Shri G.

Krishnakumar takes over as Chairman and Managing

Director of Bharat Petroleum
Mumbai, March 17, 2023:  Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a ‘Maharatna’ and a
Fortune Global 500 Company, today announced that Shri G. Krishnakumar has taken over as the
Chairman and Managing Director of the company.

Shri Krishnakumar is an Industry veteran with diverse leadership experience across businesses

and functional domains in his 36-year journey at BPCL. 

He has been at the core of BPCL’s pioneering work in revolutionising the downstream fuel
retailing industry in the country. He has lead the organisation’s customer-centric ventures into
convenience retailing, premium fuels and also been the one to introduce new tech and digital
initiatives in the company, a first in the Indian Oil Industry.

Shri Krishnakumar has developed and nurtured winning brands like Petro Card, SmartFleet,
Speed, In & Out, which have been significant contributors to BPCL’s differentiated customer
value proposition in the marketplace, reinforcing the Pure for Sure customer promise.

Prior to his elevation to the board, as the head of BPCL’s Lubricants business, he spearheaded
brand MAK’s aggressive growth in the domestic and international markets, and in the
expansion of the product portfolio to cover new and emerging industrial, agricultural,
passenger and commercial vehicle segments. He also championed the expansion of the service
dimension of the MAK brand - MAK Quik, for quick oil change for 2-wheelers which has since
been adopted by millions of customers. 

BPCL prides itself as a learning organization with an overarching focus on continual learning and
talent development. During his stint as Head of Learning & Development and subsequently as
Executive Director (HRD), he led the conceptualisation and implementation of several path
breaking initiatives to bring about a transformation in skilling and leadership development in
the organisation, future proofing BPCL in the face of the emerging challenges and the paradigm
shifts in the business landscape.

He is an Electrical Engineer from NIT (erstwhile Regional Engineering College), Tiruchirapalli and
has done his Masters in Financial Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management
Studies, Mumbai.

He is an avid quizzer and a voracious reader. He is also a passionate Cricket fan & a Golfer.
About Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL):

Fortune Global 500 Company, Bharat Petroleum is the second largest Indian Oil Marketing
Company and one of the premier integrated energy companies in India, engaged in refining of
crude oil and marketing of petroleum products, with a significant presence in the upstream and
downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry. The company attained the coveted Maharatna
status, joining the elite club of companies having greater operational & financial autonomy.

Bharat Petroleum’s Refineries at Mumbai & Kochi and Bina at Madhya Pradesh have a
combined refining capacity of around 35.3 MMTPA. Its marketing infrastructure includes a
network of installations, depots, energy stations, aviation service stations and LPG distributors.
Its distribution network comprises over 20,000 Energy Stations, over 6,200 LPG distributorships,
733 Lubes distributorships, and 123 POL storage locations, 54 LPG Bottling Plants, 60 Aviation
Service Stations, 4 Lube blending plants and 4 cross-country pipelines.

Bharat Petroleum is integrating its strategy, investments, environmental and social ambitions to
move towards a sustainable planet. The company has chalked out the plan to offer electric
vehicle charging stations at around 7,000 energy stations over next 5 years.

With a focus on sustainable solutions, the company is developing a vibrant ecosystem and a
road-map to become a Net Zero Energy Company by 2040, in Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. 
Bharat Petroleum has been partnering communities by supporting innumerable initiatives
connected primarily in the areas of education, water conservation, skill development, health,
community development, capacity building and employee volunteering. With ‘Energising Lives’
as its core purpose, Bharat Petroleum’s vision is to be the most admired global energy company
leveraging talent, innovation & technology.

For further details please get in touch with:

S. Abbas Akhtar,                                                         Lennon D’souza

Chief General Manager (PR & Brand),                   Email: bpclpr.expression360@gmail.com
Email: akhtars@bharatpetroleum.in                     Phone: + 91 98701 13007
Phone: +91 22 22713340

Saurabh Jain,
Chief Manager (PR & Brand)
Email: jains4512@bharatpetroleum.in
Phone: + 91 9895095210