Team

Adarsh Soni

Chairman Emeritus

 
Adarsh Soni, Chairman Emeritus

B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering) – IIT, Delhi; MBA- FMS, Delhi University

He superannuated from EIL as Director (Technical) in 2004 after serving at various positions over the period 1968 to 2004. Thereafter, he worked in different capacities in various companies like Punj Llyod Ltd [President (EPC-Power, Oil & Gas)], MRPL/ONGC [Associate President / Sr. Advisor], etc. He has wide experience in the area of Hydrocarbon Industry covering oil refining, petrochemicals, gas processing, fertilisers, etc., in services including DFRs, Technology Selection, EPC Execution, Detailed Engineering, Project Management, etc. He Remains overall guide to all at IDS in its persuits towards business excellence.

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Niranjan Raghunath Raje

Chairman

 
Niranjan Raghunath Raje

B.Tech – Mechanical Engineering (University of Bombay); M.Sc. in Engineering (The University of Leeds, UK)

After post-graduation, Mr. Raje joined the British Petroleum Co. U.K at London for some time and returned to India to join the Indian Oil Corporation’s R & D Division in 1972, when it was incepted. He superannuated in 2005 as Director R&D as well as a member of Indian Oil’s Board. He has worked in various capacities and various fields, as Head of Lubricants Technology, to Executive Director in charge of Fuels, Emissions and Alternates Fuels. Mr. Raje has over 40 years of Experience and has worked on various important projects on fuels quality, Auto emissions and Alternative fuels initiated by various Govt. agencies / ministries such as The Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Ministry of Environment, Central Pollution Control Board etc. Mr. Raje has published over 50 research papers in reputed Indian and international journals/ publications and has over 40 National & International patents including US patents. He has also been recipient of several awards including the Prestigious Department of Science & Technology (DST Govt. of India) award from the President of India in 2004. Currently, he is a member of Expert Appraisal Committee of the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Govt. of India and also a member of Environment Pollution (Prevention & control) Authority of Govt. of India- a body established to advise the Supreme Court of India on matters relating to environmental pollution

Rekha Misra

Managing Director

 
Rekha Misra

M. TECH. (Polymer Science & Technology) – IIT, DELHI

She is a life member of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers. She has over 27 years the industry experience in various areas including polymers, chemicals, and petrochemicals for techno-economic feasibility studies, market research studies, refinery and port terminal studies. She has extensively worked in the field of engineering plastics, commodity plastics, synthetic rubbers, bulk chemicals and petrochemicals and inorganic chemicals. Closely focusing on end-user markets and consumers, she has been instrumental many-a-times in conveying the voice/grievances of small/medium consumers to the manufacturers thereby helping them in formulating the most suitable marketing strategies for re-positioning of their products in the market. She has authored several articles in technical journals and is a regular speaker at various conferences in India & abroad.

M.K. Joshi

Director

 
M.K. Joshi

B. Tech (Chemical Engineering) – IIT, Kanpur

Mr MK Joshi graduated in Chemical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1972 and joined Engineers India Limited (EIL) immediately thereafter. He worked at EIL till his superannuation in July 2010, at which time he was Director (Technical), a position that he had held since January 2005. During his tenure at EIL, he was actively associated in activities from concept to commissioning for various projects in the Hydrocarbon Processing Sector
He has had extensive exposure to a wide range of technologies from major overseas process licensors and this has helped to identify areas where indigenous capabilities can be developed, so that repetitive technology import can be reduced. He was directly involved in a large number of grass root and brown field projects in the oil and gas sectors and had the direct responsibility for the design of process units that were set up for the first time in India using in-house expertise. In addition, he is actively involved in providing faculty support for training programmes intended for fresh graduates or refresher programmes for mid level engineers, besides providing specialist support to interview panels in different organizations, including EIL.

Shambhavi Patil

Director

 
Shambhavi Patil

M.A. (Operations Research) – Delhi University; Diploma In Consultancy- The Consultancy Development Center, New Delhi.

Has Masters Degree in Operations Research from Delhi University and a Diploma in Consultancy from the Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), New Delhi. Has over 28 years’ experience with diverse projects such as market studies, customer identification, consumer profiling, site selection etc. in the field of consumer products, automobiles, chemicals, petrochemicals, steel and other specialised products. She has also worked on related fields of Environment & Energy. Client relationship and field work are her forte. Deep dive analysis, and 360o view of task at hand are her specific features. Based in Mumbai, she covers the western zone for IDS.

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Rakesh Grover

Director

 
Rakesh Grover

B. Sc. Engg (Mech.) – Delhi college of Engg, University of Delhi.

Has over 40 years of experience at esteemed organisations such as BARC, EIL, L&T Power, Punj Lloyd Ltd. and JITF infrastructure. in the geographies like China, Saudi Arabia, and India in the senior level capacities of Director, Head of the project, CEO, President-EPC, CEO-Process vertical, and managing Director, etc. At IDS, he is involved in the technical projects such as technical support owners engineer, identification of risk in major projects, independent review of clients documents for competeness and recommendations, etc.

Mr Amish Shah

Strategic Advisor

 
Amish Shah

 

Amish is a Chemical Engineer and has more than 20 years of regional and global experience in sales, business development, strategy, and business planning in leading companies. He is Founder and CEO of Avviso Global. Avviso Global is a knowledge based marketing and consulting company for Polymers, Recycling, Chemicals. Avviso Global key activities represents leading suppliers of Polymers, chemicals, additives, recycle polymers for India/global market and advises leading speciality chemicals/polymer converters in India on growth strategy, Mergers and Acquisitions and International business development.
Before starting own venture, Amish was Senior Vice President at Reliance Industries Limited. He has managed RIL Polyethylene business with P&L responsibility of USD $ 1.5 Billion and was sales head for one of the largest Reliance Polymer Sales Offices. Prior to RIL he held senior positions in Nalco Chemicals (Ecolab), ExxonMobil Chemicals and Pentair in various global roles. He possesses good understanding of integration of Oil to Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Polymers, Recycling, Speciality Chemicals for Oil & Gas. Amish is advisor on board of multiple companies and active in Industry associations.