Nitin Prasad to head Shell India after Yasmine retires in Sept

Shell India announced the appointment of Nitin Prasad as its new chairman after the incumbent Yasmine Hilton retires in September.

Nitin Prasad is currently the cluster general manager for lubricants sales and marketing for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. He will take charge from October 1, the company said in a statement.

Hilton, who has been the chairman of Shell Companies in India and vice present for IT project excellence at the parent Royal Dutch Shell, will end her assignment on September 30, 2016, after a career spanning 37 years with Shell, the statement added.

Hilton began her career with Shell in 1979 in IT and went on to hold a number of senior posts in the group including, chief information officer for Britain and for Shell's global retail business, operating in all five continents.

In October 2012 she took up a four-year assignment as country chairman, the first woman leader in the Indian oil and gas industry.