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BPCL’s Director (Marketing) takes additional HR charge and IGL chairmanship
Subhankar Sen assumes dual leadership roles effective 1 April 2026.
MUMBAI: When fuel meets people management, sparks are bound to fly and BPCL has just handed the wheel to one of its seasoned drivers for both the road ahead and the team behind it. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) has announced that Shri Subhankar Sen, Director (Marketing), has taken over the additional charge of Director (Human Resources) with immediate effect. In a related development, he has also been appointed Chairman of Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) effective 1 April 2026, succeeding Shri Raj Kumar Dubey under the established rotational nomination process between promoter entities.
With over three decades of experience at BPCL, Sen brings deep expertise across key marketing verticals including Retail, LPG, Lubricants, Aviation, Industrial & Commercial, Gas, and Consumer Retailing. A graduate of the University of Calcutta and holder of a Post Graduate Diploma in Executive Management from S. P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, he has played a pivotal role in strengthening BPCL’s market presence and advancing its integrated energy transition strategy.
In his additional HR role, Sen will oversee the company’s human capital strategy, with emphasis on talent development, leadership building, organisational transformation, and building a future-ready workforce aligned with BPCL’s long-term growth and sustainability goals.
As the new Chairman of IGL, he is expected to bring a strong vision for sustainable growth and customer-centric excellence to the city gas distribution major.
BPCL, a Fortune Global 500 company and Maharatna PSU, is India’s second-largest oil marketing company with a combined refining capacity of 35.3 MMTPA across its refineries in Mumbai, Kochi and Bina. The company operates an extensive marketing network comprising over 23,500 fuel stations, more than 6,200 LPG distributorships, 500+ lube distributorships, 79 aviation service stations and 5 cross-country pipelines.
The energy major is aggressively pursuing its net-zero ambitions, targeting Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2040, and has already set up electric vehicle charging stations at over 6,500 fuel stations.
From fuelling millions of vehicles to fuelling talent and leadership within the organisation, Subhankar Sen now finds himself at the intersection of BPCL’s operational engine and its people power, a dual responsibility that could prove crucial as the company accelerates towards a more sustainable energy future.
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LinkedIn names Daniel Shapero CEO as Microsoft doubles down on AI shift
Ryan Roslansky moves to Microsoft AI role as LinkedIn bets on insider leadership
CALIFORNIA: Microsoft has appointed Daniel Shapero as the new chief executive of LinkedIn, marking a key leadership shift as the company sharpens its focus on artificial intelligence.
Shapero, a long-time insider who joined LinkedIn in 2008, steps up from his role as chief operating officer. He succeeds Ryan Roslansky, who will transition into a broader role within Microsoft to work on AI-led productivity initiatives, reporting to Satya Nadella.
The move signals more of a strategic reshuffle than a traditional leadership exit. Roslansky, who led LinkedIn for six years and oversaw a near doubling of its user base to 1.3 billion, will now help integrate AI capabilities across Microsoft’s core productivity ecosystem, including its Office suite.
For LinkedIn, the choice of Shapero reflects continuity. Often described as “employee 300-ish”, he has spent nearly two decades across the company’s key functions, from sales and marketing to product and operations. As chief operating officer since 2021, he has been closely involved in scaling the platform’s business, including growth in premium subscriptions and advertising.
In his first message as CEO, Shapero emphasised LinkedIn’s core mission of driving economic opportunity, noting that the rise of AI makes that mission even more critical. He signalled a leadership approach focused on listening and learning, while preparing professionals to navigate rapid technological change.
The timing is telling. LinkedIn currently sits at a strong inflection point, with annual revenue estimated at around $19 billion and continued double-digit growth driven by AI-powered tools and advertising solutions. Microsoft’s broader strategy appears to position LinkedIn and its productivity suite as twin pillars of the modern workplace.
With Roslansky shaping AI strategy at the parent level and Shapero steering LinkedIn’s next chapter, the transition sets the stage for a deeper integration of generative AI into how professionals connect, learn and work.
The Roslansky era was about scale. The Shapero chapter now begins with a different brief: make AI central to the future of work.
