Shri S. Venkatraman joins as GAIL Director

Shri S. Venkatraman has today joined as Director (Business Development) of GAIL (India) Limited. Prior to joining as Director (Business Development), he was Executive Director (Business Development), GAIL since April 2008. As Director (BD), he is in charge of GAIL’s Business Development, Project Development, Petrochemical operations, Exploration & Production and global ventures of the Company.

Prior to his assignment as Executive Director (BD), he was incharge of Marketing for various products of GAIL including natural gas, petrochemicals, liquid hydrocarbons and telecom bandwidth at Ahmedabad Zonal Office. He also headed the Petrochemicals Marketing Department at Corporate Office as General Manager (Marketing). He was part of the core team that worked on the development and implementation of GAIL’s first gas based petrochemical complex right from its conceptualisation to commissioning. He joined GAIL as Manager in December 1990 and served at various levels across different departments including Business Development, Marketing and Projects.

Shri S. Venkatraman has done B.Sc. (Physics) from University of Madras, Madras in 1973. In 1976, he completed Diploma in Instrumentation from Madras Institute of Technology, Madras and thereafter Diploma in Management from All India Management Association, New Delhi in 1989. He started his career in 1976 with Instrumentation Ltd., Kota and worked there at various levels till December 1990.