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Bernardus Cornelis Adriana Margriet "Ben" van Beurden is the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell plc. Van Beurden joined Shell in 1983, after graduating with a master's degree in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

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Henri Wilhelm August Deterding was one of the first executives of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and was its general manager for 36 years, from 1900 to 1936, and was also chairman of the combined Royal Dutch/Shell oil company. He succeeded the founder of Royal Dutch, Jean Baptiste August Kessler, when he died, and made Royal Dutch Shell a competitor to John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil and one of the world's largest petroleum companies.

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Barthold Theodoor Willem van Hasselt was a Dutch business executive in the Dutch East Indies and the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell from 1949 to 1951.

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Jean Baptiste August Kessler was a Dutch entrepreneur and oil explorer who was largely responsible for the growth and development of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., now known as Royal Dutch Shell.

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Jonkheer John Hugo Loudon KBE was the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from 1952 to 1965 and the president of World Wide Fund for Nature.

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Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG is a British businessman, He was appointed non-executive chairman of Anglo American PLC in 2001, serving until 2009. He has been chairman of Hermes Equity Ownership Services since 2009.

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Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted,, known as Sir Marcus Samuel between 1898 and 1921 and subsequently as The Lord Bearsted until 1925, was a Lord Mayor of London and the founder of the Shell Transport and Trading Company, which was later restructured including a Holland-based company commonly referred to as Royal Dutch Shell.

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Jeroen van der Veer is a Dutch businessman. He is the chairman of Philips, and a former chief executive officer (CEO) of Royal Dutch Shell.

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Peter Robert Voser is a businessman, who is currently the Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer of the Swedish-Swiss company ABB. He served as the CEO of the Anglo-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009 to December 2013. He started his career at Royal Dutch Shell in 1982, working in a number of finance and business roles in different countries. Between 2002 and 2005 he served as chief financial officer for ABB and the Royal Dutch Shell. In 2004, he was appointed Shell's chief financial officer (CFO) and then CEO in July 2009.

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Lodewijk Christiaan van Wachem was a Dutch businessman. Born in the birthplace of Royal Dutch Shell, he was appointed a managing director of Royal Dutch Petroleum in 1977. He was the President of Royal Dutch Shell from 1982 until 1992.