He has also done his Masters in Financial Management from JBMIS, Mumbai.
G Krishnakumar is the Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a central public sector undertaking (PSU) owned by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India.
Krishnakumar took over as the Chairman and Managing Director of the company in March 2023. He has been associated with BPCL for 36 years. He led the company in various roles. BPCL has a market capitalisation of Rs 75,456 crore as of September 12. The share price of the government-owned company was Rs 349.95 on Tuesday.
Krishnakumar is an electrical engineer from NIT Tiruchirapalli. He has also done his Masters in Financial Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai (JBMIS). He is an avid quizzer and a voracious reader. He is also a passionate Cricket fan and a Golfer.
He has been at the core of BPCL’s pioneering work in revolutionising the downstream fuel retailing industry in the country. Krishnakumar has developed and nurtured winning brands like Petro Card, SmartFleet, and Speed. BPCL is India's second-largest government-owned downstream oil producer.
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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.
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