Automation For Process Reliability
Group CEO, Jasubhai Group
Mr. Maulik Jasubhai is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Chemtech Foundation & Jasubhai Group, which includes Jasubhai Engineering and Jasubhai Media. He was the Founder CEO of Jasubhai
Digital Media. Jasubhai Digital Media was a pioneering IT Media company with brands like Digit,
Chip, Skoar and ZDNet, one of the first online IT portals in India.
Prior to founding Jasubhai Digital Media he had held the position of Executive Director with
Fischer Rosemount, now Emerson Process Management Systems and worked for the corporate office in St. Louis. Currently he is the Director in charge with Jasubhai Engineering Services in
India, Middle East and world markets, in addition to being the Publisher of all of Jasubhai Media titles and trade shows.
Mr. Maulik Jasubhai holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial management from Carnegie
Mellon University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton Business School, Pennsylvania.
Executive Director, Kochi Refinery, BPCL
Mr. Prasad K Panicker is currently the Executive Director of the Bharat Petroleum Kochi Refinery. A chemical engineer from the Government College of Engineering, Thrissur, and an MBA holder from
Cochin University of Science and Technology, Panicker began his career at the erstwhile Cochin
Refineries Ltd in 1982. He has worked with various operational departments of the refinery and was the General Manager (Operations) of BPCL’s Mumbai Refinery.
An expert in petroleum refining, Mr. Panicker has audited the performance of several petroleum companies across the country as a member of the Oil Industry Safety Directorate (OISD), under the
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He has spent more than 30 years in BPCL-Kochi Refinery &
Mumbai Refinery, in various fields like Manufacturing, Corporate Planning, Process Engineering, Oil
Movement & Storage, Process Safety etc.
Currently he is the overall in-charge of BPCL-Kochi Refinery and looks after Operations, Technology,
Human Resources, Projects etc. He is also the Board Member in Petronet CCK Limited, Trustee on the
Board of Trustees for Cochin Port Trust, Vice President - Kerala Management Association and Member of Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Managing Director, CPCL
Mr. Basu has over three decades of professional experience in refinery operations and management. He had been the Executive Director (Operations), Refinery Headquarters of
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), before taking over as the Managing Director of Chennai Petroleum
Corporation Ltd (CPCL).
A chemical engineer from Jadavpur University, West Bengal, Mr. Basu, also served in diverse capacities in IOC’s Mathura and Haldia refineries. His cross functional exposure would help him extract value from across the hydrocarbon value chain in the downstream, which is invaluable, especially in difficult market conditions.

Automation For Process Reliability
Managing Director, Aker Solutions
Mr. Joshi is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with over 30 years of professional experience. He started his professional career in 1980 with Development Consultants in India.
Over the course of a distinguished career, he has worked both in India and abroad for companies of repute such as Comprimo Engineering, Granherne UK (Halliburton group), and Aker Powergas.
Starting as a Design Engineer in Piping Department, Mr. Joshi went on to gain experience in
Process Design and Project Management. His domain knowledge and appreciation of multidisciplinary interface saw him moving into a role as a Project Manager. He gained experience in the oil & gas industry on both onshore and offshore projects in Oman, UAE and UK.
In July 2000, Mr. Joshi rejoined Aker Powergas as Operations Manager to spearhead the new Oil &
Gas offshore business segment for the company. In 2007, Mr. Joshi was elevated to the position of
Director - Operations and rose to his current position as the Managing Director of the company in
2010. Mr. Joshi has to his credit a number of presentations in various conferences.
Principal Secretary, Department of Home,
Government of Kerala
Mr. Luxman Radhakrishnan, IAS is the Principal Secretary (Home), Government of Kerala. He belongs to the Indian Administrative Service (Kerala Cadre) and has a BSc (Hons.) from Bangalore University,
Masters in HR Management from University of Kerala, MBA from IIM Bangalore in Public Policy and Management with specialisation in infrastructure and a term in the Maxwell School USA in
Public Policy and a two-year Post Masters Degree in International Public Administration from Ecole
Nationale d’ Administration, Paris.
