Women in Leadership Program Advisor

Mallika Mukundan

Active Term: 04/2025 - 04/2026

Areas of Expertise

Commercial Manager, Hydrogen

Chevron New Energies

Mallika Mukundan began her career over fifteen years ago as a fuels research engineer. Over the course of her career, she has grown into positions of increasing responsibility in technical/analytical, strategic, and commercial capacity within Chevron. She has broad experience in fuels, applying corporate finance principles and performance benchmarking to oil/gas extraction projects. More recently, her roles have taken on challenges and opportunities in Chevron’s lower carbon and energy transition journey first in the corporate strategy and sustainability group building out Chevron’s carbon management program, then as a key advisor supporting the Chevron Shipping Company managing IMO carbon compliance.

Currently Mallika is the commercial manager supporting the Chevron New Energies business in building a lower carbon business in hydrogen. Mallika received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Maharaja Sayaji Rao University (India) and her master’s degree, also in Mechanical Engineering, from Texas A&M University. She has a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to Chevron, she has brief experience as performance engineer with the Cummins Engine Company. In her free time, Mallika likes to explore bay area hikes with her kids and dog.