How Sir John Browne turned BP Amoco into the hottest prospect in the oil patch.
John Browne, who was chief executive before Tony Hayward, led the company to an enviable performance record with global expansion, acquisitions and cost-cutting.
For BP Amoco's soft-spoken CEO, Sir John Browne, deep water offers the prospect of the largest untapped reserves and the lowest-cost means of extraction.
He inherited Winchester after John Browne was criticised for corruption by the Commons, quit as Tory candidate, then fought the seat as an independent.
Hayward, for instance, got a degree in geology and his predecessor John Browne had a degree in physics from Cambridge University and an M.
His predecessor, John Browne, was in many ways a remarkable chief executive, a man who sprinkled pixie dust onto the company's black gold while also boosting its market capitalisation ninefold.
Bad headlines, yes, but they have not led to a crisis of confidence in the leadership of Chief Executive John Browne such as befell BP's rival Royal Dutch Shell in 2004.
Bad headlines, yes, but they have not led to a crisis of confidence in the leadership of Chief Executive John Browne such as befell BP's rival Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people ) in 2004.
In addition to those cited in this report, the author is particularly grateful for the insights, many of them off the record, of Hal Sirkin, Nandan Nilekani, Alvaro Rodriguez Arragui, Bernard Charles, Joshua Ramo, Michelle Guthrie, Arjun Divecha, Len Blavatnik, Viktor Vekselberg, Malvinder Singh, Bill Ford, Michael Green, Lord John Browne, John Studzinski, Bill Rhodes, Diana Farrell, Mikhail Fridman, Graham Mackey, Thor Bjorgolfsson, Ram Charan, Nabil Habayeb, Diana Glassman, David Rubenstein, Eli Jacobs, Dambisa Moyo, Alastair Newton and Michael Patsalos Fox.
John Henry Browne, the Seattle attorney directing the soldier's defense, said his client would plead guilty at a June 5 hearing to all charges, including premeditated murder.
Seattle attorney John Henry Browne, who is representing Sgt.
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The service, at the Guards Chapel at London's Wellington Barracks, in Birdcage Walk, heard tributes from former defence secretary Des Browne, who also knew the officer, and Col Thorneloe's father, Major John Thorneloe.
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