Prior to assuming his current role, Mr. Radhakrishnan held the position of Chairman of Jawaharlal
Nehru Port Trust (JNPT). He was the Principal Secretary to the Government of Kerala for Water
Resources and Chairman, Kerala Water Authority, Principal Secretary of both Power and Ports
Departments with additional charge as CMD; and Chairman & Managing Director Kerala State Power
Finance & Infrastructure Corporation.
He has worked as Secretary for Co-operation, Forests, Ports and Higher Education for five years and as Secretary (Industries) for over five years and several key positions leading the public enterprises in the state of Kerala for over two decades.
Head, Domestic Sales, L&T Valves Limited
Mr. SP Rajanish has nearly three decades of experience in industrial valves marketing, in both India and overseas.
He forged strategic alliances with global oil majors and EPC contractors and played a key role in positioning L&T Valves as a preferred supplier of high-end valves for the oil & gas industry. In the power domain, Mr. Rajanish spearheaded the marketing of new products including ultra high pressure valves for super-critical power plants.
Mr Rajanish currently heads sales & marketing for L&T Valves Limited. He is a BE (Mech) from
Bengaluru University and an avid philatelist.

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DGM Maintenance, Mumbai Refinery, BPCL
Mr. Murthy has worked as an Instrumentation Engineer, in various capacities in Hindustan
Fertilizers, NaMr.up, Madras Fertilizers, Chennai before joining BPCL in 1983 where he is currently working. He has worked as first line Instrumentation engineer in maintenance for seven years and then for about twenty years in projects department in BPCL. He has a rich experience of working in numerous projects small/big, revamp / grass root, energy conservation / capacity enhancement projects. He has been a part of numerous technical discussions with several Indian and foreign consultants. He is an Electronics graduate from BITS Pilani.
DGM Instrumentation, Engineers India Ltd
Design Aspects of Process Safety
Ms R Priyamvada is currently heading Instrumentation division in Engineers India Limited. A science graduate from Madras University, she has obtained her B Tech degree in Instrumentation from
Madras Institute of Technology & Master of Technology (Applied optics) from IIT Delhi. She joined
EIL in 1983 as Management Trainee. She has played a key role in developing technical specifications and standards, conceptualization & execution of Control and Safety Systems for major grass root refineries, petrochemical plants. She has been actively involved in adopting latest technology to instrumentation & automation to process industry like Field bus technology, Wireless technology etc.
General Manager, Operations, Pepperl & Fuchs
Intrinsically Safe & Transparent Fieldbus Infrastructure for Oil Refinery
Mr. Sukumaran Mathoor has a degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT, Calicut, has over thirty years of experience in Design, Engineering, Sales, Project Management, Installation, Commissioning and
Maintenance of Instrumentation and Control Systems including Field Instrumentation, DCS, PLC,
SCADA, Fieldbus, Flame Proof and Intrinsic Safety devices for Process Industries in India and abroad.
He has worked with organizations such as Keltron Controls, Kerala, Saudi Arabian Kent, Saudi Arabia,
PT Polysindo Eka Perkasa, Indonesia, J. Ray Mc Dermott, Dubai and Valdel Engineers & Constructors,
Bangalore before joining Pepperl & Fuchs India Pvt Ltd.
Chief Manager (Projects), BPCL
Case Study: BPCL
Mr. Ashok Simon has over 28 years of experience as an Instrumentation engineer in the refinery industry. He had joined Cochin Refinery as a Management Trainee in the year 1984. He has worked in various Departments of the refinery and involved in all the major projects activities of the refinery.
He has been on a deputation to Baharain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) during 2002-2004. Currently designated as the Chief Manager (Project) at BPCL Kochi Refinery, he is responsible for looking after the Instrumentation activities of BPCL’s prestigious Integrated Refinery Expansion Project (IREP).

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GM, Instrumentation, MRPL
Mr. Sathyanarayan H C has a rich experience of 24 years in Instrumentation and Projects in Power,
Petrochemicals and Refinery industries. He has completed his engineering from the University of
Mysore, Mysore. He started his career with Tata Consulting Engineers, Bengaluru before shifting to
Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited, Maharashtra Gas Cracker Complex, Nagothane. Later he joined the grass root refinery Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, Mangalore during its nascent stages. He has handled projects, pre commissioning and commissioning of all the phases of the refinery. Presently is heading the Instrumentation department at MRPL.
