S Venkatraman joins GAIL as director

S Venkatraman has become Director (Business Development) of GAIL (India) Ltd, the company said today.

Prior to joining as Director (Business Development), he was Executive Director (Business Development), GAIL since April 2008, a company statement said here.

"As Director (BD), he is in charge of GAIL's business development, project development, petrochemical operations, exploration and production and global ventures of the company," it said.

Prior to his assignment as Executive Director (BD), he was incharge of marketing for various products of GAIL including natural gas, petrochemicals, liquid hydrocarbons and telecom bandwidth at Ahmedabad zonal office.

Venkatraman, who jointed GAIL as manager in December 1990, also headed the Petrochemicals Marketing Department at corporate office as General Manager (Marketing).