Shri Ravindra Kumar (Chairman)
Shri Ravindra Kumar completed B.Sc. (Engineering) in Mechanical engineering from BIT Sindri in 1988. He joined NTPC Limited as Graduate Engineer Trainee officer in 1989 and has more than 34 years of diverse and versatile experience in Commissioning, O&M, Engineering and Project management. He has taken charge as Director (Operations), NTPC on 26th February 2024.
Shri Ravindra Kumar has worked in various capacities in O&M function at NTPC Kahalgaon Project. He has exposure of working at Corporate Centre in Engineering department and as a technical support to Director (Technical).
He was actively involved in development of 1st Maitree supercritical power project of Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company Limited (BIFPCL), Bangladesh. During his tenure as Chief Technical Officer (CTO), he spearheaded all Engineering, erection, commissioning, and O&M activities of 660 MW 1st Unit of BIFPCL.
As Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited, he expedited various construction and erection activities.
He is a professional with Corporate and Site experience, people-centric approach, knowledge, and experience of the entire power sector.
Sanjeev Duggal ( Managing Director)
He has more than 22 years of diverse global professional experience. He joined GE in 2009 and taken various roles in Marketing and Sales in last 11 years. He is currently working with GE Steam Power, responsible for marketing and growth programs for new equipment and services business for Coal and Nuclear power generation business in South Asia.
Sanjeev started his career with Siemens in India and later worked in Indonesia for two years managing complete operations of one of the regions in the country. He also worked as Business Development manager for Siemens in India. From Siemens, he moved to United States for further education (an MBA) and then worked for Cummins USA for 8 year with broad experience in Sales, business development, channel management and corporate Finance
Sanjeev attended Delhi College of Engineering and graduated with a B.E. degree. Sanjeev also hold a MBA degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, USA.
Dipankar Biswas ( Whole Time Director )
He has an illustrious career spanning over three decades in the power sector. He started his career in 1988 as an Engineering Executive Trainee with NTPC and has worked his way through various ranks in NTPC in the area of Design and Engineering, Operation & Maintenance, Commissioning, Tendering, Planning and Schedule. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from NIT, Rourkela and did his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management (Operations & Finance) from MDI, Gurgaon. He is a qualified Cost and Management Accountant, CMA from Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Kolkata and has received management and leadership training inputs from ESCP-EAP (Paris, Berlin) and IIM-Kolkata. In his last assignment, he was heading the Project Engineering (Mechanical) department in NTPC.
Piyush Banafar ( Director )
Mr. Piyush Banafar is the Region Leader responsible for Steam Power Services Operations for South Asia Region including India and Bangladesh. Piyush has over two decades of Power and Environmental Services Industry experience in the US and India. Piyush joined the NGSL Team as a Director in March 2018.
Piyush’s association started with GE in 2004 and during these 14 years he has worked in a series of expanded roles and responsibilities in Technology, Sales, Marketing, Quality and Services. Prior to above, Piyush was the Global Technology leader for Powering Efficiency Center of Excellence for GE. He was also a part of Corporate Leadership staff where he worked in various GE divisions – Oil & Gas (Houston), Aviation (Cincinnati) and Energy Management (Atlanta) businesses. Prior to joining GE, he has worked for over 8 years in India.
Piyush holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from India and a MBA focused on Strategy & Finance from University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Gopalakrishnan Venu ( Director )
Mr.Gopalakrishnan Venu, Executive Director(Engg.) NTPC Limited is a Mechanical Engineer and has been working in NTPC for the past 36 years. He has been handling various divisions of Engineering functions of NTPC right from concept to commissioning of Thermal Power Projects (Coal/Gas) as well as Hydro Projects. He has also spearheaded the Renewable Energy Division of NTPC in the early stages to establish three Mega Solar PV Plants each of 250 MW each in NTPC. Further, the policy Advocacy for implementation issues of New Environmental Regulations (on SOx & NOx) were undertaken under his leadership and presently an elaborate program for implementation of FGDs (of about 60GW) is on-going. In addition, the Pilot Testing of SCR/SNCR technologies for DeNOx suitabily (for use in high ash Indian Coals) in 8 NTPC Power Stations are also in progress as per the plan envisaged.
He is involved in various new initiatives of NTPC such as IGCC, Bio-Mass Co-firing in existing Coal fired Boilers, setting up of Waste to Energy (Wte) plants, Development of Advanced Ultra Supercritical (AUSC) plant at Sipat, Air Cooled Condensers (ACC) for Power Plants, Implementation of Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) plants etc.
Puneet Bhatla (Director)
Puneet Bhatla has 30 plus years of experience working with premier Power Sector companies like NTPC Limited, Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited and Siemens India Limited in engineering, product management, project execution, business management/development, technical licensing management functions for Steam turbines, as well as Gas turbines. He is currently leading India Services Operations team as Executive Leader at GE Steam Power.
He has also supported, Board of Studies of Department of Mechanical Engg, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, for two years since 2020, as Co-opted Member.
He joined NGSL’s Board as an Additional director on 21/03/2022
Vinit Pant (Director)
Vinit Pant is the Chief Commercial Officer for GE’s Steam Power business in South Asia region. In this role, Vinit leads the sales function developing and delivering solutions that will offer customers the best products and services for the Steam Power portfolio.
Vinit brings extensive experience in driving sales and business development initiatives in public and private power utilities. He began his GE career in 1997 and since then, he has held a wide range of Sales roles with increasing leadership in the region. Most recently, Vinit was the Sales Leader for Air Quality Control System (AQCS) business for the India region.
Vinit holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Calcutta University, India.
He joined NGSL’s board as an Additional Director on 26/02/2022.
Avnish Srivastava (Director)
Mr. Avnish Srivastava has a rich experience of 37 years in Contracts & Materials functions, followed by specialized function of handling Contractual disputes. After completion of his B.Tech. (Electrical) he started his career with NTPC in the year 1985. During his stint in NTPC, he also did MBA, through distance learning, specialising in Marketing. He has handled Purchase, Stores, Inventory Control, Planning & Systems group formulating various guidelines for compliance by various Sites for system improvements and uniformity across Sites & Corporate contracts functions. He has successfully handled many activities undertaken by NTPC for the first time, like large value procurement of imported coal, award of ERP & related Hardware and Communication Packages, Consultancy contracts relating to organizational transformation, Mega Risk Insurance etc. Mr. Avnish Srivastava is also on the Board of Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (PVUN Limited), a Joint Venture Company of NTPC with Jharkhand Government, as NTPC’s nominee Director.