CWC World LNG & Gas Series: 12th Asia Pacific Summit

Darshan Hiranandani

CEO

H-Energy

Mr Darshan Hiranandani leads H-Energy – the energy venture of the Hiranandani Group – one of India’s largest residential developers. Mr Darshan holds a Masters degree with a major in Entrepreneurship and Finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Under his able leadership the Company has ventured into LNG regas terminals and natural gas pipeline projects in India. The Company also plans to develop an LNG liquefaction project and crude oil infrastructure in Canada.

Mr Darshan started his professional career pioneering the development of 23 Marina, a 90 storey, 400m residential tower in Dubai – the world’s 3rd largest residential tower – which generated more than US $250 Million in revenues. As part of the Board of Directors of the Hiranandani Group, Mr Darshan’s achievements also include the establishment of the Dr. L.H. Hiranandani Hospital, which won the coveted Ramakrishna Bajaj Award for the best hospital in India.

Mehdi Chennoufi

General Manager

Shell LNG Marketing and Trading

Mehdi Chennoufi is the General Manager LNG Origination and Business Development and responsible for building Shell’s LNG business East of Suez.

He started his career with KPMG in the early nineties where he got acquainted with the rigour of economic analysis and the art of interpreting accounts. He then joined Shell in London at the turn of the century and focused on gas and LNG business development in Levant before moving to Egypt to grow Shell’s CNG and LDC footprint. In 2004 he was appointed as the Shell shareholder representative in Oman LNG, based out of the Dubai office and in 2008 he moved to the LNG Supply and Trading business looking after Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.

In 2010, Mehdi was appointed General Manager LNG Origination and Business Development for the West Region covering the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Africa and South America and in 2016 he moved to Singapore to lead the East of Suez portfolio.

Mehdi holds a Masters in Economics and a Master in Business Administration from ISG in Paris and the University of Oxford. Besides being an avid sailor, he is passionate about biodiversity conservation and founded Wanakaset.org.

Rajnish Goswami

GM - LNG Marketing

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Rajnish Goswami was named General Manager, LNG Marketing of Mozambique LNG in June 2017. In this role, he is responsible for commercializing Mozambique LNG in SE Asia, Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East markets. Mr. Goswami has more than 25 years of experience in the global natural gas / LNG industry.

Prior to joining the Mozambique LNG team, Rajnish was Team Lead in Shell’s Developing Gas and LNG Markets team in Singapore. 

Previously, he held positions with BG (VP LNG Strategy) and Wood Mackenzie (Head of Asia LNG Consulting) based out of Edinburgh, London and Singapore.

Rajnish holds an MBA with distinction from the University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Mark Gyetvay

Chief Financial Officer & Deputy Chairman of the Management Board

NOVATEK

Mark Gyetvay is the CFO and Deputy Chairman of the Management Board at NOVATEK. From 2003 to 2014, he was a member of NOVATEK’s Board of Directors and served as the Chairman on the Strategy and Investment Committee.  He was responsible for listing NOVATEK on the London Stock Exchange in 2005, and has led many of the Company’s Eurobond and domestic bond placements.

He has been consistently recognized by Investor Relations Magazine as one of the best CFO’s in Russia and the CIS by winning numerous awards and accolades, and was recognized twice by Institutional Investor magazine as one of the Top Five CFO’s in Europe’s Oil and Gas sector.  Mr Gyetvay is the recipient of the Finance Monthly 2015 - 2018  “Best CFO – Russia”, “Game Changer Award – Russia ” 2017 and 2018, and was recently announced as the Institutional Investor’s “Best CFO” in the EMEA oil and gas industry for 2017.

Prior to joining NOVATEK, he worked at a number of independent oil and gas companies in the United States since 1981 where he specialized in financial and economic analysis matters in both the upstream and downstream segments, as well as was a former partner in PWC’s Petroleum practice based in Moscow from 1995 to 2003. He is an internationally recognized expert in the oil and gas industry and a frequent speaker at leading industry conferences.

Ranee Kositvanich

Assistant Governor - Fuel Management

EGAT

Chen Rui

Director of Natural Gas Department, Senior Economist

CNPC ETRI

CHEN Rui is Director of natural gas department of CNPC Economics & Technology Research Institute. Mr. Chen is the key contributor to several national and CNPC level projects, including China's Oil and Gas Sustainable Development Strategy, International Oil Market Trend After Financial Crisis, International Energy Outlook, etc. Mr. Chen is the author of more than 50 papers published in many reputable journals including International Petroleum Economics, China Petrifaction, etc. Mr. Chen is also regularly invited for attending international oil price symposiums held by NDRC and NEA, frequently consulted by different national ministries and CNPC departments on oil market issue, and receives many exclusive interviews by Xinhua News Agency, International Business Daily, China Petrochemical News, etc.

Gordon D Waters

CEO of Asia Pacific for GEM

ENGIE Global Markets

Gavin Thompson

Vice Chairman, Energy - Asia Pacific

Wood Mackenzie

Gavin joined Wood Mackenzie in 1997. Between 2003-2014 Gavin was based in Beijing managing Wood Mackenzie’s China research.

Gavin then relocated to Tokyo to head Wood Mackenzie’s gas/power research across North East Asia before returning to Beijing in 2016 to lead Wood Mackenzie’s overall China business.

In 2017 he took up the position of Head of Asia Pacific Research and in 2019 was made Vice Chairman, Energy for Wood Mackenzie’s Asia Pacific business. He is currently based in Singapore.

Gavin graduated from Newcastle University with a first class degree in Politics, Economics and Chinese Language.