Mr. Hemant Rathore holds the position of Executive Director (Aviation) with IndianOil Mumbai. Mr. Hemant Rathore is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the prestigious IIT Bombay followed with a Post-graduation in MBA, Marketing from Faculty of Management Studies Delhi. With a long career spanning 29 years in Aviation Fuel Industry, Mr Rathore has been with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. since 1994 in various capacities in the Aviation Fuel Handling business. He has been associated with the complete value chain of the Aviation Fuel Business.

Prior to his current posting in IndianOil’s Head Office, Mr. Rathore was heading Southern Regional Aviation of Indian Oil. He is an expert in commissioning and start up of Fuel Hydrant System and was associated with the commissioning and start-up of Hydrant Refuelling System at Delhi International Airport and Mumbai International Airport.

In order to meet the IAF requirement in the forward region, post Kargil war, IndianOil commissioned the first strategic ATF storage in Leh in the year 2000 under the leadership of Mr Rathore. During his tenure at Agra, he commissioned the First Hydrant refuelling system (HRS) for Indian Air Force in year 2007. He has also been associated with innovative and strategic fuel solutions for storage & transportation for IAF.

Mr. Hemant Rathore is currently the Director of 6 Joint Venture companies of IndianOil namely IndianOil Skytanking Pvt. Limited, IOSL Noida Pvt. Ltd., Indian Oil Skytanking Delhi Private limited which are joint ventures of Indian Oil and Skytanking, Germany, for handling refueling operations at Airports. He is on the Board of Mumbai Aviation Fuel Farm Facility Private Limited (MAFFFL) a joint venture of IOCL, BPCL, HPCL and MIAL. He is also on board of Delhi Aviation Fuel Farm Private Limted a JV of IOCL, BPCL and DIAL and on the Board of AVI-OIL India (P) Limited, JV of IndianOil, Nyco France and Balmer Lawrie.

Mr. Hemant Rathore is overall head of Aviation vertical in Indian Oil Corporation Limited.