Chief Research Engineer, Fluid Control Research of India
Inspecting & Auditing of Natural Gas Metering Stations as per AGA
Case Study – Orificemeters
Mr. Sivaprakash K G has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Calicut.
He is the Chief Research Engineer at Fluid Control Research Institute, Palakkad, Kerala. He has been working here since 1986, in the field of fluid flow measurement, flow meter/control devices calibration and testing, training of man power, setting up of calibration/testing facilities, site flowmeter calibration, projects, validation of natural gas flow metering lines, maintenance of Ref.
Standards, establishing traceability in flow measurement, internal Quality Auditing as per ISO
17025 etc.
Director, Measurement Solutions, GE India
Latest Trends in Custody Transfer
Mr. Divekar has held the position of Director-Measurement Solutions in GE India and has led the
Measurement Solutions business which is a part of GE Oil & Gas business. Prior to GE most of my carrier, almost 20 years, was with Emerson Process Management. He has a vast experience in various flow metering technologies, Process analyzers and other field instrumentation and control system.
Mr. Divekar has a degree in Instrumentation & Controls Engineering, from College of Engineering
Pune and an Industry experience of thirty years.
Associate VP, Marketing – Flow Automation, Chemtrols Industries Ltd
Metering Stations for custody transfer of Natural Gas & Petroleum Products: an Overview
Mr. Chacko Andrews is a mechanical engineer with over twenty five years of experience in the industry. He has been associated with Chemtrols Industries for the past thirteen years and is responsible for the marketing of flow automation division of the organization. Prior to joining his current organization, he was working with Fischer Rosemount India.

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Director, IT Security, KPMG India
Mr. Sony Anthony has over eighteen years of experience in sales and delivery of Management
Consulting services with special focus on IT, Information Security, Telecom Security Enterprise
Architecuture, Business Continuity, Network and Data Center Architecture Design, IT Strategy /
Performance and Compliance assistance. He has worked across BFSI, IT/ITES, Health Care/Pharma and Telecom sectors; assisted in IT advisory, Application and Core Solutions, Information Security and
Compliance. As a Technologist he has worked on Virtualization /Consolidation, Routing/Switching,
SAN/NAS, Backup/Archival/Restore Technologies, Enterprise Monitoring and Management and
Security/Filtering and has assisted in ISO27001, TIA-942, HIPAA, BS25999, ISO20000, X.805 and ETSI
DGM Maintenance, Mumbai Refinery, BPCL
Mr. Murthy has worked as an Instrumentation Engineer, in various capacities in Hindustan Fertilizers,
NaMr.up, Madras Fertilizers, Chennai before joining BPCL in 1983 where he is currently working.
He has worked as first line Instrumentation engineer in maintenance for seven years and then for about twenty years in projects department in BPCL. He has a rich experience of working in numerous projects small/big, revamp / grass root, energy conservation / capacity enhancement projects.
He has been a part of numerous technical discussions with several Indian and foreign consultants. He is an Electronics graduate from BITS Pilani.
Country Head, Honeywell Process Solutions India
Mr. Amitava Biswas is the Country Head for Honeywell Process Solutions, India. He has been in his current role since December 2010. Formerly he was the director for integrated supply chain at Honeywell Automation India Limited, overseeing the functions of manufacturing, production, operations & maintenance and was responsible for leveraging competencies and footprint across various India entities. With over 25 years of experience in industrial automation and systems, he has spent the greatest part of his career at Honeywell since 1991. He holds a Bachelors in technology from IIT Kanpur. Since then Amitava’s career has moved through various roles in engineering, vertical market leadership and management across Honeywell’s businesses in India.
Global Head of Engineering Improvement and
Cyber Security, ABB Process Automation
Mr. Akilur Rahman has more than 24 years of experience in R&D, Technology Management,
Engineering, Business and Product Development in ABB. He holds a Master’s degree in Technology
(Electrical Engineering) from IIT Kharagpur with wide knowledge of power and automation technology applications in utilities and industries. He has worked in India, Germany and Switzerland in various international and global roles. Currently, he heads the global initiative of Engineering
Improvement and Cyber security in Process Automation division of ABB.