She will succeed Nitin Prasad who has been heading Shell in India since 2016. Mansi joined Shell in 2012 from Procter & Gamble and has held multiple assignments at the energy major.
Currently, she is based in Singapore as vice president of Shell Lubricants for Asia Pacific, a role she will not relinquish when she returns to New Delhi in October to head the Indian operation.
Before moving to Singapore, Tripathy served as the managing director of Shell Lubricants India.
Tripathy is an engineering graduate from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra and has an MBA in Marketing from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research.
Shell has 11,000 employees in India spread across its fuel retail, natural gas, lubricant, and technology businesses. It operates a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal in Gujarat.