Royal Dutch Shell plc has named Harry Brekelmans as projects and technology director, effective 1 October 2014.
Brekelmans is currently Shell’s executive vice president operated, upstream international. He joined Shell in 1990 and has held a variety of international management positions in geosciences, field development, operations, internal audit and strategy & planning. He has been executive vice president of Russia and Caspian region operations at Shell since September 2011, and served as the CEO of Salym Petroleum Development NV.
In his new role, he will become a member of the executive committee and will take over from Matthias Bichsel who will be leaving the company after 34 years’ distinguished service.
Brekelmans graduated from Delft Technical University, Netherlands in 1990 with a degree in Petroleum Engineering.