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Directors, senior management and employees
Directors and senior management
The following lists the company’s directors and senior management as at 20 February 2007.
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Name Initially elected or appointed
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P D Sutherland Non-Executive Chairman Chairman since May 1997
Director since July 1995
Sir Ian Prosser Non-Executive Deputy Chairman Deputy chairman since February 1999
Director since May 1997
TheLordBrowneofMadingley Executive Director (Group Chief Executive) September 1991
Dr A B Hayward Executive Director (Group Chief Executive designate) February 2003
Dr D C Allen Executive Director (Group Chief of Staff) February 2003
PBPBevan Group General Counsel September 1992
SBott Executive Vice President, Human Resources March 2005
I C Conn Executive Director (Group Executive Officer, Strategic Resources) July 2004
VCox Executive Vice President, Gas, Power & Renewables July 2004
Dr B E Grote Executive Director (Chief Financial Officer) August 2000
A G Inglis Executive Director (Chief Executive, Exploration and Production) February 2007
R A Malone Executive Vice President (Chairman and President of BP America Inc.) July 2006
JAManzoni Executive Director (Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing) February 2003
J H Bryan Non-Executive Director December 1998
ABurgmans Non-Executive Director February 2004
Sir William Castell Non-Executive Director July 2006
EBDavis,Jr Non-Executive Director December 1998
D J Flint Non-Executive Director January 2005
Dr D S Julius Non-Executive Director November 2001
Sir Tom McKillop Non-Executive Director July 2004
Dr W E Massey Non-Executive Director December 1998
On 12 January 2007, BP announced that Lord Browne of Madingley
would retire as group chief executive at the end of July 2007 and that
Dr A B Hayward, currently head of BP’s exploration and production
business, would succeed him at that time.
Mr M H Wilson resigned as a director on 28 February 2006 and
Mr H M P Miles retired as a director on 20 April 2006. Sir William Castell
was appointed a non-executive director on 20 July 2006 and Mr A G Inglis
was appointed an executive director on 1 February 2007. At the
company’s 2006 annual general meeting (AGM), the following directors
retired, offered themselves for re-election and were duly re-elected:
Dr D C Allen, The Lord Browne of Madingley, Mr J H Bryan,
Mr A Burgmans, Mr I C Conn, Mr E B Davis, Jr, Mr D J Flint, Dr B E
Grote, Dr A B Hayward, Dr D S Julius, Sir Tom McKillop, Mr J A Manzoni,
Dr W E Massey, Sir Ian Prosser and Mr P D Sutherland.
David Jackson (54) was appointed company secretary in 2003. A solicitor,
he is a director of BP Pension Trustees Limited, a director of Business
in the Community and a member of the Listing Authorities Advisory
Committee.
P D Sutherland, KCMG
Peter Sutherland (60) rejoined BP’s board in 1995, having been a non-
executive director from 1990 to 1993, and was appointed chairman in 1997.
He is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a
non-executive director of Investor AB and The Royal Bank of
Scotland Group.
Chairman of the chairman’s and nomination committees
Sir Ian Prosser
Sir Ian (63) joined BP’s board in 1997 and was appointed non-executive
deputy chairman in 1999. He is the senior non-executive director. He
retired as chairman of InterContinental Hotels Group PLC, previously
Bass PLC, in 2003. He is the senior independent non-executive director
of GlaxoSmithKline plc and a non-executive director of the Sara Lee
Corporation. He was previously on the boards of The Boots Company PLC
and Lloyds TSB PLC.
Member of the chairman’s, nomination and remuneration committees and
chairman of the audit committee
The Lord Browne of Madingley, FRS, FREng
John Browne (59) joined BP in 1966 and subsequently held a variety of
exploration and production and finance posts in the US, UK and Canada.
He was appointed an executive director in 1991 and group chief executive
in 1995. He will retire as group chief executive at the end of July 2007. He
is a non-executive director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. He was knighted
in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001.
Dr A B Hayward
Tony Hayward (49) joined BP in 1982. He held a series of roles in
exploration and production, becoming a director of exploration and
production in 1997. In 2000, he was made group treasurer, and an
executive vice president in 2002. He was chief executive officer of
exploration and production between 2002 and 1 February 2007, becoming
an executive director in 2003. He has been appointed to succeed Lord
Browne as group chief executive following Lord Browne’s retirement
in July. Dr Hayward is a non-executive director of Corus Group plc.
Dr D C Allen
David Allen (52) joined BP in 1978 and subsequently undertook a number
of corporate and exploration and production roles in London and New
York. He moved to BP’s corporate planning function in 1986, becoming
group vice president in 1999. He was appointed executive vice president
and group chief of staff in 2000 and an executive director of BP in 2003.
He is a director of BP Pension Trustees Limited.
PBPBevan
Peter Bevan (62) joined BP in 1970 after qualifying as a solicitor with a
City of London firm. He worked initially in the law department of BP’s
chemicals business. He became group general counsel in 1992 following
roles as manager of the legal function of BP Exploration, assistant
company secretary and deputy group legal adviser. He was appointed
an executive vice president of BP p.l.c. in 1998.
SBott
Sally Bott (57) joined BP in March 2005 as an executive vice president
responsible for global human resources management. She joined Citibank
in 1970 and, following a variety of roles, was appointed a vice president in
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