Railtrack was a group of companies that owned the track,signalling,tunnels,bridges,level crossings and all but a handful of the stations of the British railway system from 1994 until 2002. It was created as part of the privatisation of British Rail,listed on the London Stock Exchange,and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In 2002,after experiencing major financial difficulty,most of Railtrack's operations were transferred to the state-controlled non-profit company Network Rail. The remainder of Railtrack was renamed RT Group plc and eventually dissolved on 22 June 2010.
Sir Richard Lake Olver FREng was the chairman of BAE Systems,one of the world's largest defence contractors.
Sir Robert Alastair Newton Morton was Chief Executive of Eurotunnel and Chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority,industrialist and the last chairman of the British Railways Board.
Edmund John Phillip Browne,Baron Browne of Madingley,is a British businessman.
BP Canada was a Canadian petroleum company and subsidiary of British Petroleum that existed between 1955 and 1992. The name refers to a group of companies that engaged in various segments of the petroleum industry lifecycle. BP entered the Canadian market in October 1953,when it purchased a 23 percent stake in the Triad Oil Company. In 1955,BP formed a Canadian subsidiary,based in Montreal,called BP Canada Limited. The company began acquiring retail stations in Ontario and Quebec and in 1957 started construction on a refinery in Montreal. By the end of the 1950s BP Canada was a fully-integrated operation. In 1964,it acquired from Cities Service the Oakville Refinery,and then expanded its operations significantly in 1971 when it acquired Supertest Petroleum.
Britoil plc was originally a privatised British oil company operating in the North Sea. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company was acquired by BP in 1988,becoming a brand of it.
Gerald Michael Nolan Corbett is a retired businessman who was the chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 2015-2021. Over his career he has been a director of thirteen public companies,seven of which he has chaired. He was chairman of Segro plc,the FTSE 100 international industrial property logistics group between 2016-22. He chaired Britvic plc for 12 years until September 2017. As chairman he led the flotation of Britvic in 2005. He was chairman of Betfair between 2012 and 2016 when Betfair merged with Paddy Power to create Paddy Power Betfair.
The Sloan Fellows program is a middle and senior-career master's degree program in general management and leadership offered at MIT,Stanford University,and London Business School (LBS).
The Edwin L. Cox School of Business is an American business school that is part of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas,Texas. The SMU Cox School of Business is headquartered in four buildings on SMU's 210-acre main campus five miles north of downtown Dallas and has a second campus in Plano,Texas.
Anthony Bryan Hayward is a British businessman and former CEO of the oil and energy company BP. He replaced the Baron Browne of Madingley on 1 May 2007. His tenure ended on 1 October 2010 when he was replaced by Bob Dudley following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He was chairman of Glencore Xstrata from 2014 to 2021.
BP p.l.c. is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London,England. It is one of the oil and gas "supermajors" and one of the world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits. It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry,including exploration and extraction,refining,distribution and marketing,power generation,and trading.
William Samuel Hugh Laidlaw is the Executive Chairman of Neptune Energy,the independent E&P company. He is former chief executive officer of Centrica,the British natural gas and electricity company.
Robert Warren Dudley is an American businessman who is a former group chief executive of BP. He had been president and chief executive of TNK-BP and on June 18,2010,was assigned to be BP executive in charge of the Gulf Coast Restoration Organization responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He is the chair of the international industry-led Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). He is a former board member of Rosneft,the Russian state-owned energy giant.
David Yu is an American businessman and investor. He is the former CEO of Internet betting exchange Betfair and an active tech investor.
Sir Andrew Stewart Mackenzie is a Scottish businessman,who is the chairman of Shell plc and formerly CEO of BHP Billiton,the world's largest mining company. He succeeded Marius Kloppers,on 10 May 2013,and was succeeded by Mike Henry,at the start of 2020.
Richard Ward joined the Ardonagh Group,in September 2018 as executive chairman of specialty. Ardonagh are one of the world's leading independent insurance brokers. Ward is on the board of Direct Line Group as the senior independent non-executive director and chair of the remuneration committee,having joined in January 2016.
Sir John Alexander Manzoni is a British senior civil servant and business executive,who served as chief executive of the civil service and the Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary from 2014 to 2020.
Stan Polovets is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is known for his work in the international energy sector and for his innovative philanthropic initiatives.
Jack B. Moore was the chairman,president and chief executive officer of Cameron International Corporation. He became the president and CEO in April 2008 and became the chairman of the board in May 2011. He retired in Q4'2015.
Richard Neil "Rick" Haythornthwaite is a British business executive. He has led several companies including being the chairman of MasterCard and the Creative Industries Federation. He has been appointed as the independent non-executive chairman of Ocado Group,stepping in by the time of the company's May 2021 annual general meeting to replace previous Ocado chairman Stuart Rose.
