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Mr. Suniti Kumar Bhat is the Founder and Director of Antelopus Energy Private Limited, an India-focused energy Company.

Mr. Bhat served as the Chief Operating Officer and Member- Executive Committee at Cairn Oil & Gas.  He has extensive experience in exploration, development and production operations of all assets and has successfully led the implementation of the world’s largest polymer flooding project at the Mangala Field.

In his more than 25 years of experience in the global Oil & Gas Industry, he has had successfully stints in Reservoir Management and Production Optimization with operators including BG and Centrica in UK & Central Asia. He has completed a General Management Program from Harvard Business School, Masters in Petroleum Engineering from Stanford University and has a BE (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering from Punjab University Chandigarh.

Mr. Siva Kumar Pothepalli is the Founder and Director of Antelopus Energy Private Limited. He has briefly worked with Delonex Energy UK as the Director Operations focusing on Chad assets. Earlier he was working with Cairn as Director – Rajasthan Asset & Executive Committee member. He was leading Operations & Development of all Onshore Oil fields in Rajasthan.

He has more than 25 years of experience in both upstream and downstream industry and has worked in various roles in Offshore Assets of Ravva & Cambay and Onshore Assets of Rajasthan.

Mr. Siva is a Chemical Engineer from NIT Warangal and has done his Post Graduate degree in Management from AIM, Philippines.

Vishruta Kaul is a Partner in the Corporate practice at Trilegal and has over 15 years of experience in acting on M&A, private equity, venture capital and restructuring transactions. She has represented all types of stakeholders including promoters, investors, companies, sellers and buyers in over 200 transactions in industries ranging from entertainment, e-commerce, retail, healthcare, fintech, NBFCs, manufacturing, tractors, services, logistics, and renewable energy. Apart from her expertise in inbound and domestic transactions, she advises Indian companies on their foreign investments and acquisitions and has successfully managed multiple investment projects by Indian acquirers in overseas jurisdictions.

Vishruta also regularly advises clients on various legal issues such as corporate governance, policy matters, compliance, exchange control and other government regulations.

She serves as an independent director of Selan Exploration Technology Limited.

Mr. Singh joined TATA Finlay in 1978, and after a long and illustrious career with the TATA Group, retired in 2014 as General Manager of the TATA Group’s Anamallai Tea Division. Having led various Strategic Business Units during his career, Mr. Singh has a wealth of management experience from the 35+ years he spent with the TATA Group Companies and TATA Associate Companies. Mr. Singh completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Delhi and has attended Management Development Courses at IIM – Ahmedabad and the TATA Management Training Centre, Pune. Mr. Singh and his family have a long association with the State of Gujarat, where his father served in various senior official capacities with the CBI, BSF and Gujarat Police throughout the State, until his retirement.

Mr. Sidhu is a qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has served as a Senior Director and Board Director – HSBC Securities & Capital Markets (India) and as Director Fidelity Fund Management & Barclays Plc. He has also served as an Independent Director on several Boards, including BHEL, NHPC & IIFCL.

Mr. Talukdar was the former Director General, Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH), Government of India from 06 Feb 2014 to 30 June 2015. He is a 1^st position rank holder (Gold Medalist) in B.Tech (Hons.) and Petroleum Engineer from The Indian Institute of Technology (the Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India and he has also been a  distinguished Alumni Awardee of the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.

Mr. Talukdar was a Technical Member of the (Petroleum of and Natural Gas), Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, Government of India from 03 March 2016 to 31 December 2019.

He was also former Director (Exploration & Development) in Oil India Limited (OIL) From 01 December 2007 to 05 February 2014.