Rob Shaul is Senior Vice President, Regional Executive – Onshore Africa for McDermott. 

In this role, Rob provides strategic leadership and enterprise-wide coordination across the company's onshore interests in Africa with a focus on safe and successful project execution to meet project delivery objectives and customer commitments and leverage emerging onshore growth opportunities.

Rob previously led the company’s execution of low-carbon projects and served as the company’s Executive Project Director for the Mozambique LNG project, one of the most complex projects in McDermott’s portfolio. He brings more than 30 years of experience to his current role, having managed all aspects of onshore project execution, including engineering, construction and project delivery roles on major projects in areas such as gas-to-liquid, LNG, refineries, petrochemicals and high-speed railways. He joined CB&I, McDermott’s storage business line, in 2014.   

Prior to McDermott, Rob worked for Shell and Bechtel and started his career with Foster Wheeler in 1989. He has broad international experience, having worked in several countries including Indonesia, US, Netherlands, Qatar, Japan and Italy.  

Rob holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Portsmouth Polytechnic and a master’s degree in project management from Cranfield School of Management. He is also a graduate of the advanced leadership program at Rice University.