Kaustubh Verma

Managing Director & Partner
Boston Consulting Group

Kaustubh is a Managing Director and Partner in BCG’s Gurgaon office. Kaustubh is a core member of the Energy Practice Area and has worked with the Government, Public and Private enterprises on Oil, Gas, Power companies to help them deliver strategic ambitions through large scale, complex transformational programs. Kaustubh has worked across all the 5 continents.

Selected relevant BCG case experience includes

Upstream

  • Business Plan Development and Execution for India’s largest Pvt. Upstream Company
  • Program Management for one of India’s largest deep-water program with capex ~ $ 5 B
  • Capex Outsourcing for upstream E&P player with development projects worth $ 2.5 Bn
  • Organization Redesign and Sizing for mid sized E&P Player
  • Portfolio Strategy for mid sized E&P Player
  • Procurement strategy for one of the world’s largest oil field services companies with a spend worth $ 8 Bn.
  • Lump sum turnkey project management an integrated gas processing facility with spend of $ 30 Million

Power

  • Growth strategy incl. understanding new areas of lending in power, cost of funds reduction and underwriting with a power focused NBFC
  • Power Markets transformation for India’s Power Ministry with a focus on Renewable Integration

Downstream

  • Net Zero and decarb. Strategy for a large Indian downstream player
  • Downstream monetization strategy for an upstream Oil and Gas Major exploring refining & petchem
  • Turnaround Strategy for a mid sized petrochemicals player in the Aromatics Value Chain
  • Non-fuel strategy and business build for a F500 Oil Retail company
  • Portfolio Diversification strategy for an India’s most prominent CGD player
  • Operations Excellence for India’s largest hydrocarbon plant and pipelines construction company

Education

  • MBA – Indian School of Business
  • BE (Instrumentation and Controls) – Visvesvaraya Technological University