Matthew Kimball

Vice President, Global Commercial, Human Resources, Shell

Matthew  Kimball, is an Australian National, studied Economics at the University of Canberra in Australia. Following graduation, he joined Accenture as a Management Consultant based out of the Sydney Office. He specialised  in Human Performance and Change Management, leading  the  change programs for major cultural, process and systems reengineering initiatives as well as mergers and acquisitions. He worked with top tier businesses across Australia and the U.S in Financial Services, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Energy and Oil & Gas sectors.

Whilst  working  for  Accenture,  Matthew  received  an  academic  scholarship  to  complete  his  MBA  from  the Australian National University. He was Class President for his graduating year.

In  2002, Matthew  joined  Merck  &  Co.  Inc  (MSD) one of the world’s leading health solution providers  of prescription  medicines,  vaccines,  biologics  therapies,  animal  health,  and  consumer  health  care  products. Matthew  joined  Merck  in  Sydney  and enjoyed  a  successful  career holding large regional  &  global HR Executive Director roles  in Australia, U.S, Singapore  and  the  Netherlands.    He  provided  HR  leadership  for start-up  operations,  divestitures  and  mergers  as  well  as  leading  the  Merck  global  HR  Transformation program.

Matthew joined Shell Chemicals in February of 2014 as the Vice President of Human Resources and was based in London. Shell Chemicals is a global business with world-scale manufacturing facilities located around the world. Shell Chemicals ranks among the world’s top chemicals suppliers.

Matt  is currently the HR Vice President for Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Commercial businesses serving one million business customers. The Global Commercial businesses –Lubricants, Aviation, Bitumen and Sulphur -are market leaders in their sectors. The business serves more than 150 markets and operates 42 plants, 3 shared business service centres, 4 technology centres and digital incubators.

He is an INSEAD certified International Director and is currently completing a graduate Diploma in Digital through IMD.  He sits on the Advisory Board of the U.S start-up company, LeaderAmp, is a Non-Executive Director of Brunei Shell Marketing and a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute.

Matthew  lives  in Singapore,  is  married with 2 daughters. He is a passionate follower of Australian Rules Football and enjoys playing tennis, running and activities with his daughters.