Goutom Chakraborty has taken over as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GAIL Gas Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GAIL (India) Limited, engaged in the City Gas Distribution business. He has taken over the charge from Raman Chadha.

Prior to this assignment, Chakraborty was serving as Executive Director for City Gas Distribution (CGD) Business Vertical in parent company GAIL (India) Limited.

He has rich and diverse experience encompassing more than 32 years in Natural Gas value chain including O&M of Cross-Country Natural Gas Pipeline & GPU, Renewable portfolio of GAIL in Wind and Solar Energy and Marketing.

He has been instrumental in implementing marketing strategies across 4 Ps (Product, Price, Place & Promotion) of CGD & leveraging state of the art technology leading to increase in gas sales.

Chakraborty is presently also in the Board of Directors of Bengal Gas Company Ltd. and Tripura Natural Gas Company Ltd (Joint Venture Companies of GAIL (India) Limited).