M&T SUMMIT

Hital Meswani (M&T ’90)

Hital Meswani is an Executive Director and Member of the Board of Reliance Industries ltd, a fortune 500 flagship company based in India.  The Reliance Group’s businesses include Synthetic fibers, Petrochemicals, Petroleum Refining and Marketing, Oil & Gas Exploration and Production, Retail and recently rolled out next-gen Digital Services.  He joined Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) in 1990.  He is on the Board of the company since 1995.  His overall responsibility spans the Petroleum Refining and Marketing Business and several other functions of the company, including Human Resources Management, Group Manufacturing, Research & Technology, and Capital Projects Execution.  He drives the implementation of several downstream petroleum and petrochemical projects at several locations.  He has also been instrumental in the execution of several mega projects of the group, including the Hazira Petrochemicals complex and the world’s largest refinery complex at Jamnagar.  He lead a company-wide business transformation initiative, which has resulted in the development of the constitution of RIL – the Reliance Management System.

Hital has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Institution of Chemical Engineers, the international professional body for Chemical, Biochemical and Process Engineers, in recognition of his contribution to the process industries.  He is recipient of the D. Robert Yarnall Award – 2011 from the Engineering Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania.  He was also conferred the honorary CEPM-PMA Fellowship Award for Project Management Excellence.  He is a member of the Finance committee, Stakeholders’ Relationship Committee, Risk Management Committee, and Chairman of the Health, Safety and Environment Committee of the company.  He is also a Director of Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Limited and Reliance Commercial Dealers Ltd.

Hital graduated from the M&T program in 1990 with a BSE in Chemical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School concentrating in finance.