LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell willreplace Simon Henry as chief financial officer on March 9, 2017with Jessica Uhl, a financial executive in Shell's gas business,the company said on Thursday.
Henry will remain available to the company until June 30,2017, Shell said. It gave no reason for his departure.
"Jessica combines an external perspective with broad Shellexperience and is a highly regarded executive," Shell ChiefExecutive Ben van Beurden said.
Uhl joined Shell in 2004 and was previously employed atEnron and Citibank in the U.S. and Panama. (Reporting by Karolin Schaps; editing by Susan Thomas)