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Mr. S.N Sunkari, Founder & CEO

Mr. Sunkari is an astute Business leader with 29+ years of professional experience in Power sector value chain viz. Generation, Transmission and HVDC system and having expertise in the areas of Business Development, Project Management, Contracts & Commercial management, Regulatory, Construction management and Operation & Maintenance of Transmission lines & Substations up to 765kV.

He has done M.Tech in Power Systems Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Warangal and a Certified System Administrator for Sun Solaris 7 (Sun Microsystems, USA).

With a career spanning almost three decades, Mr. Sunkari started his professional journey as a Graduate Engineer Trainee with Neyveli Lignite Corporation in the year 1989 and served as Assistant Engineer before moving on to his next career assignment.

Over the years, he has fulfilled diversified responsibilities and served with reputed Organizations such as Managing Director of North East Transmission Company Limited (NETC Ltd.), Sterlite Power Grid Ventures, L&T Infrastructure Development Projects, GMR Energy, RPG Group and Power Grid Corporation of India Limited.

Prior to founding Brine Energy, Mr. Sunkari was working as President & CEO of Transmission, Solar & Hydro businesses at Essel Infraprojects Limited.




Mr. P. K. Uppal, Director-Business Development


Mr. P. K Uppal is a 'Mechanical Graduate Engineer' from Delhi College of Engineering and MBA in ‘Marketing’ from Delhi University. He has also undergone Advance Management Training Programme at IIM, Calcutta and HEC Paris.
Mr. Uppal has a rich repertoire of a diverse and versatile professional experience of 40 years, working in various capacities first in domestic market followed by International Division of BHEL, having presence in more than 85 countries around the globe.
During his tenure as Head of 'International Division', of BHEL, Mr. Uppal was key contributor to a multi-fold growth in overseas business by securing and executing prestigious power projects from several countries including Sudan, Senegal, Bhutan, Rwanda, DR Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Syria, Yemen, Belarus, Vietnam, Bangladesh etc. BHEL created a maiden overseas reference for 500 MW power-plant from Sudan, leveraging crude import by Govt. of India as energy security.

Mr. Uppal was a catalyst for national level policy changes for growth in Projects Exports besides being a member of Energy Security Task Force under Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He played a key role as an interventionist for RBI policy changes in Project Export Manual and was instrumental for policy level initiatives particularly on empowerment of EXIM and ECGC for enablement of competitive credits.

As Head Marketing, in domestic market, Mr. Uppal was responsible for order inflow enhancement by 10 times in a span of 5 years, besides having a privilege of introduction of ‘F’ class technology Gas Turbines in the country.

Mr. Uppal is presently with Angelique International as its Chief Executive, with major operations in overseas market covering more than 45 countries with a total turnover of 250 Million USD. Main areas of operations of Angelique International are Power (Generation, Transmission & Distribution), Water (Sewage Treatment, Water Distribution, Irrigation), Industrial Buildings, IT Park etc.

Mr. Uppal is also associated with Dipon Infra / Bangladesh, ENCOTEC and some other cos. needing his advise in overseas operations.