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Corporate governance
Bernard Looney
Current position
Chief operating officer, production
Executive team tenure
Appointed 1 November 2010
Outside interests
Member of the Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
Advisory Council
Fellow of the Energy Institute
Age 44 Nationality Irish
Career
Bernard Looney is responsible for BP’s
operated production, with specific
accountability for drilling, operations,
engineering, procurement and supply
chain management, and health, safety
and environment in the Upstream.
Bernard joined BP in 1991 as a drilling
engineer, working in the North Sea,
Vietnam and the Gulf of Mexico. In 2001
Bernard took responsibility for drilling
operations on Thunder Horse in the
deepwater Gulf of Mexico. In 2005 he
became senior vice president for BP
Alaska, before moving in 2007 to be
head of the group chief executive’s
office. In 2009 he became the managing
director of BP’s North Sea business in
the UK and Norway. At the same time,
Bernard became a member of the Oil &
Gas UK Board – the North Sea oil and
gas trade association. He became
co-chair in mid-2010. Bernard became
executive vice president, developments,
in October 2010 and took up his current
role in February 2013.
Lamar McKay
Current position
Chief executive, Upstream
Executive team tenure
Appointed 16 June 2008
Outside interests
Member of Mississippi State University
Dean’s Advisory Council
Age 56 Nationality American
The executive team represents the
principal executive leadership of the
BP group. Its members include
BP’s executive directors (Bob
Dudley and Dr Brian Gilvary whose
biographies appear on pages 52-55)
and the senior management listed
left.
Career
Lamar McKay is responsible for the
Upstream segment which consists of
exploration, development and
production.
Lamar started his career in 1980 with
Amoco and held a range of technical and
leadership roles.
During 1998 to 2000, he worked on the
BP-Amoco merger and served as head
of strategy and planning for the
exploration and production business. In
2000 he became business unit leader
for the central North Sea. In 2001 he
became chief of staff for exploration and
production, and subsequently for BP’s
deputy group chief executive. Lamar
became group vice president, Russia
and Kazakhstan in 2003. He served as a
member of the board of directors of
TNK-BP between February 2004 and
May 2007. In 2007 he was appointed
executive vice president, BP America.
In 2008 he became executive vice
president, special projects where he
led BP’s efforts to restructure the
governance framework for TNK-BP. In
2009 Lamar was appointed chairman
and president of BP America, serving
as BP’s chief representative in the US.
In January 2013, he became chief
executive, Upstream.
Dev Sanyal
Current position
Executive vice president, strategy and
regions
Executive team tenure
Appointed 1 January 2012
Outside interests
Independent non-executive director,
Man Group plc.
Member, Accenture Global Energy
Board
Member, Board of Advisors of the
Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy
Age 49 Nationality British and Indian
Career
Dev Sanyal is responsible for Europe,
Asia, strategy and long-term planning,
risk management, government and
political affairs, policy and group
integration and governance.
Dev joined BP in 1989 and has held a
variety of international roles in London,
Athens, Istanbul, Vienna and Dubai. He
was appointed chief executive, BP
eastern Mediterranean fuels in 1999.
He moved to London as chief of staff
of BP’s worldwide downstream
businesses in 2002. In November 2003
he was appointed chief executive officer
of Air BP international. In June 2006 he
was appointed head of the group chief
executive’s office. He was appointed
group vice president and group treasurer
in 2007. During this period, he was also
chairman of BP Investment
Management Ltd and was accountable
for the group’s aluminium interests.
Helmut Schuster
Current position
Executive vice president, group human
resources director
Executive team tenure
Appointed 1 March 2011
Outside interests
Non-executive director of Ivoclar
Vivadent AG
Age 54 Nationality Austrian
Career
Helmut Schuster became group human
resources director in March 2011. In this
role he is accountable for the BP human
resources function.
Helmut began his career working for
Henkel in a marketing capacity. Since
joining BP in 1989 Helmut has held a
number of major leadership roles within
the organization. He has worked in BP
offices in the US, the UK and continental
Europe and within most parts of
refining, marketing, trading and gas and
power. Before taking on his current role,
his responsibilities as a vice president,
human resources included the refining
and marketing segment of BP, and
corporate and functions. That role saw
him leading the people agenda for
roughly 60,000 people across the globe
that includes businesses such as
petrochemicals, fuels value chains,
lubricants and functional experts across
the group.
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The ages of the executive team are
correct as at 3 March 2015.