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Corporate governance
Bernard Looney
Current position
Chief operating officer, production
Executive team tenure
Appointed 1 November 2010
Outside interests
Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering
Member of the Stanford University
Graduate School of Business
Advisory Council
Fellow of the Energy Institute
Age 45 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 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. He became executive
vice president, developments, in October
2010 and took up his current role in
February 2013.
During 2016 Bernard will take on the role
of chief executive, upstream, in addition
to maintaining his current portfolio.
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 57 Nationality American
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.
During 2016 Lamar will take on the role
of deputy group chief executive. In
addition to assuming some of the group
chief executive’s duties he will be
accountable for group strategy and
long-term planning, safety and
operational risk, group technology and
will also focus on various corporate
governance activities including ethics
and compliance.
Dev Sanyal
Current position
Executive vice president, strategy and
regions
Executive team tenure
Appointed 1 January 2012
Outside interests
Independent non-executive director of
Man Group plc
Member of the Accenture Global
Energy Board
Member of the Board of Advisors of
the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy
Vice Chairman of the Centre for China in
the World Economy, Tsinghua
University
Age 50 Nationality British and Indian
Career
Dev Sanyal is responsible for the
Europe and Asia regions and
functionally for group strategy and
long-term planning, risk management,
government and political affairs, policy
and group integration.
Dev joined BP in 1989 and has held a
variety of international roles in London,
Athens, Istanbul, Vienna and Dubai.
He was general manager, former Soviet
Union and eastern Europe, prior to being
appointed chief executive, BP Eastern
Mediterranean Fuels in 1999.
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.
During 2016 Dev will take on the role of
chief executive, alternative energy and
executive vice president, regions.
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 page 57) and the senior
management listed left.
The ages of the executive team are
correct as at 4 March 2016.
Helmut Schuster
Current position
Executive vice president, group human
resources
Executive team tenure
Appointed 1 March 2011
Outside interests
Non-executive director of Ivoclar
Vivadent AG, Germany
Age 55 Nationality Austrian
Career
Helmut Schuster became group human
resources (HR) director on 1 March 2011.
He completed his post graduate diploma
in international relations and his PhD in
economics at the University of Vienna
and then began his career working for
Henkel in a marketing capacity. Since
joining BP in 1989 Helmut has held a
number of leadership roles. He has
worked in BP in the US, UK and
continental Europe and within most parts
of refining, marketing, trading, and gas
and power.
Before taking on his current role his
portfolio of responsibilities as a vice
president, HR 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 and included
businesses such as petrochemicals, fuels
value chains, lubricants and functional
experts across the group. He is also a
non-executive director of BP Europa SE.
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