Lorraine Mitchelmore

Ms. Mitchelmore was recently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Enlighten Innovations Inc., a Calgary based clean technology company. Prior to that, she was President and Canada Country Chair of Shell Canada Limited and Executive Vice President, Americas Heavy Oil for Royal Dutch Shell. She has more than 30 years of international oil and gas industry experience. Throughout her career, she has served with increasing responsibility in operational, strategy, and commercial roles. Prior to joining Shell in 2002, she worked with BHP Petroleum, Chevron, and Petro-Canada.

Ms. Mitchelmore has served as a director of the Bank of Montreal, a diversified financial services provider, since May 2015 and Suncor Energy Inc., a premier integrated energy company, since November 2019, and on the Board of Advisors of Catalyst Canada since 2018. She previously served on the board of directors of TransMountain Corporation from November 2018 to December 2019.

Ms. Mitchelmore is currently an associate of the Creative Destruction Lab where she is a mentor to many early-stage energy transition companies. She is co-founder and co-chair of the Smart Prosperity Initiative, an organization focused on harnessing new thinking to accelerate Canada’s transition to a stronger, cleaner economy. From 2017 to 2018, she chaired the Resources of the Future Economic Strategy table for the Canadian federal government. She has been named a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, awarded the Catalyst Canada Champion Honors Award in 2014, recognizing commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, and was a recipient of Canada’s 2016 Clean16 award for leadership in advancing sustainable development in Canada.

Ms. Mitchelmore holds a BSc in Geophysics from Memorial University of Newfoundland, an MSc in Geophysics from the University of Melbourne, Australia and an MBA from Kingston Business School in London, England.