Syed Ammar Shah Chief Executive Officer

Syed Ammar Shah is the CEO of Engro Vopak and Elengy Terminals Limited, leading strategic initiatives across various sectors at Engro for over 16 years. He played a key role in establishing Pakistan’s first LNG terminal and managed 60% of the country’s chemicals, LPG, and LNG throughput as COO of Engro Elengy and Vopak Terminals.

Previously, Ammar led business development at Engro Fertilizers, launching innovative agricultural technologies and strategies and helped resolve issues pertaining to feed gas. With a background in Electrical Engineering, he is an expert in project development, contract management, and energy markets. Beyond his professional achievements, Ammar is passionate about talent development and has been actively involved in football for over 20 years. He also values his role as a devoted father to three children.

Chris Robblee Director

Chris Robblee is President of Asia & Middle Division, Vopak, effective February 2022. Mr Robblee is also a member of the Strategic Committee of Royal Vopak. Based in Singapore, Mr. Robblee brings with him over 12 years of experience in the tank storage business with Vopak. In his current role, he heads the Asia and Middle East region including countries Australia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Thailand, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

In 2020, Mr. Robblee became President for Vopak Americas Division. Prior to this, he held several management roles during his tenure with Vopak including the Managing Director for U.S. Southern Region, Managing Director for Gulf Coast Terminals, Regional Director for Business Development and General Manager for Canada.

Before joining Vopak, Mr. Robblee was with Air Liquide.

Mr. Robblee holds a Bachelor Degree in Commerce with Honours in Business Administration from University of Windsor, Canada.

Mr. Ahsan Zafar Syed Chairperson

Ahsan Zafar Syed is the CEO of Engro Energy Limited – one of the leading energy companies in Pakistan and a subsidiary of Engro Corporation. As the CEO he looks after various entities which include Engro Powergen Qadirpur Limited; Engro Powergen Thar Limited; Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company; Engro Energy Services Limited and Siddiqsons Energy Limited.

Ahsan is a graduate of NED where he studied Mechanical Engineering and then pursued his post-graduate degree in USA. As a proud alumnus of NED, Ahsan has close to three decades of managing and leading multi-billion dollar, mega-scale projects such as the fertilizer expansion project of Engro Fertilizers, setting up of Pakistan’s largest rice processing facility in Muridke and most recently establishing the CPEC-endorsed multi-billion dollar Thar power and mining projects – which have successfully unearthed Pakistan’s large coal reserves in Thar and produced electricity through Pakistan’s own fuel source. He joined the EPQL Board in 2019.

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