Board of Directors

Mr. Zaiviji Ismail an MBA graduate from Cranfield University, UK, joined Shell Malaysia in 1990. During his 20 years of service, Mr. Ismail has held various appointments in the business and has served in a number of countries.  In 2001 he was seconded to Shell Oman as General Manager Retail Business, and in 2004, to Shell Pakistan as General Manager Retail Business.

Effective September 2006, Mr. Ismail is the Chairman of Shell Companies in Pakistan and Managing Director Shell Pakistan Ltd. Mr. Ismail serves on the Board of four publicly listed energy companies, including one in Oman. He is a member of the Malaysian Alliance of Corporate Directors and also serves on the Board of a number of entities covering health, education and philanthropy.

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, as CEO 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.

Mr. Rafi H. Basheer, is a chartered accountant and a career finance professional. After completing his accountancy training in London, UK, Rafi worked for two years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dubai as Assistant Manager in Audit before joining Shell Pakistan in January 2000.  In Shell he has done a variety of roles locally and overseas ranging from Retail Finance Manager Shell Pakistan, Mergers and Acquisitions Finance for Shell Downstream Asia/Pacific, Global Governance Manager for the Downstream B2B business, and most recently as Finance Manager East for the Commercial Fuels business.

Rafi enjoys reading, traveling and playing golf but most of his free time is spent with his wife and three young children.

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. Nick Chong Is a Singaporean national. He completed his education from Monash, Melbourne in Australia with an Engineering degree and subsequently obtained an MBA through a distant learning programme while working for Shell.  Nick has served two and half years in the Army during his National service in Singapore and spent two years in Singapore’s Public Utility Board before joining Shell’s Pulau Bukom Refinery as an Engineer in 1984. 

Since then, he has taken up various Refinery roles in maintenance, major projects, technical advisory and change management. He has served two years as HR GM Singapore before moving on to a regional Engineering role and as General Manager Distribution for Middle East/Asia, a role in which he is responsible for Distribution activities in Pakistan, Oman, UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Philippines and the North Pacific Islands.

To stay fit, Nick enjoys going for jogs in the hills near his home but time constraints are always a perfect excuse for not meeting his commitment to keep fit. In his spare time he also enjoys reading Chinese history.

Mr. Zaffar A. Khan graduated as a mechanical engineer in 1967 from Peshawar University and soon thereafter joined Esso /Exxon Chemical which following an employee led buyout became Engro Chemical in Pakistan.  He retired from the Company in 2004 after serving for 35 years the last 6 were as President & CEO. During the early years of his career he served Exxon Chemical for 10 years in Hong Kong, Singapore and USA in the petrochemical business. His career with Exxon/Engro spanned all major corporate functions i.e. Marketing, Manufacturing, Finance & Corporate Services. 

He has done an Advanced Management Program from the University of Hawaii and has attended short courses at INSEAD and the Harvard Business School. Mr Zaffar Khan has served on a number of diverse boards both in the private and public sector. He has also chaired several of these boards. These aside from the various Engro boards include United Bank, Sui Southern Gas, Ufone, Pakistan Telecommunications Co (PTCL), Pakistan Steel, Karachi Stock Exchange, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Civil Aviation Authority & the Aga Khan Education Board.

He is currently serving on the Boards of State Bank of Pakistan, Unilever Pakistan, Acumen Fund Pakistan and the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy. He has also served as President of the Overseas Chamber of Commerce and Industry and on several Committees of the Government of Pakistan notably the Economic Advisory Board, Pay & Pension Committee, and the Committee that recommended the National Environment Quality Standards. The President of Pakistan conferred the Sitara e Imtiaz  (a civil award) on Mr. Khan.

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.

Michael Noll: VP Finance Business-2-Business In 1987, Michael started his career in Germany as deputy controller of a Shell Chemicals unit (agrochemicals).  After that, he held various jobs in EP, OP and Chemicals, serving in the Netherlands, UK, Singapore and Germany.

He has been involved in 2 rounds of Globalisation (Chemicals 1998 – 2000 and Downstream 2005 onwards) and was leading the Finance, IT and C&P organisation in Germany during the acquisition of the DEA business and the subsequent integration of the new business into Shell.  His preferred hobby still is to spend as much time as possible with the family.  He and his family love the mountains so skiing in winter and experiencing the beauty of the alps in summer are real family highlights.

Mr. Badaruddin F. Vellani is an Honours graduate in Chemical Engineering from the Loughborough University of Technology and is also a Barrister at Law from the Middle Temple (London).  Mr. Vellani was called to the Bar in July 1982 and commenced legal practice at Karachi immediately thereafter.  Mr. Vellani is enrolled as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and is entitled to appear before all courts and tribunals in Pakistan.

Mr. Vellani is a partner in the law firm of Vellani & Vellani. In addition to his legal practice, Mr. Vellani has been a member of the board of directors in several companies having foreign investment.  He is presently a member of the board of directors of Unilever Pakistan Foods Limited, Parke Davis & Co., Limited, Novartis Pharma (Pakistan) Limited and Esso Pakistan (Private) Limited.  He is also an Alternate Director on the Board of Roche Pakistan Limited and of Singer Pakistan Limited (where he is also Chairman of its Audit Committee).

Mr. Vellani is the Chairman of the National Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation, Pakistan and the Chairman of the National Committee of the Aga Khan University Foundation Pakistan, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy. 

Mr. Vellani is also a Council Member and one of the Governors of Hisaar Foundation (a not for profit foundation for water, food and livelihood security).  He is also a member of the National Committee in Pakistan of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and on the ICC Task Forces on IT & E-Commerce and on Enforcement of IP Rights and on Arbitration. Mr. Vellani was also a member of the Task Force on Tax Administration in Pakistan headed by Syed Shahid Husain, which was set-up in 2000 to reform the administration of the Central Board of Revenue.