BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2011 - Company Reporting

Directors and senior managementDr B GilvaryBrian Gilvary (50) joined BP in 1986. Following a variety of roles inexploration and production, downstream and trading, in 2000 he becamechief of staff of BP’s refining and marketing business and held a numberof executive roles in the business, including chief financial officer andcommercial director from 2002 to 2005. In 2003 he was appointed directorof TNK-BP, retiring from the board in 2005 and re-joining in 2010. From2005 to 2010 he was chief executive of integrated supply and trading, BP’scommodity trading arm. In 2010 he was appointed deputy group chieffinancial officer with responsibility for the finance function. On 1 January2012 he was appointed to the board of BP p.l.c. and became chieffinancial officer.Dr B E GroteByron Grote (63) joined BP in 1987 following the acquisition of the StandardOil Company of Ohio, where he had worked since 1979. He became grouptreasurer in 1992 and in 1994 regional chief executive in Latin America.In 1999, he was appointed an executive vice president of Exploration andProduction, and chief executive of chemicals in 2000. He was appointed anexecutive director of BP in 2000. Between 2002 and 31 December 2011 hewas BP’s chief financial officer. In January 2012 he became executive vicepresident, corporate business activities. He is a non-executive director ofUnilever NV and Unilever PLC.B R NelsonMember of the chairman’s committee and chairman of the audit committeeBrendan Nelson (62) joined BP’s board on 8 November 2010. He is achartered accountant and was admitted as a partner of KPMG in Londonin 1984. He served as a member of the UK Board of KPMG from 2000 to2006 subsequently being appointed vice chairman until his retirement in2010. At KPMG International he held a number of senior positions includingglobal chairman, banking and global chairman, financial services. He is anon-executive director of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc wherehe is chairman of the group audit committee. He is Vice President of theInstitute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, a member of the FinancialReporting Review Panel and a director of the Financial Skills Partnership.F P NhlekoMember of the chairman’s and audit committeesPhuthuma Nhleko (51) joined BP’s board on 1 February 2011. He beganhis career as a civil engineer in the United States and as a project managerfor infrastructure developments in Southern Africa. Following this, hebecame a senior executive of the Standard Corporate and Merchant Bankin South Africa. He later held a succession of directorships before joiningMTN Group, a pan-African and Middle Eastern telephony group, as grouppresident and chief executive officer in 2002. He stepped down as groupchief executive of MTN Group at the end of March 2011 and became vicechairmanof the MTN Group and chairman of MTN International. He is anon-executive director of Anglo American plc.A ShilstonMember of the chairman’s and audit committeesAndrew Shilston (56) trained as a chartered accountant before joining BPas a management accountant. He subsequently joined Abbott Laboratoriesbefore moving to Enterprise Oil plc in 1984 at the time of flotation. In 1989he became treasurer of Enterprise Oil and was appointed finance directorin 1993. After the sale of Enterprise Oil to Shell in 2002, in 2003 he becamefinance director of Rolls-Royce plc until his retirement on 31 December2011. Andrew has served as a non-executive director on the boards of AEATechnology plc and Cairn Energy plc where he chaired the remunerationand audit committees. He recently joined the board of Circle Holdings plcas a non-executive director. He will become senior independent director atthe conclusion of the 2012 AGM.Senior managementM BlyMark Bly (52) joined BP in 1984. Following various engineering andcommercial leadership assignments he held business unit leader postsin Alaska and the North Sea and was strategic performance unit leaderfor BP’s North America Gas business. In 2007, he became group vicepresident, Exploration and Production and a member of the exploration andproduction operating committee. In 2008, he became group head of safetyand operations and in October 2010 he was appointed executive vicepresident of safety and operational risk.R BondyRupert Bondy (50) joined BP as group general counsel in 2008. In 1989,he joined US law firm Morrison & Foerster, working in San Francisco andLondon. From 1994 to 1995, he worked for UK law firm Lovells in London.In 1995, he joined SmithKline Beecham as senior counsel for mergers andacquisitions and other corporate matters. He subsequently held positionsof increasing responsibility and, following the merger of SmithKlineBeecham and GlaxoWellcome, he was appointed senior vice president andgeneral counsel of GlaxoSmithKline in 2001.Dr M C DalyMike Daly (58) joined BP in 1986 as a technical specialist in structuralgeology, subsequently joining BP’s global basin analysis group. After aseries of exploration business and functional roles in South America, theNorth Sea and new business development, in 2000 he became presidentof BP’s Middle East and South Asia businesses. In 2006, he was appointedBP’s head of exploration and new business development and in October2010 he was appointed executive vice president, exploration.R FryarBob Fryar (48) joined Amoco Production Company in 1985, serving in avariety of engineering and management positions in the onshore US anddeepwater Gulf of Mexico. In 2003, he was appointed vice president ofoperations performance unit for BP Trinidad and later, in 2009, he becamechief executive officer for BP Angola. In October 2010, he was appointedexecutive vice president, production.A HopwoodAndy Hopwood (54) joined BP in 1980 as a petroleum engineer. Followinga series of operational and corporate planning roles, in 1999 he wasappointed business unit leader in Azerbaijan, returning to London in 2001as the upstream chief of staff. He became strategic performance unitleader for BP’s North America Gas business in 2004, returning to London in2009 as head of portfolio and technology for BP’s upstream businesses. InOctober 2010, he was appointed executive vice president of strategy andintegration.B LooneyBernard Looney (41) joined BP in 1991 as a drilling engineer, working ina variety of roles in the North Sea, Vietnam and the Gulf of Mexico andlater in the exploration and technology group. In 2005, he became seniorvice president for BP Alaska, before moving to be head of the groupchief executive’s office. He was appointed vice president for Norway andinfrastructure in 2008 and then, in 2009, he became managing director ofBP’s North Sea business. In October 2010, he was appointed executivevice president, developments.116 BP Annual Report and Form 20-F 2011