Cepsa has appointed Alice Acuña as new Executive Vice President of Trading, effective 1 December 2023. She will report to CEO, Maarten Wetselaar, and form part of the company's Management Committee.
Acuña joins Cepsa from Shell, where she was Senior Vice President of LNG Marketing and Trading. Based in Singapore, Acuña was responsible for building and optimizing Shell's global LNG trading and supply portfolio and developing new markets and sectors, delivering exceptional results and a clear strategy during one of the most volatile periods in the industry. She will now lead Cepsa's Trading division, which is fundamental to the execution of the Company’s Positive Motion strategy. The Trading team, comprising 220 professionals in Madrid and Singapore, manages the supply and marketing of products for Cepsa and the trading of raw materials and intermediate products for third parties.
Since joining Shell as a distribution analyst in Paraguay in 1996, Acuña has held various management positions, including roles in Spain (between 2006 and 2011), the Netherlands, the UK and Singapore, driving commercial integration and leading teams in transformation and digitalization processes. Her extensive global experience spans business areas including Trading, Supply, Strategy, Lubricants and Aviation. She has also represented Shell as a director in various subsidiaries.
With dual Paraguayan and Spanish nationality and the mother of two children, Acuña holds a postgraduate degree in Strategy and Innovation from SAID/Oxford Business School, a postgraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Cambridge and a degree in Business from the Catholic University of Paraguay.
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