MANGALORE: Vishnu Agrawal, director finance, MRPL has been given additional charge as managing director of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) from Friday.
He took over from PP Upadhya, who superannuated on July 31, 2014.
Agrawal, who has been serving as director finance on the board of MRPL from April 2011, also held additional charge of HR till recently. He also serves on the boards of Shell MRPL Aviation Fuels and Services Limited (SMAFSL) and Mangalore
SEZ Limited (MSEZ) as director and is a member on various board level committees of all the three Companies.
He is also a special invitee on the board of ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited (OMPL) and also a member of the committee of Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited (ISPRL), specially formed to negotiate with prospective partners.
Agrawal has been an active member of different high powered committees like ESC, BPO and IWG etc. for more than a decade, representing ONGC and MRPL.
Agrawal is also industry coordinator for import of crude oil from Iran and has been instrumental in maintaining uninterrupted crude supplies from Iran, even during these turbulent times.
He was actively involved in MRPL governance from June, 2010 as group general manager (Finance), even while he was general manager, heading ITD and treasury management, at ONGC.
Agrawal had joined ONGC in June, 2003 as DGM (Head-Integrated Trading Desk - ITD), and was elevated to the post of general manager, heading ITD and treasury management in 2009.
Prior to his joining ONGC, he held various positions in Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (1982-2003)- in product accounting, inter-oil company transactions, managing indirect taxes (Customs/ Excise) of bonded installations for imported and indigenous products and International Trade in Corporate Office and managing one of the largest depots of Indian Oil.
Source : timesofindia.indiatimes.com