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Hascol appoints CEO & director

Alan Duncan has joined the Board of the Directors of the Company as nominee Director of Vitol Dubai Limited. Alan is a former UK government minister. After studying at Oxford and Harvard, he worked first for Shell and then spent 10 years as an oil trader with Marc Rich now Glencore-. From 1992-2020 he was a member of the Parliament of UK, and was an International Development Minister 2010-14, and Foreign Minister 2016-19. Earlier, the Board of Directors had appointed Waheed Ahmed Shaikh as CEO of the Company on 4th March 2020. Shaikh was previously Chief Operating Officer of Al-Dabbagh Group and played a pivotal role in the acquisition of the Petromin Corporation, Al-Dabbagh Group's wholly-owned entity. Prior to joining Al-Dabbagh Group, he spent 12 years working in Shell Pakistan Limited. Shaikh holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Hawaii in the US and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology in Pakistan.
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