Goh Swee Chen has been Chairperson of Shell Companies in Singapore since October 2014.
Concurrent to her country chair role, Swee Chen is also Vice President, Lubricants (Asia Pacific), a role she undertook in 2009.
Swee Chen joined Shell in 2003 as Chief Information Officer for the East. From 2004 to 2008, she was the Vice President, IT Infrastructure and Services for Shell International, where she led an organization of more than 4,000 staff in 64 countries across the world. In this role she successfully concluded a multi-billion dollar IT Infrastructure outsourcing contract. This initiative was the first outsourcing deal of this scale in the oil and gas industry and a game-changer for the sector in terms of commercial structure and innovation.
Before coming into Shell, Swee Chen worked for a number of Fortune 40 corporations including IBM Australia as a Systems Engineer and 14 years with Procter & Gamble in various assignments in IT and Real Estate.
Swee Chen holds a degree in Information Science from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and an MBA from the Chicago Booth, University of Chicago.
She is a Singaporean and is married with three children aged 20, 18 and 16.