Fang Yea Yee

Fang Yea Yee was appointed General Manager, Ethylene oxide and glycols on October 1, 2010. Prior to this he was General Manager, Commercial Projects, responsible for leading a number of portfolio development and technology commercialisation projects. This included project development for Diphenyl Carbonate and for the Shell acquisition of JSEC’s 30% shareholding in Ethylene Glycols (Singapore) Private Ltd (EGS), making EGS a 100% subsidiary of Shell Eastern Petroleum Pte Ltd.

Between July 2006 and January 2010 he was General Manager for the Styrene Monomer/Propylene Oxide and Derivatives product line and concurrently General Manager for Commercial Excellence from October 2008.

He was General Manager of the Shell Eastern Petrochemical Complex project from August 2005 to June 2006 where he was responsible for developing the project to its final investment decision in June 2006. This project is delivering a world-scale cracker and mono-ethylene glycol plant in Singapore, which will be integrated with Shell's existing refinery assets on Pulau Bukom and petrochemical assets on Jurong Island.

Yea Yee joined Shell in 1990 taking on a variety of global, regional and local commercial roles in supply chain, logistics, commercial operations, marketing, business development and project development.

These assignments included commercial roles in marketing and business development for a number of major businesses in Shell Chemicals, such as Lower Olefins, Glycols, Aromatics and Solvents and also project development roles leading and driving the development of a condensate splitter unit in Pulau Bukom Refinery, submarine pipelines for petrochemical feedstocks linking Pulau Bukom and Jurong Island and the development of a Chemicals import terminal in Vietnam (as part of a market entry strategy).

He was appointed to his first global role in 2000 as Global Lead for Logistics (both land and marine logistics). He subsequently became General Manager for Supply Chain and Logistics from 2003 to 2005, when he was responsible for leading the globalisation of Shell Chemicals' supply chains and logistics.