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BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 201364
Jerome C Hunsaker Visiting Professor at MIT, subsequently becoming a
Moore distinguished scholar at Caltech in 2001. When she returned to the
University of Cambridge, she became Head of the Division of Energy, Fluid
Mechanics and Turbomachinery in the Department of Engineering,
becoming UK lead of the Silent Aircraft Initiative in 2003 a collaboration
between researchers at Cambridge and MIT. She became head of the
Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2009. She
was appointed director of the University Gas Turbine Partnership with
Rolls-Royce in 2001 and chairman in 2009.
Between 2003 and 2008 she chaired the Rolls-Royce Propulsion and
Power Advisory Board. She chaired the Royal Society/Royal Academy of
Engineering study on nanotechnology. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society
and the Royal Academy of Engineering and is a foreign associate of the US
National Academy of Engineering and of the French Academy of Sciences.
She has been nominated President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
from September 2014.
Relevant experience and skills
Dame Ann Dowling has a strong academic and engineering background.
Having initially been a member of the SEEAC, she joined the remuneration
committee in 2012. Her contributions on both of these committees are
valued, as is her work with the BP technology advisory council, which she
also joined during 2012 and which she now chairs.
Dr Brian Gilvary
Group chief financial ofcer
Tenure
Appointed to the board 1 January 2012 (2 years)
Group responsibilities
Finance, tax, planning, treasury, mergers and acquisitions, investor
relations, audit, procurement and information technology activities
Chairs the group financial risk committee
Outside interests
Visiting professor at Manchester University
Age
51
Nationality
British
Career
Dr Brian Gilvary was appointed chief financial ofcer on 1 January 2012.
He joined BP in 1986 after obtaining a PhD in mathematics from the
University of Manchester. Following a variety of roles in the upstream,
downstream and trading in Europe and the United States, he became the
downstream’s chief financial officer and commercial director from 2002
to 2005.
He was a director of TNK-BP over two periods, from 2003 to 2005 and
from 2010 until the sale of the business and acquisition of Rosneft equity
in 2013. From 2005 until 2009 he was chief executive of the integrated
supply and trading function, BP’s commodity trading arm. In 2010 he was
appointed deputy group chief financial officer with responsibility for the
finance function.
Relevant experience and skills
Dr Brian Gilvary has 27 years of experience within BP, gaining a strong
knowledge of finance and trading, and a deep understanding of BP’s
assets and businesses, including its interests in Russia through his time on
the board of TNK-BP.
Brian has consistently worked to further strengthen the finance function.
He has also developed the company’s engagement with shareholders and
continues to focus on financial efciency.
Brian Gilvary’s performance has been evaluated by the group chief
executive and considered by the chairman’s committee.
Ian Davis
Independent non-executive director
Tenure
Appointed 2 April 2010 (3 years)
Board and committee activities
Chairman of the Gulf of Mexico committee
Member of the remuneration committee
Member of the chairman’s committee
Member of the nomination committee
Outside interests
Chairman of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc.
Non-executive member of the UK Cabinet Ofce
Non-executive director of Johnson & Johnson, Inc.
Senior adviser to Apax Partners LLP.
Age
62
Nationality
British
Career
Ian Davis spent his early career at Bowater, moving to McKinsey &
Company in 1979. He was managing partner of McKinsey’s practice in the
UK and Ireland from 1996 to 2003. In 2003, he was appointed as chairman
and worldwide managing director of McKinsey, serving in this capacity
until 2009. During his career with McKinsey, he served as a consultant to a
range of global organizations across the private, public and not-for-profit
sectors. He retired as senior partner on 30 July 2010.
Relevant experience and skills
Ian Davis brings significant financial and strategic experience to the board.
He has had a lengthy career working with and advising global organizations
and companies in the oil and gas industry. This experience has been
recognized by the board in his membership of the remuneration committee
and chairmanship of the Gulf of Mexico committee.
As chairman of the Gulf of Mexico committee he has led the board’s
oversight of the response in the Gulf and guided their consideration of the
various legal issues which continue to arise following the Deepwater Horizon
accident.
Professor Dame Ann Dowling
Independent non-executive director
Tenure
Appointed 3 February 2012 (2 years)
Board and committee activities
Member of the SEEAC
Member of the remuneration committee
Member of the chairman’s committee
Outside interests
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, head of the Department of
Engineering and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cambridge
Chair of the Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics Panel in the
Research Excellence Framework – the UK Government’s review of
research in universities
Non-executive director of the Department for Business, Innovation
& Skills (BIS)
Age
61
Nationality
British
Career
Dame Ann Dowling was appointed a Professor of Mechanical Engineering
in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge in 1993
(the Department of Engineering is one of the leading centres for
engineering research worldwide). Between 1999 and 2000 she was the