Board of Directors

Mr. Asif S. Sindhu is a fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, with around 20 years of diversified financial experience. He was associated with A. F. Ferguson & Co. Chartered Accountants (Price Waterhouse Coopers) Karachi, from 1986 to 1991 as an Audit supervisor. He then joined ANZ Grindlays bank in 1992 where he held various senior positions in Pakistan, Dubai and Melbourne, Australia. From 1997 to 2001 he held the position of CFO with ANZ Grindlays Bank (Now Standard Chartered).  Mr. Sindhu joined Shell Pakistan limited (SPL) in 2001 as planning manager and later he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer for the $480 million SPL joint venture, Pak Arab Pipeline Company Limited. Returned to SPL as Country Controller in 2005 and is currently working as Finance Director (CFO). He is responsible for the overall Finance, Accounting, Treasury and Governance & Control Activities of the Company and also has financial oversight responsibility for the other Shell businesses in Pakistan. Mr. Sindhu is also a director on the Boards of Pakistan Refinery Limited and Pak Arab Pipeline Company Limited.

Mr. Farrokh K. Captain received both his Bachelors and Master degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was a member of the class of 1966. He then worked as a Management Consultant with Arthur D. Little First in the USA in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and then went on to establish their practice in Pakistan. From 1978-1994 he lead a major US-Pakistan joint venture  chemical manufacturing business in Pakistan. Captain-PQ Chemical Industries  ( Private ) Limited. He is also a member of the Board of the American Business Council.

At the age of 50, Mr. Captain stepped back from active business, turning this over to professional management. He has spent the years since exclusively in the field of social work. He is a Trustee of the Layton Rehmatulla Benevolent Trust. A much renowned chain of 10 Hospitals for curable blindness spread throughout Pakistan, which treats 1 million patients a year Free of Charge and to date have  treated 10 million patients. In 2002 he was invited to join President Musharraf,s Human Development initiative in Pakistan as Chairman of the Pakistan Human Development Fund.He is also one of the 25 founder members of the Pakistan Human Development Fund each of whom has contributed $ 100,000 to this initiative.He is also a leader in the still underdeveloped share-holder activism movement in Pakistan. In this capacity he has contributed significantly to the enhancement of minority shareholder rights reflected by both changes in the laws and corporate practice in Pakistan. He has completed 18 Years service and is presently serving his seventh three year term as a Director of Shell Pakistan Limited, representing the interests of the minority shareholders of Shell Pakistan Limited.He has served for 29 years as MIT,s Alumni representative for Pakistan and is President of the MIT Club of Pakistan.

Mr. Imran R. Ibrahim is a graduate from Government College, Lahore, and pursued post graduate studies at the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi. He is an entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in diverse areas of business.

Mr. Leon Menezes, Is an MBA from University of Hull, UK has a combination of work experiences in Human Resources, Marketing & Sales, and Customer Services, and exposure to the senior most levels of company operations provides a strategic perspective in assessing and maximizing business opportunities. Leon joined Pan American Airways in 1974 and was associated with American Express Travel Related Services (TRS) on various appointments including Territory Sales, Human Resources, and Travel and financial services. He then joined IUCN – The world conservation union as manager human resources in January 1999 and was associated with them for a year before joining Deutsche Bank AG as Head of Human Resources. Leon joined Shell Pakistan Limited in April 2001 and since then he is serving as General Manager Human Resources – Pakistan.

Mr. Saw Choo Boon is currently the Vice President, Business to Business Special Projects and the Acting Chief Executive, Shell Marine Products Ltd.  He was the Vice-President of Commercial for Shell Oil Products in the East Zone (SOPE) and was acting President till Dec 2004.    He joined Shell Refining Company (FOM) Bhd as a Refinery Technologist in 1970 and served for 17 years in the various capacities.  In 1996, he was appointed Managing Director of Shell MDS (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and in 1998 assumed the position of Managing Director of Oil Products for Shell Malaysia.  He was subsequently appointed the Vice-President of Commercial ASEAN+ for SOPE  in 1999. Choo Boon is a Malaysian Chinese.  He is married and has two daughters.  When he has the time, he enjoys playing golf..

Ms. Shahnaz Wazir Ali’s career spans 35 years of experience in policy and practice in the education sector in government and the private sector. Currently she is the Executive Director of the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy (PCP), in Islamabad, Pakistan. She has recently been elected to UNESCO Executive Board member for a 4 years term (2007 to 2011). She has also been elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 2008 Elections and is a MNA. From 1997-2001, she served as the Senior Education Specialist at the World Bank in Islamabad. Her principal assignment was to provide policy, program and technical advice and assistance to the Federal and the 4 Provincial governments to facilitate the implementation of the countrywide Education Sector Social Action Program (SAP). The establishment of the Prime Minister’s Literacy Commission, the National and Provincial Education Foundations, the National Education Assessment System and priority actions on EFA are also among her major contributions in the Education Sector. Her career in and commitment to education can be traced back to 1965, when she commenced teaching primary school children of deprived communities in Karachi, and subsequently spent about 20 years in teaching and administrative positions in the private sector, which included being Principal at the Lahore American School.

Mr. Yousuf Ali completed his MBA degree from LUMS, with majors in marketing and finance in the year 1991. Immediately afterwards, joined his family business, Dynasty Textile and Dyeing as CEO and served till April 1996. He then joined Pakistan Tobacco Company Ltd. as an internal auditor in August 1996 and served as Treasury Manager, Area Manager - Multan, Regional Marketing Manager and Marketing Training Manager till May 2002 when he left for Dubai to join Henkel Detergents Saudi Arabia as Regional Manager for UAE and Oman before joining Shell Pakistan Ltd. in August 2003 as National Sales Manager Highstreet - Lubricants and Agri Fuels. Yousuf was then promoted as General Manager Lubricants, Shell Pakistan Ltd. in November 2004. Since then, he has achieved a lot in lubricants and commercial field including development of Agri fuels distributor model, development of a national distributor network for Shell lubricants and development of Shell Pakistan Ltd.'s Lubricants vision for 2006 – 2010 besides growing the business and market share.