Lori Fremin is the President and General Manager for HC Manvel, Inc and Haltermann Carless. In her current role, she is accountable for delivering strategic value and manufacturing results in the US. She is also the Chairman Emeritus for the Board of Directors of the Energy Education Foundation. This is a nonprofit that promotes energy awareness, provides energy-based STEM education to schools, teachers, and students across the US, recognizes “Hall of Fame” technology and seeks out to honor the pioneers of the energy industry.

Prior to her current roles, she was the General Manager of Disruptive Thinking for Global Deep Water (DW). Her remit was to research to understand how DW, Shell, will thrive through the energy transition. In her previous role, Ms. Fremin was the General Manager of Surface Engineering in the Gulf of Mexico. She was responsible for safely and sustainably delivering the surface technical and operational engineering needs for all of Shell’s DW Gulf of Mexico Assets.

Throughout her over 29 years in Shell, she has held technical, commercial, and operational leadership roles, worked short-term assignments in Aberdeen, Rijswijk, Perth, and a long-term one in Calgary, and held roles that covered Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Nigeria, and Malaysia. She worked in the DW, shale gas and unconventional oil businesses for over 25 years after spending her first 4+ years in Shell Chemicals. She is married and proud of their two engineering college students and their oldest, who is now working as an engineer.