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BP selects Ericcson CEO Svanberg as new chairman
BP on June 25 announced that it has appointed Carl-Henric Svanberg, currently chief executive officer of the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, to replace Peter Sutherland as chairman of BP.
Svanberg, who is also chairman of Sony Ericsson and a non-executive director of Melker Schörling AB, will join the BP board as chairman-designate and a non-executive director on September 1, 2009.
He will step down at year-end after a seven-year tenure as Ericsson chief executive and Sony Ericsson chairman and succeed Sutherland as chairman of BP on January 1, 2010. He will be based in London and devote the majority of his time to BP business.
Svanberg, 57, said: "BP is a recognized world leader in the energy sector, and it's a great privilege to be invited to lead its board. Following such a distinguished predecessor is quite a challenge but I'm hugely excited about joining the energy industry which is so much at the heart of the global economy. I look forward to it with relish."
The search for the new chairman was conducted by the BP board's nominations committee led by Sir Ian Prosser. The other committee members were Sir William Castell, D • By DANIEL BATES He was brought in as a steady hand to make BP's troubles go away. But chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has put the company back into the spotlight, this time with embarrassing revelations about his personal life. The gaffe-prone Swede is said to have begun an affair with a married mother-of-three just as his own marriage collapsed. So enamoured was he with Louise Julian that within days of the oil spill erupting, he allegedly whisked her away for a cruise on board his 77-foot luxury yacht, the Cygnus Montanus II. Love-boat cruise? Louise Julian and BP boss Carl-Henric Svanberg are said to have visited Thailand, Australia, Bali and Singapore as the Deepwater crisis escalated As millions of gallons spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, the 58-year-old and the Swedish-born blonde were believed to have been sunning themselves on a tour of Thailand, Australia, Bali and Singapore. They even stopped off at BP's crisis headquarters in Houston as they made their way home from their trip around Asia. Svanberg was brought in as BP's public face after chief executive Tony Hayward made a string of gaffes including moaning that he 'wanted his life back'. But he has a
Swedish BP chairman 'whisked married lover on luxury cruise as oil spill chaos erupted'
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