About Us

Mr. RV Selvam, Group CEO

Mr RV Selvam is a Chemical Engineer with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

He started his career as a Management Trainee with Reliance Industries Limited, India and served the company till 2004 in various positions. During his tenure at Reliance, he had held various positions within the organisation responsible for Marketing of chemicals, Corporate Planning, New Ventures and Aromatics Trading. He held the position of Assistant Vice President in charge of Aromatics Trading in Reliance before he left to found Southern Petroproducts Pte Ltd, a trading outfit head quartered in Singapore.

Established in 2004, Southern Petroproducts is a Singapore 1000 company dealing with commodity trading.He is the founder CEO of Singapore Infotech Pte Ltd.

Mr. Rajeev Srivastava, Non Executive Director

Rajeev has twenty years of Global operating and investing experience in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He is the Managing Partner of Basil Capital Partners. He has a track record of incubating, building and managing global enterprises. He has been a venture capitalist and private equity investor from 2006. He founded Apar Holding Corp. in 1996 in Singapore and turned the company into a Global IT business. The investments made by Insight Capital Partners and Warburg Pincus in Apar have given them high return.

Prior to Apar Holding Corp. he has worked with IGATE and TCS. He has been an investor and active board member in companies like Encora Group BVI, Apar Holding Corp, Cignex Technologies, Servion. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and a MBA from Mumbai University.

Mr. Ramesh Patel, Executive Director

Mr. Ramesh Patel has an experience of over 30 years in trading of Chemicals, Dyes and Intermediates.

He served as an Executive Director at Bodal Chemicals Ltd until 2012. Bodal Chemicals Limited is among world’s largest manufacturer and exporter of Dyes Intermediate, Dyestuff and Sulphuric Acid.

He then founded Laxmi International, a global Chemicals Marketing and Sourcing Firm. The company is into trading and sourcing of wide range of Chemicals which includes Dyestuffs and Dye Intermediates, Inorganic & Organic Chemicals; Bulk Drugs for Intermediates and many more.

He holds a BCom & LLB degree from Gujarat University.

Mr.Rengaraju Krishnan, Non Executive Director

Mr. Rengaraju Krishnan has over 40 years of rich experience in Petroleum and Petrochemical sector and Management Consulting. Leadership Positions in Marketing, Strategic Planning, Projects Development, Strategic Management and Regulatory Management.

He started his career as a Senior Operations Officer (LPG Marketing) with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) and has held senior management positions in Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) and Reliance Industries Ltd.

He is currently a Senior Advisor to leading International Management Consulting firms such as Mckinsey & Company, Reliance Industries Ltd, L&T Ltd and Ashok Leyland Ltd.

He is an MBA graduate from IIM Ahmedabad and holds a BTech (Chemical Engineering) degree from National Institute of Technology, Trichy.

Mr. Ragunathan Pasumathur Perumall, CMO (India)

Mr.Raghunathan Perumal is an Electronics and Communication Engineer from College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai with Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

He has total of about 30+ years of industry experience. He served for over 20 years in large companies like Larsen & Tubro, Sonata Software, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Accenture, and Wipro in various senior positions in the areas of Business Strategy, Sales & Marketing, and leading large teams in delivering Enterprise Application Solutions. He has 10+ years of entrepreneurial experience in IT, Business Consulting and Food industry leading and transforming companies like Agile Labs Pvt. Ltd and Hasiru Foods Pvt. Ltd in the capacity of CEO and Managing Director.

He also holds a Masters degree in Psychotherapy and Counselling. He has been a Motivational Speaker, Spiritual Healer and Leadership coach with expertise on Neuro Linguistic Programming and Regression Techniques.

Mr. Bhaskaran Sivasamy, Legal Advisor

Mr. Bhaskaran Sivasamy is the managing director of Skandan Law LLC. He is a Singapore-trained lawyer who is qualified to practice law in Singapore,Australia, England and Wales.

Bhaskaran’s legal skill set in advocacy and advisory work was developed over two decades as a lawyer in some of the leading law firms in Singapore (Rajah & Tann; John Koh & Co) and Australia (Corrs Chambers Westgarth).

After graduating from the National University of Singapore and being called to the bar in 1996, Bhaskaran commenced his professional career in Singapore in general litigation before proceeding to specialize in commercial and building construction disputes.Bhaskaran was a litigation partner in a local law firm when he left for Australia in 2001 to pursue postgraduate qualifications. He subsequently worked in the areas of planning and environmental law for an Australian government department before eventually joining a leading Australian national law firm.

After five years in Australia, Bhaskaran returned to Singapore in late 2006 to join a local boutique disputes practice as a director where he stayed for 10 years before finally establishing Skandan Law LLC in 2017.

During his many years of practice, Bhaskaran has appeared successfully as an advocate at all levels of the Singapore Courts, including the Court of Appeal, in arbitration and mediation proceedings in Singapore.