KUCHING: Shell Malaysia has announced Siti Hurrairah Sulaiman, a Sarawakian, as the new Country Chair of Shell Malaysia, effective Jan 1, 2023.
Siti Hurrairah is the first woman in the country to be appointed to hold the position, and will be overseeing all Shell Malaysia businesses, in addition to her role as Senior Vice-President for the upstream business in the country.
She is succeeding Datuk Ivan Tan, who will be taking on the role of Executive Vice-President, Wells, for Shell Group; and be based in The Hague, Netherlands upon taking up this global role, the oil company said on Thursday (Dec 15).
Siti Hurrairah from Kuching started her journey with the oil company as a Shell scholar some 28 years ago.
She graduated from Imperial College in London with a first-class degree in Mechanical Engineering and began her career as an operations engineer in Shell Malaysia Upstream.
She subsequently took on various roles in Development, Planning, Commercial and Strategy in the United Kingdom and Malaysia.
In 2011, she was appointed as the first female Malaysian Asset Manager and Director of Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Limited, responsible for Shell’s upstream oil and gas operations in Sabah.
In 2015, Siti Hurrairah moved to London as GM Commercial Operations in Shell’s Trading and Supply business, where she was responsible for global commercial services for the Shell Group.
She was then appointed as Vice-President, Integrated Gas Ventures East, where she was responsible for a diverse portfolio of Shell Joint Ventures across different countries in the East, prior to assuming her current role as Vice-President Technical Asset Operations.
Siti Hurrairah is married to Feisol Sobeng and has three daughters, aged between 16 and 24.
