New CMD for Bharat Petroleum

S Radhakrishnan has assumed additional charge as chairman and managing director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) on Thursday after Ashok Sinha decided to lay down office.

Radhakrishnan has been the director (marketing) of the public sector oil company since 2002. He is a mechanical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

He has 33 years’ experience in the petroleum sector, including four years in a government advisory body, the oil coordination committee of the ministry of petroleum and natural gas. He has also been the managing director of Bharat Shell Limited, a joint venture company of BPCL and Shell International, between 1997 and 2002.

Radhakrishnan is currently the chairman of the joint venture companies, Indraprastha Gas Limited, Bharat Stars Services Private Limited.