Mr Russell Caplan

Russell Caplan was born in Melbourne in 1946 and graduated in Law from Melbourne University in 1968. He joined Shell in the same year.

Russell’s career of nearly 40 years with Shell has spanned many areas. From sales and marketing, strategic planning, and business development, to general management, and executive directorship, across the upstream, downstream, and corporate sectors of the business.

Russell has worked in Australia, the UK, Europe and the USA. He returned home to Melbourne in January 2006 to take up the position of Chairman of Shell in Australia. In March 2006 he was appointed to the Board of the Australian Institute of Petroleum.

In August 2007, Russell was appointed Chairman of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust, to the Board of Orica Limited as a non-executive Director in October 2007 and to the Board of the Global Foundation in September 2008.

Russell has been married since 1968 to Eva and they have two married sons, Adam 34 and Michael 32.