For those who are unaware, Reliance Industries currently has the largest oil refinery in the world in Jamnagar, Gujrat. It processes around 1.24 million barrels of oil per day. Although most know India's richest man Mukesh Ambani as the owner of the Jamnagar refinery, not many know about the brain behind the world's largest oil refinery. The person we are talking about is the highest paid employee of Reliance. His name is Hital Meswani. If reports are to be believed, his annual salary is well over Rs 250000000.

Who is Hital Meswani?

Hital Meswani started at Reliance Industries in 1990 and has been on the board since 1995. He studied Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in the US. He got a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at UPenn, and another Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton Business School.

Hital Meswani is the brain responsible for successfully carrying out several huge projects for Reliance. These include the Hazira petrochemicals and the Jamnagar refinery sites. He also spearheaded a business change initiative across the whole company, which led to the creation of the RIL constitution, known as the Reliance Management System.

Hital Meswani's father, Rasiklal Meswani, was one of the company's original Founder Directors. When Mukesh Ambani started out in his father Dhirubhai Ambani's business, Rasikbhai Meswani mentored him. Rasikbhai, who was Dhirubhai Ambani's nephew and one of the first directors at Reliance, was given the job of guiding Mukesh. Mukesh once remembered in an interview how Dhirubhai made Rasikbhai, who was managing the growing polyester division at the time, his first supervisor.