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Group regional responsibilities: Asia, the Indian Sub-Continent & Australasia.
Other group accountabilities: Group integrated supply and trading activities.
Education: PhD in Quantitative Analysis from Cornell University.
Career: Byron Grote joined Standard Oil (Ohio) in 1979. Over the subsequent five years he had management responsibility for a range of activities in international oil supply planning, logistics and crude oil trading. In 1985 he became director of planning for Standard Oil's mining subsidiary, Kennecott. In 1986 he was appointed vice president, retail sales, where he was responsible for managing the company's US retail petrol operations. In 1988 Dr Grote became commercial vice president for BP's Alaskan North Slope production activities.
In 1989 he was appointed commercial general manager of BP Exploration based in London. He became group treasurer and chief executive officer of BP Finance in 1992, directing the global finance operations of the BP group. In 1994 he took up the position of regional chief executive, based in Bogota, Colombia, where he led BP's Exploration and Production activities in Latin America. In 1995 he returned to London to take up his appointment as deputy chief executive officer of BP Exploration.
He became group chief of staff in 1997 with responsibility for a number of corporate areas including strategy, technology, IT, investor relations and BP Solar. Following the merger of BP and Amoco, in 1999 he was appointed executive vice president, Exploration and Production. Between April 1999 and July 2000 he was responsible for planning and managing the integration of ARCO's operations into BP.
He was appointed to the BP board of directors in August 2000 when he became chief executive of BP Chemicals which position he filled for two years prior to being appointed chief financial officer in November 2002.
External roles:
Member of the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management Advisory Council
Chairman of the Chemicals Innovation and Growth Team, a joint initiative of the UK Chemicals sector and the Department of Trade and Industry (2001 - 2002)
Vice-chairman of the UK Government's Public Services Productivity Panel (1998 to 2000)
Member of the Economic Advisory Panel to the Governor of Guangdong Province.
Member of the UK Government's Asia Task Force
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