Mr. Subramanian Sarma is the full-time Director (Energy) at Larsen & Toubro Limited. He is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) of L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro. He obtained his M.Tech. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1981.nnMr. Sarma started his career as a process engineer and assumed the role of ‘Shift-in-Charge’ for operations of a large petrochemical plant at Patalganga (in Raigarh, Maharashtra) at the young age of 26. Thereafter, while working for a renowned international design and consultancy firm, he grew from the rank of Senior Process Engineer to be the Deputy Chief of Process Engineering Department in less than three years. He became the first Asian to be put on par with Western nationals in terms of designations and remunerations at yet another EPC firm.nn nn