Shell’s outgoing chief financial officer Simon Henry will join miner Rio Tinto in July.
Mr Henry, who was a driving force behind Shell’s takeover of BG Group, will hand over the CFO duties to Jessica Uhl at the start of March and will leave Shell on June 30.
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He will become a non-executive director at Rio Tinto on July 1.
“Royal Dutch Shell confirms that Simon Henry, Chief Financial Officer of the company, has been appointed a non-executive director of Rio Tinto with effect from July 1, 2017,” Shell said in a statement cited by Reuters on Friday.