Merijn Backx has more than 25 years of Shell experience delivering business outcomes that include engineering document management, finance analytics, sales and marketing insights, accounting efficiencies, procurement optimization, maintenance reliability, transforming & automating business processes and industry collaboration & ecosystems.
Merijn has an MSc in Computer Science from Delft University in the Netherlands. His business track record has been established through a wide variety of IT application development, architecture, project management, operations, strategy and business interface assignments in Shell in Rotterdam, London, Kuala Lumpur, Houston and The Hague
From 2019 until 2022 he worked as Enterprise IT Strategy & Planning VP as part of the IDT Executive leadership team where he was accountable for developing Shell’s IT Strategy and Operating Model.
Merijn is based in The Hague. From 2023 onwards he has been acting as the IDT General Manager for Safety, Environment, Asset Management & Technology (SEAT) Business IT. His application portfolio teams deliver global digital capabilities to Shell’s assets and technology labs. Examples are process information platforms, asset data platforms, digital twin deployment, mobile worker solutions, AI predictive maintenance, safety AI/ML solutions – and digital innovation enablement.