Executive Management

Pankaj Kalra

Pankaj Kalra

Whole-Time Director & Chief Executive Officer

Pankaj Kalra has 23 years of experience and a demonstrated track record of working across multiple sectors.

Nitin Singh

Nitin Singh

Chief Commercial Officer

Nitin is a dynamic strategy and finance professional and brings with him over a decade of cross-functional experience….

Mr Sujoy Mukherjee

Sujoy Mukherjee

Director (Exploration)

Sujoy is a seasoned professional with two decades of rich experience across oil & gas sector in various sedimentary…..

Roshan Kumar

Roshan Agrawal

Director (Projects)

Roshan Agrawal is a Mechanical Engineer, Executive MBA having 29 years of techno-commercial experience in cement,…..

Vikram Godey

Vikram Godey

Vice President & Head, Facility

Vikram is a Mechanical Engineer (1984-1988) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He worked with India’ s premier oil & gas…..

Jonathan Tandon

Jonathan Tandon

Vice President, Drilling

Jonathan Tandon is a seasoned campaigner in oil and gas industry. He has been with Essar since 1986 and has been working…..

Pankaj Kalra

Pankaj Kalra

Whole-Time Director & Chief Executive Officer

Pankaj Kalra has 23 years of experience and a demonstrated track record of working across multiple sectors. His functional skill set includes expertise in M&A, fundraising (both onshore and offshore), accounting, internal controls, procurement and financial modelling. Prior to joining Essar, he was CFO of Cairn Oil & Gas, and has been associated with Reliance, Aircel, Idea, American Tower and EY. Pankaj is a rank holder Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary, with a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Sri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi.

Nitin Singh

Nitin Singh

Chief Commercial Officer

Nitin is a dynamic strategy and finance professional and brings with him over a decade of cross-functional experience, working across metals, oil & gas, infrastructure, and logistics business verticals.

He joins us from the Promoter Office (Ports & Logistics) of Adani Group. Prior to this, Nitin was the lead for Energy Vertical at Essar Capital and was working on new business and fund raising initiatives of the E&P business. Nitin has worked with alongside global consultants, including McKinsey and PwC – Strategy & focusing on developing petroleum retail expansion and gas marketing & distribution strategy for Essar.

Previous to above, he was part of Essar Group’s Investor Relations team and was instrumental in rekindling Management’s connect with leading brokerage houses for Steel & ITES businesses. He was also part of the initial strategy & BD team, PMO and later the transition team of Essar which had led the Stanlow Refinery acquisition. Nitin is an Electronics & Communication Engineer from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum and an MBA in Finance & Marketing from Symbiosis International University, Pune.

Mr Sujoy Mukherjee

Sujoy Mukherjee

Director (Exploration)

Sujoy is a seasoned professional with two decades of rich experience across oil & gas sector in various sedimentary basins & fields in India. His expertise includes exploration planning and execution, discovery assessment, field appraisal, field development and production geoscience. Sujoy has held various leadership positions during his rich two decades of experience at Cairn India Limited. Prior coming to Essar, he was Head – Subsurface with Cairn India Limited. Sujoy holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Geology from IIT – ISM Dhanbad. He is a recipient of the ISM Gold Medal and Hayden’s Medal from the Mining Geological Metallurgical Institute of India.

Roshan Kumar

Roshan Agrawal

Director (Project)

Roshan Agrawal is a Mechanical Engineer, Executive MBA having 29 years of techno-commercial experience in cement, power, mining, oil & gas sector. He has headed functions like purchase & contracts, supply chain, business development, marketing, greenfield project development, operation & maintenance of large manufacturing units. He has worked with prestigious Indian and MNC companies like Tata Steel, Lafarge, Saint Gobain, Heidelberg Cement and Essar. During 2017-20, Roshan independently handled procurement of more than ₹ 1,500 crore efficiently. He also executed end-to-end tendering process and auction worth of ₹ 5,000 crore in the mineral project related service contracts.

Vikram Godey

Vikram Godey

Vice President & Head, Facility

Vikram is a Mechanical Engineer (1984-1988) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He worked with India’ s premier oil & gas company ONGC (1989-2004), mostly in offshore oil & gas processing installations as an operations & maintenance engineer. He also worked in the offshore engineering & construction division as a project engineer responsible for execution of global turnkey projects right from conceptualisation to commissioning of offshore process/wellhead platforms and subsea pipelines. Subsequently Vikram relocated to Singapore (till 2011) covering the entire south east Asia region as a rotating equipment vibration engineer. He served as a third party vibration consultant for major oil companies like Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron, Petronas Carigali etc. Vikram also worked in the pharmaceutical, power and marine segments in a similar role. Experienced in industrial automation projects (Siemens PLC, AC/DC drives etc), Vikram also worked in LPG storage installations, oil/chemical tank farms etc.

Jonathan Tandon

Jonathan Tandon

Vice President, Drilling

Jonathan Tandon is a seasoned campaigner in oil and gas industry. He has been with Essar since 1986 and has been working in various roles in E&P division of erstwhile Essar Oil Limited. He has wide experience in setting up the Vadinar Refinery. Jonathon started his career as Direct Man and gradually rose to the level of Vice President, Drilling. He has presided over drilling operations of EOGEPL since its inception. He holds Diploma in Mechanical Engineering.