Jessica Uhl
 Jessica Uhl     ( businesswoman, banker) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | January 29, 1968 Walnut Creek, California, USA | |||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | • University of California Berkeley • INSEAD | |||||||||||
| Spouse | Michael Payne | |||||||||||
| Member of | Shell/Leadership | |||||||||||
Attended the 2019 Bilderberg as Shell CFO. Enron, Goldman Sachs. Working on "decarbonisation".
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Jessica Rodgers Uhl is an American business executive who attended the Bilderberg for the first time in 2019 when she was Chief Financial Officer of Shell[1][2] As of 2025, she is the president of GE Vernova, an director of Goldman Sachs[3] She is Vice Chair at the Mission Possible Partnership from October 2022, "an alliance of climate leaders which focuses on supercharging efforts to decarbonise some of the world’s highest-emitting industries in the next 10 years".[4]
Education
Born in 1968 in Walnut Creek, California, Uhl was the youngest of five siblings. She obtained her bachelor's degree in political economy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and completed her MBA at INSEAD in 1997.[2][5] She is married to Michael Payne and has three children.[6]
Career
Uhl started her career in 1990 as a financial analyst at Citibank in San Francisco. Six years later, she left for France to pursue an MBA, after which she joined Enron working on development and acquisition of energy infrastructure projects.[2][7][8]
Uhl joined Shell in 2014,[9] later rising to CFO, in The Netherlands and in the UK.[9] In 2016,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] She was in the role for five years, stepping down when the company moved its headquarters to London in 2021.[9] Shell credits her as "a key architect of strategic changes, including the simplification of the company’s share structure and the relocation of the corporate HQ".[9]
In October 2019, she was ranked 24th on Fortune list of Most Powerful International Business Women,[16] and as 35th among "The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women" in 2021 by Forbes.[17][18]
Nominated in March 2021,[19] Uhl became a non-executive director of Goldman Sachs the following month.[20]
In 2021, she was named to The Global OUTstanding LGBT+ Role Model lists,[21] which showcases the 50 top LGBT+ business leaders in the world. On September 9, 2021, Institutional Investor magazine recognized her as the best CFO in her sector amongst European corporations.[22]
She was appointed a member of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (SIPA) Center on Global Energy Policy advisory board.[23]
Nominated in March, Uhl joined the board of General Electric in May 2023.[24] In March 2024, Uhl said she would not stand for re-election on the board of Goldman Sachs, in order to focus on her role as president of GE Vernova—an energy company that spun out of GE in April 2024.[25][26]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2019 | 30 May 2019 | 2 June 2019 | Switzerland Montreux | The 67th Bilderberg Meeting |
| WEF/Annual Meeting/2019 | 22 January 2019 | 25 January 2019 | Switzerland WEF | "The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one." |
References
- ↑ https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/R8PTa5y5xU0XbiePPmTtnTcP8Ls/appointments
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c https://fd.nl/profiel/1377251/mensen-vinden-het-moeilijk-te-geloven-dat-ik-de-cfo-van-shell-ben
- ↑ https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/jessica-uhl/
- ↑ https://energyalliance.org/powering-people-planet-2023/our-team/jessica-uhl/
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/20017404
- ↑ https://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/a-dutch-treat-at-whidbey-general/
- ↑ https://business.rice.edu/person/jessica-uhl
- ↑ https://www.shell.com/about-us/leadership/executive-committee/jessica-uhl.html
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d e https://www.standard.co.uk/business/shell-finance-chief-jessica-uhl-quits-oil-move-london-b985286.html
- ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/12/15/names-jessica-uhl-replace-simon-henry-finance-chief/
- ↑ http://www.shell.com/media/news-and-media-releases/2016/jessica-uhl-to-succeed-simon-henry-as-chief-financial-officer.html
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/shell-says-jessica-uhl-to-succeed-simon-henry-as-finance-chief
- ↑ https://www.energyvoice.com/oilandgas/126863/shell-names-jessica-uhl-cfo
- ↑ https://www.financialdirector.co.uk/2016/12/15/shell-appoints-jessica-uhl-as-cfo-simon-henrys-successor/
- ↑ http://www.upi.com/Jessica-Uhl-to-replace-Simon-Henry-as-Shell-CFO/2191481797365
- ↑ https://fortune.com/most-powerful-women-international/2019/
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/profile/jessica-uhl/?list=power-women&sh=645c756842ee
- ↑ https://fortune.com/most-powerful-women-international/2021/jessica-uhl/}
- ↑ https://www.goldmansachs.com/media-relations/press-releases/2021/jessica-uhl-gs-board-of-directors.html
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-goldman-sachs-moves-idUSKBN2BO6DZ
- ↑ https://outstanding.involverolemodels.org/poll/2021-top-50-ally-executives/
- ↑ https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/research/11295/Overall
- ↑ https://rmi.org/about/board-of-trustees/
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2023-03-14/ge-announces-two-new-members-for-board-of-directors
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/goldman-sachs-board-member-jessica-uhl-depart-2024-03-08/
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/shell-s-cfo-pick-leaves-most-analysts-asking-simply-who
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