Siti Sulaiman is the Country Chair of Shell Companies in Malaysia and Senior Vice President, Upstream Malaysia. As Country Chair, Siti provides strategic business direction to all Shell businesses in Malaysia. 

Siti originates from Sarawak, Malaysia and as a Shell scholar, graduated from Imperial College London with a first-class degree in Mechanical Engineering. She has been in the oil and gas industry since 1994, started her career as an Operation Engineer in Shell Malaysia upstream business and has since broadened herself in many different areas which include project management, upstream development planning, Human Resource, Business Planning, economics, strategy and commercial. 

She moved to Shell UK based in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2001 as a Development Planner & Economist supporting the exploration team in the UK North Sea and returned to Malaysia in 2004 to assume the role of Manager for the Economics and Planning group in Shell Malaysia Upstream. Subsequently, she was appointed as the Commercial and Strategy Manager and successfully led the team in completing and delivering many commercial projects and initiatives for Shell Malaysia upstream. 

 In 2011, she was appointed as the first female Malaysian Asset Manager and became the director of Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Limited, accountable for the upstream oil and gas operations in Sabah, Malaysia and responsible for managing a team of more than 350 people in various offshore and onshore locations. 

Siti moved to London to join Shell Trading & Supply in Sept 2015, assuming the role of General Manager Global Operations Commercial Services leading a global organization of 670 people and accountable for key activities ranging from Trading Contracts, Demurrage & Claims management, Product Quality advisory, road transport scheduling of oil product delivery, all the way to driving operational excellence activities across Shell Trading and Supply operational assets. 

In 2019 she was nominated by Shell UK for the external award Asian Women of Achievement (UK). She then moved to Integrated Gas business in 2020 to assume the role of Vice President Integrated Gas Ventures East accountable for a diverse portfolio of Shell Joint Ventures gas assets in 4 different countries in the East i.e. Brunei, Malaysia, China and India. She represented Shell as Director on the Board of Brunei LNG (Brunei), Shell MDS (Malaysia) and the ex-BG companies (India). 

Prior to her appointment as Country Chair and SVP Upstream Malaysia, Siti was the VP Technical Asset Operations, leading a large global technical community of approximately 1700 staff that serves as the delivery engine for technical operations support to many different businesses across the Shell portfolio and a key enabler for Shell’s Powering Progress strategy. 

Siti assumed the role of Country Chair Shell Malaysia and SVP Upstream Malaysia on January 1, 2023, and became the first woman to assume both roles in Malaysia. In March 2024, her role was expanded to include Integrated Gas for Shell Malaysia and she took on the additional portfolio of overseeing Shell Middle Distillate Synthesis (SMDS).