Dick Olver
Sir Dick Olver is the chairman of global arms company BAE.
Career
Olver had a 30 year career in the oil industry with BP. He was previously served as vice president of BP Pipelines Inc, BP North America in 1979; divisional manager for new technology in 1983; division manager for corporate planning in 1985; general manager of BP Exploration Europe and executive director of BP Plc in 1988; chief of staff to the chairman of BP and head of corporate strategy for the BP Group in 1990; chief executive of BP Exploration, USA in 1992; deputy chief executive of BP Exploration in 1995; CEO of exploration and production from 1998; and as deputy group chief executive of BP plc from 2003 to 2004.[1]
Olver was also a non-executive director Reuters and a senior independent non-executive director of Thomson Reuters Corporations.[1]
He has been the chairman of BAE Systems PLC since July 2004, and was awarded a knighthood for turning the company around.[2]
Olver is:
- an adviser to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Inc and HSBC
- member of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Group
- a UK Business Ambassador
- deputy chairman of TNK-BP.[1]
Letter to the Telegraph
On 1 April 2015 Olver was one of 103 business leaders who wrote to the Telegraph praising the British Conservative Party's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bloomberg Dick Olver, accessed 3 April 2015.
- ↑ Mark Wembridge Dick Olver knighted after turning round BAE Systems Financial Times, 14 July 2013, accessed 3 April 2015.
- ↑ Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 3 April 2015.
