Paul Kieft

My commercial and operational expertise spans the full energy‑transition landscape — from traditional energy assets to next‑generation hydrogen and renewables — built at world‑class companies including Shell and RWE.

I work where multilateral stakeholders, political dynamics and commercial realities meet, where a plan moves off the paper into the real world — moving complex industrial projects forward through adaptive, strategic negotiation rather than transactional dealmaking.

Across my career, I’ve delivered results in projects that initially seemed impossible. From the industrial reuse of offshore platforms — reducing emissions and extending asset life — to reallocating Shell’s large industrial upstream portfolio in the Netherlands, laying the groundwork for today’s activities in energy storage, CCS and hydrogen. And from there to originating a new French‑German green‑hydrogen axis through the Total–RWE joint venture, which evolved into an executable and significant hydrogen portfolio for both companies and the start of a flourishing cross‑border partnership.

Each of these efforts required strategic navigation, political‑commercial negotiation and the ability to turn unlikely ideas into real, bankable outcomes — and ultimately into healthy business that advances the broader energy transition.