Leadership Team

Shaker Vayuvegula
Managing Director

Shaker Vayuvegula
Managing Director
Shaker has over 27 years of experience in diverse businesses and is a cost accountant. He is well-traveled and currently heads and owns the VCS group that has a combined employee strength of over 475 professionals. The group primarily renders services to the hydrocarbon industry in India and overseas. Shaker has been on the board of other companies and has been instrumental in the success of several start-up companies in diverse segments such as education, manufacturing, construction etc. Shaker is also the Founder Director of the EnerGlobe Training Academy and also provides strategic direction and leads a foundation for social causes.

N Bose Babu
Director

N Bose Babu
Director
Bose Babu has over 29 years of experience in management, business strategy and Cross-country pipeline projects. He has formulated strategies and established strategic and technical goals across Quality Management, Safety, Engineering, Construction of Oil & Gas Pipelines, and Operations & Maintenance activities. He has also been instrumental in the formulation of technical and safety standards, and specifications in activities related to petroleum, petroleum products and natural gas sector.
Bose Babu has actively participated in the Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). He has been the Chair for ASME, B31.8 “International Working Group, India from 2009 to 2018 and a Life Member of QCI, ISQ, ISTD and a member of ASME since 2009. Bose Babu has been the Governing Council member of GIRDA), a Govt of Gujarat undertaking. Bose Babu is also the Founder member of ASME India Technical Chapter and the Executive Committee member of ASME Pipeline System Division(PSD) Houston, since 2019.
Mr Bose Babu has recently been invited to be the Co-Chair FICCI Committee on Disaster Management for 2022. He has also been appointed as an Executive Committee Member of AMPP India Chapter (Formerly NACE International India Section) for the year 2022-2023.
Bose Babu has actively participated in the Petroleum & Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB). He has been the Chair for ASME, B31.8 “International Working Group, India from 2009 to 2018 and a Life Member of QCI, ISQ, ISTD and a member of ASME since 2009. Bose Babu has been the Governing Council member of GIRDA), a Govt of Gujarat undertaking. Bose Babu is also the Founder member of ASME India Technical Chapter and the Executive Committee member of ASME Pipeline System Division(PSD) Houston, since 2019.
Mr Bose Babu has recently been invited to be the Co-Chair FICCI Committee on Disaster Management for 2022. He has also been appointed as an Executive Committee Member of AMPP India Chapter (Formerly NACE International India Section) for the year 2022-2023.

Tanmay Vayuvegula
Director

Tanmay Vayuvegula
Director
Tanmay is a budding professional pursuing his Bachelor's degree in Economics, Commerce, and Finance from the London School of Economics. An avid golfer, Tanmay has participated in several championships. Tanmay brings in fresh perspective given his strong commercial and business acumen. He believes in the empowerment of underprivileged women and children, and is the Director of the Visraya Foundation that follows a spiritual, philanthropic, and environmental conservation agenda.

G V Walimbe
President-Operations

G V Walimbe
President-Operations
Mr. G V Walimbe is a Chemical Engineer from NIT Raipur ‘84. He has over 33 years of rich experience in the Oil and Gas domain, most of which has been with MECON.
As Executive Director of MECON, Mr. Walimbe oversaw the development of the company’s Oil & Gas SBU in providing value-added EPMC services. Under his leadership, MECON is currently providing services for approximately 6,500+ km of pipeline projects worth approximately 30000+ crores.
He has extensive experience in handling multidisciplinary teams, and has held various roles and positions across business management, infrastructure development, project feasibility, engineering, project execution, construction management, Owner’s engineer, contract management, construction management, etc.
Some of his achievements include executing the Jagdishpur-Haldia-Bokaro-Dhamra pipeline project, Gujarat and Cauvery replacement project, Karanpur-Moradabad pipeline project, Kochi-Kootanad-Bangalore-Mangalore pipeline project (Ph I & II), Ludhiana-Jalandhar pipeline project, Bawan Nangal pipeline project etc.
He resides in Delhi and steers VCS as the President-Operations, working from our Noida office.

Dilip Kumar Banerjee
Business Head - Construction Management

Dilip Kumar Banerjee
Business Head - Construction Management
Mr. Banerjee has over 38 years of experience and heads VCS’ Construction Management business division.
As the former Executive Director for Western Region Pipelines, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL.), he contributed to cross-country pipeline operations and maintenance, including oil storage tank farm operations. A major part of his experience lies in design, engineering, construction, and commissioning cross-country Oil & Gas pipelines with a few years in offshore crude unloading terminal (SPM system), construction supervision, operation, and maintenance.
Mr. Banerjee has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (Hons) from NIT Durgapur, India, and an MBA from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a Chartered Engineer member of the Institute of Engineers.

Hashim Khan
Head-CGD

Hashim Khan
Head-CGD
Mr. Hashim Khan is a Mechanical engineer with more than 17+ years of experience in the areas of Engineering, PMC, Construction Management, supervision, execution, and commissioning of Oil and Gas Projects. He has sound knowledge of Pipelines construction, In-service Inspections, reliability studies, Audits as per PNGRB regulations and has handled engineering, inspection, factory, and site acceptance testing/certification/sign-off of complex mechanical projects.
• Mr. Khan currently heads VCS’s Engineering Business Unit. He has been instrumental in mentoring, coaching, and training several Inspection Engineers. His knowledge of the industry and hands on experience has also established him as a trainer in Radiographic Testing, Magnetic Particle Testing, Liquid Penetrant Testing, and Ultrasonic Testing. Mr. Khan has also trained in ASME Section VIII Div-1.