Cairn Vedanta Oil and Gas

International oil & gas executive with more than 27 years of experience leading upstream operations, production optimization and growth, field development, drilling campaigns, and operational transformation across Europe, MENA, CIS, Asia and emerging markets. - Managed production Exceeding 200.000 BOED - Managed Annual CAPEX/OPEX exceeding 1B$ - Capital allocation and production uplifting - Full P&L accountability - Leadership across Europe, MENA, CIS and Asia - Production Growth - Field Development - Board-Level Reporting - Cross-functional Leadership - Cost control ($/boe) - Exploration & Development Strategy - Capital Projects (Growth/Sustenance) - M&A/Portfolio Optimization, Organizational Design & Workforce

Leads the Digital and IT department. Responsible to drive the Digital agenda and ensure best-in-class IT function. Responsible for identifying and delivering Digital projects across the value chain - Exploration, Surface, Sub-Surface, Asset optimization and ESG. Key KPIs for Digital project includes volume enhancement, cost reduction, HSE improvement and productivity enhancements 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞: 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥-𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Created a culture of innovation through regular ideation workshops and enabled analytics and dashboarding through hackathons. 𝐄𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: Formulated an AI strategy with focus on identifying and executing AI projects. Launched custom Gen AI platform based on RAG architecture called iCairn with use cases across HR, Procurement, Finance, Marketing, Public Policy etc. Currently working on a Agentic AI solution to completely transform the procurement and reduce the procurement time by 80%. Some key projects executed under AI umbrella included – AI based safety detection, AI based vibration monitoring, AI driven seismic data analysis, AI based demand planning etc. 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬: Key projects include – Digital Twin for Gas plant, Asset Performance Management, Data Driven Reservoir Management on Cognite, APC for artificial lifts , IIOT for vibration monitoring , Drone based inspection, E-Permit-To-Work, RFID based Inventory tagging, VR based HSE training, Gen AI, Agentic AI etc 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭-𝐮𝐩𝐬: Leveraged an ecosystem of 2000+ startups in Digital space to test and co-create solution in a “Do fast fail fast” mode. 𝐄𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭-𝐢𝐧-𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐈𝐓 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬: Helped transform IT by implementing projects related to IT asset inventory, FinOps, software asset management, SD-WAN, Azure Data lake and Power BI analytics