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Corporate governance
Corporate governance
BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2012
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Executive team
As at 6 March 2013
The executive team represents the principal executive leadership of the
BP group. Its membership includes BP’s executive directors (Bob Dudley,
Iain Conn, Dr Brian Gilvary and Dr Byron Grote) whose biographies appear
on pages 105-108) and the senior management listed below.
Mark Bly
Current position
Mark Bly is BP’s special advisor to the group chief
executive.
Career
Mark Bly joined BP in 1984. From 1986 to 1996, he
worked on various engineering and commercial leadership assignments in
Houston, a period when BP was establishing itself in the Deepwater Gulf
of Mexico. Following which he held business unit leader posts in Alaska
and the North Sea as well as strategic performance unit leader for North
American Gas. In 2007 he became group vice president, exploration and
production (Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad, Angola, North Africa and Egypt) and
a member of the exploration and production operating committee.
In 2008 he became group head of safety and operations, with
accountability for group level disciplines including projects, operations,
engineering, health, safety, security, and environment. In that capacity, he
looked after group wide operating management system implementation,
capability programs, and audit.
In October 2010 Mark was appointed executive vice president of safety
and operational risk. He stepped down from this role on 15 February 2013
and from the BP executive team at this date.
Rupert Bondy
Current position
Rupert Bondy is BP’s group general counsel.
Group responsibilities
Rupert Bondy is responsible for legal and compliance
matters across the BP group.
Career
Rupert Bondy began his career as a lawyer in private practice, with a
focus on mergers and acquisitions. In 1989 he joined US law firm
Morrison & Foerster, working in San Francisco, London and New York,
and from 1994 he worked for UK law firm Lovells in London. In 1995 he
joined SmithKline Beecham as senior counsel for mergers and
acquisitions and other corporate matters. He subsequently held positions
of increasing responsibility and following the merger of SmithKline
Beecham and GlaxoWellcome to form GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) he was
appointed senior vice president and general counsel of GlaxoSmithKline
in 2001.
In May 2008 he joined the BP group, where he is the group general
counsel.
Dr Mike Daly
Current position
Dr Mike Daly is BP’s executive vice president,
exploration.
Group responsibilities
Dr Mike Daly is accountable for the leadership of BP’s
access, exploration and resource appraisal activities and the long-term
replacement of BP’s resource base.
Career
Dr Daly joined BP Exploration in 1986, working as a technical specialist in
structural geology. In the early 1990’s he joined BP’s global basin analysis
group that set the direction of BP’s exploration strategy. This work has
underpinned BP’s exploration and reserves replacement performance for
two decades. Following this strategic work he has occupied a series of
exploration business and functional roles in South America, the North Sea
and new business development globally.
In 2000 he became the president for BP’s Middle East and South Asia
businesses. In July 2006, Dr Daly was appointed BP’s Head of Exploration
and New Business Development and in October 2010 was appointed
executive vice president, exploration.
External roles
Dr Daly is a member of the board of British Geological Survey and a
visiting professor in natural resources at Oxford University. He is also a
member of the Arctic Council of the World Economic Forum.
Bob Fryar
Current position
Bob Fryar is BP’s executive vice president, safety and
operational risk.
Group responsibilities
Bob is responsible for strengthening safety,
operational risk management, and the systematic management of
operations across the BP corporate group. He is Group Head of Safety
and Operations, with accountability for group-level disciplines including
projects, operations, engineering, health, safety, security, and
environment. In this capacity, he looks after group-wide operating
management, system implementation, capability programs and audit.
Career
Bob Fryar has 27 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry having
joined Amoco Production Company in 1985. Most recently Bob was chief
executive officer for BP Angola and in his prior role vice president of
operations performance unit for BP Trinidad.
Prior to joining BP Trinidad in January 2003, Bob served in a variety of
engineering and management positions in the onshore US and deepwater
Gulf of Mexico including petroleum engineer, field manager, operations
manager, resource manager, asset manager and delivery manager. In
addition, he worked on the Vastar integration team.
In October 2010 to February 2013 Bob Fryar was executive vice president
production division and was accountable for safe and compliant
exploration and production operations and stewardship of resources
across all regions. In addition, he was also responsible for local
government and stakeholder management, integration of all exploration
and production activities at the regional level, technical excellence across
safety and operational risk and subsurface, and a robust operating
management system to ensure safety, quality and compliance of
production activities.