Encouragement from inside and outside the company persuaded Mr Voser to abandon the idea of returning to Switzerland, which he had considered, and to put himself forward to replace Mr van der Veer.
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Business big shot: Peter Voser
Peter Voser’s appointment as chief executive of Shell suggests an effort has been made to draw a line under the murkiest episode in the company’s recent history.
Finance officer Peter Voser takes command at Royal Dutch Shell
The Anglo-Dutch group said that the appointment of Mr Voser came after a review of both internal and external candidates. He saw off two other Shell candidates: Linda Cook, the American head of Shell’s Gas and Power business, and Malcolm Brinded, the British head of exploration and production.
Shell Picks New CEO For Difficult Times
Voser was already one of the potential candidates back in 2007, when van der Veer announced his retirement, but there had been some hope that the head of North America, Linda Cook, would be announced as the company’s first female CEO.
Linda Cook, Shells director of gas and power… tipped as future chief executive
When you look at the number of women at entry level, the same numbers are not reflected at the top but we are seeing good progress. She cites Linda Cook, Shells director of gas and power, who is tipped as a future chief executive.
In Gas Deal, Shell Gains Iraq Presence
raqi Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani told reporters Monday the deal with Shell was worth “billions of dollars.” Shell declined to put a price on the investment, saying the agreement signed Monday merely set out the commercial principles of the joint venture, which will be 51% owned by Iraq’s state-run South Gas Company and 49% by Shell.
Shell makes move into Iraq
Linda Cook, Shell’s head of gas and power, was in Baghdad yesterday to sign a multi-billion dollar agreement to make commercial use of gas currently being flared off in southern Iraq.
Shell Sets Up First Iraq Office Since the 1970s
We are ready to establish a presence, the official, Linda Cook, executive director of the companys gas and power unit and a member of the board, said during a news conference in Baghdads heavily guarded Green Zone in response to a question
Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer has built up an annual pension entitlement of £828,923 a year
The only woman to enter the top 20 pensions list was Linda Cook, Shell’s gas and power boss and a frontrunner to take over the oil company as chief executive when Van der Veer retires.
Linda Zarda Cook the next CEO of Royal Dutch Shell?
Linda Zarda Cook, a Shawnee native who earned a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from KU in 1980, ranks 43rd. Now the executive director of gas and power for Royal Dutch Shell, Cook is in the running to become CEO of the company in 2009
More women stalled on corporate ladder
On Aug. 8 Lynn Elsenhans, who previously worked for Royal Dutch-Shell, will take over from John Drosdick as the CEO of Sunoco, an American oil-refining giant. Meanwhile Shells executive director of gas and power, Linda Cook, is said to be one of two internal candidates who could replace the companys CEO, Jeroen van der Veer, who is due to step down next year. Should she do so, she would become the first female CEO of a major oil producer.
Comments of former Shell Exec Paddy Briggs on Linda Cook
By Paddy Briggs There are many who believe that many of Shells problems in recent times has come from a growing Americanisation of this historically European company. My experience with senior Americans (Jim Morgan, Steve Miller, Lynn Elsenhans and others) was that they were usually likeable but wholly unsuited to the international character of Shell. [...]
Cook ahead in Shell’s two-horse race
In the minds of some outside the company, Mr Brinded’s image is still tarnished by memories of the aftermath of the reserves scandal in 2004.
Cook leads in Shells two-horse race
The withdrawal from the race of Peter Voser, the chief financial officer who has been in talks with UBS, where he is already a director and head of the audit committee, has left Ms Cook and Mr Brinded, the executive director of exploration and production, as the two contenders. Both have strengths, but both also have significant weaknesses.
Emissions scheme adds to LNG costs, Shell says
Ms Cook, who is based in The Hague, said Australia was an attractive place to develop LNG because of its large resource base and its proximity to large markets in Asia. Shell owns 34 per cent of Woodside and has stakes in several potential LNG projects in Australia including Gorgon, Wheatstone, Browse, Sunrise, Prelude and a Gladstone project.
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