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Russell Caplan

Russell Caplan
Company Director

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 with Shell has spanned many geographies and many disciplines.   He has worked in Australia, the UK, Europe and the USA.

His responsibilities have included sales and marketing, strategic planning, business development, general management and executive directorship, across the upstream, downstream, and corporate sectors of the business.

Russell returned home to Melbourne in January 2006 to take up the position of Chairman of Shell in Australia, from which he retired in 2010, after 42 years with Shell In addition to his role on the board of CEDA, Russell is a non-executive director of Orica Limited and of QR National Limited.

He is Chairman of the Melbourne and Olympic Parks Trust and Chairman of the CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment. He also sits on the board of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation.

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