NZ Refining, owner of the Marsden Point Oil Refinery has a new chief executive. Sjoerd Post. Photo / Northern Advocate.
NZ Refining, owner of the Marsden Point Oil Refinery has a new chief executive. Sjoerd Post. Photo / Northern Advocate.
NZX-listed Refining NZ has appointed a long-serving Shell International executive, Sjoerd Post, to succeed Ken Rivers as the company's next chief executive.
Post is currently executive vice president downstream strategy for Shell, based in London, a position he has held for the last year after running Shell's global aviation fuelsand lubricants business for the previous five years.
Refining NZ said Post had held a wide variety of leadership, technical and strategic roles during 30 years with Shell.
Early in his career, Post worked for Shell New Zealand holding positions in information technology and telecommunications , sales and customer service, before moving to Europe.
The appointment was made after a broad international search and follows the announced departure of Rivers earlier this year.
Rivers will continue as chief executive until December, 2012. Refining NZ Project Director, Jack Ariel will be acting chief executive until Sjoerd Post takes up his position in January, 2013.
A Dutch national, Post is married with two children and has New Zealand permanent residency, Refining NZ - New Zealand's only oil refiner - said.
