Mangalore : Vishnu Agrawal, Director (Finance) of MRPL will assume as the additional charge of Managing Director of the company.

The post has been given since government has not yet finalized appointment of a regular chief executive.

Government headhunters Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) on January 22 selected H Kumar, Executive Director, Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), to head Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemcias Ltd (MRPL) after incumbent P P Upadhya superannuates on July 31.

Since appointment of Kumar was not finalized, Government had given additional charge of MRPL to Agarwal.

After interviewing 11 candidates, including five group general managers of MRPL, PESB selected Kumar.

About Vishnu Agrawal:
A 58 year old Chartered Accountant Agrawal, has been served as the Director (Finance), MRPL since April 2011. At previous he also serves on the board of Shell MRPL Aviation Fuels and Services Ltd and Mangalore SEZ Ltd as the director.

Agrawal has the experience of serving in the field of finance and accounts, commercial, international trade and shipping, treasury and foreign exchange, corporate finance, taxation and insurance, refinery operations, marketing and management information systems.