Pioneering, inclusive and focused Karrie Trauth on the ‘power of visibility’

Career and life have been a catalogue of firsts for Shell’s senior vice president of shipping and maritime, Karrie Trauth.

Growing up in Ohio in the Midwest of the US, Trauth was accepted to study at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology and embarked on a Navy scholarship programme. She stayed on to take a master’s so she could hit the year for the first class of female US Navy Officers to serve in combat vessels.