Empowering And Energising People

Throughout his global career Trivikram Arun has learned a lot about the energy business and oil and gas. But when it comes to knowing the drill, the head of shell’s upstream business in india believes people are at the core.

- Wendy Kay

Navigating Trivikram Arun’s resume is a bit like embarking on an exotic trip around the world. The General Manager for Upstream and Managing Director of BG Exploration and Production India Limited (BGEPIL) boasts an enviable career played out in multiple locations, interrupted sporadically by impressive academic interludes to develop his leadership skills.

It started in 2003 after he graduated from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree with First Class Honours. His first engineering role was at Motorola, a job that triggered a love for manufacturing and led to a Masters in Manufacturing and Management as a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge.

“That’s when I really started getting interested in energy security and policy,” he remembers. “Shell, of course, was an energy giant recruiting on campus and that’s how my journey in the energy industry started.”

First stop was Dubai working on Liquefied Natural Gas projects followed by other leadership development roles in Qatar, the Netherlands, Albania and the UK. In between, he squeezed in a Graduate Course in Sustainable and Renewable Energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA on General Management with Distinction at Harvard Business School, which was financially sponsored by Shell.