Mr. Baroruchi Mishra is techno-commercial leader with 35 years of experience in Oil & Gas and New Energies sector. He has a proven track record of shaping strategies and making material financial decisions working with Executive Level teams – either as a member of Decision Boards or as a decision maker. These decisions were taken in complex National and International business environments.

He currently works as Partner and Group CEO of NET Enterprise Group of companies which provides EPC, EPCM, PMC, specialized Front End Engineering (Concept Select and FEED) and Digitalization services (Industry 4.0 solutions including Digital Twins) globally. Litwin PEL, Abu Dhabi and dDriven Solutions Pte. Ltd., Singapore are the Group Companies of NET Enterprise. He started in this role in Sept 2023.

Before the above role, he worked with Shell as its Project Director for Growth and Transition Projects for India. He was responsible for growing Shell’s footprint in the Energy Transition Projects in India. In this role, Mr. Baroruchi led Shell’s efforts towards making India a Strategic Sourcing Destination for Shell Projects and Assets under the China +1 supply chain de-risking theme of Shell.

Mr. Baroruchi had joined Shell in 2013 as the Vice President for Engineering with direct responsibility for providing Engineering support to Shell Projects and Assets in the East – India, Middle East, SE Asia, Australia and China. In this role he was directly responsible for building the Shell Technology Centre and the R&D Labs in Bangalore as its Business Opportunity Manager and in-Country Project Head.

As the VP of Engineering, Mr. Baroruchi was the Decision Executive for construction of 5 tonne/day Demo Plant of an Industry-First “Waste to Fuels Techology” of Shell called IH2; he was directly responsible for steering the R&D efforts to mature this technology of Shell. In this role, he also served as a Board Member of Shell Global Solutions, Malaysia.

He also worked as the GM and Head of Shell’s LNG Programme office based in the Netherlands and as GM of Project Performance Assurance and Benchmarking for Shell Projects and Technology.

Prior to joining Shell, he worked with BG Group as the Technical Director for BG Asia Pacific Ltd based in Bangkok, and as the Director for Projects and Operations for BG Exploration and Production India Ltd. based in Mumbai with direct P&L responsibility for Panna. Mukta and Tapti fields.

Mr. Baroruchi started his career as an engineer with ONGC and worked for Enron and Cairn Energy for some parts of his career.

He is also an Author (published – Rhythm of Life – A Poetic Rendition of the Bhagavad Gita). He has published multiple articles in various magazines on topics related to Energy Transition and Leadership.

He is a Member on the Board of Living Peace Projects – a Not-For-Profit organization based in the Netherlands which spreads awareness and builds rainwater harvesting and sanitation structures in India.

Mr. Baroruchi obtained his B-Tech degree in Petroleum Engineering from IIT (ISM-Dhanbad). He is a Chartered Manager; he obtained the Chartership after completing his Business Administration from the Chartered Managers Institute, UK.

He also serves as an Adjunct Faculty at the IIT – ISM (Dhanbad) for CCUS and ECBM disciplines in the Petroleum Engineering Department.

It is pertinent to mention that Mr. Baroruchi was selected for the Indian Civil Services in 1992 and was awarded a “Group A” position in the Civil Services. He did not join the Services and continued to pursue his career in the Energy Sector.

Mr. Baroruchi was also shortlisted for the Chairman and Managing Director position of ONGC in the year 2022 by the Public Enterprise Selection Board. A public sector candidate was eventually selected for this position.