Institute of Managaement, Ahmedabad. He has been a visting professor at many
renowned universities and institutions in India and overseas.
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The areas of specialisation of Professor Chandra are
manufacturing management, supply chain co-ordination, buiding technological
capabilities and hi-tech entrepreneurship.
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Professor Chandra has authored books, undertaken extensive research work, has
presented several papers in various national and international conferences and
seminars and has been undertaking consulting work for very reputed Indian and
global corporations.
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Mr PRAFULLA KUMAR GUPTA, Managing Director
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Mr Prafulla Kumar Gupta, aged 48 years, graduated in Mechanical
Engineering in 1982. Mr Gupta has a rich experience of more than 25 years in
Hydrocarbon Industry. He has worked in Indian Oil Corporation Limited and Oil
and Natural Gas Corporation Limited.
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Mr Prafulla Kumar Gupta, prior to his secondment to MGL, was a
Zonal General Manager in GAIL, Mumbai. In GAIL, Mr. Gupta was associated with
the construction, commissioning and operation and maintenance of India's first
cross-country HVJ gas pipeline. Thereafter, he contributed in commissioning and
operation and maintenance of LPG extraction facility at Vijaipur. He was the
In-charge of Corporate O&M Control Room at Delhi before moving to the arena
of Corporate Governance by assisting Director (Projects) of GAIL where he
handled variety of proposals covering entire spectrum of the organization
including Projects, O&M, Marketing, Business Development, Finance etc.
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As Zonal General Manager at GAIL, Mumbai, Mr. Gupta had been
looking after GAIL's marketing activities in the fields of natural gas,
petrochemicals, liquid hydrocarbons and bandwidth in entire Maharashtra and
Goa.
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Mr WILLIAM ALLAN PERRIN, Technical Director
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Mr. William Allan Perrin, has over forty years experience in
working in the International City Gas Distribution business. Prior to joining
MGL he had worked in Algeria, Brazil, U.K and in other Downstream companies in
India.
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From November 2002 to April 2006, he was appointed as Director
Technical of M/s Gujarat Gas Company Limited, India (BG Group) and was,
interalia, responsible for setting policy, strategy and ensure high performance
in HSSE, Asset Integrity, Operations and construction activities of the Company
and to achieve volumes, PBIT and ROACE targets set by the Shareholders.
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From May 2006 to November 2006, Mr. William Allan Perrin was
Director Technical Services Downstream - BG India.
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Mr. William Allan Perrin has a degree in Gas Engineering and is
Chartered Engineer from UK. He has held various posts including being Chairman
of the Institution of Gas Engineers, UK SW.
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