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Key accountabilities: Robert (Bob) Malone is BP's chief representative in the United States. He is based in Houston Texas where BP business units are involved in oil and natural gas exploration and production refining chemicals supply and trading pipeline operations shipping and alternative energy. He is also a member of the BP executive management team.
Education: He holds a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a Master of Science in Management.
Career: Bob Malone started his career in 1974 as a junior metallurgical engineer at Kennecott Copper Corporation in Ely Nevada. Over the next 4 years he had various plant and environmental engineering roles which in 1977 lead to an operational leadership position as Director of Health Safety and Environment (HSE) for the Nevada division. In 1979 Bob became the Manager of Safety and Security for the western mining division located in Salt Lake City Utah and then went on to become Assistant to the Chairman and President of Kennecott Corporation in 1980.
In 1981 Kennecott was acquired by Standard Oil of Ohio (SOHIO) and in 1987 British Petroleum acquired SOHIO and Kennecott became part of BP Minerals America. During this period Bob was the Director of HSE for both Kennecott and BP America.
From 1988 to 1989 Bob was a Sloan Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His next BP post was the Vice President of Operations at the Carborundum Company of Niagara Falls - a subsidiary of BP America Inc. In 1993 he became President of BP Pipelines Alaska and then in 1996 Mr. Malone was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (APSC) operator of the Trans Alaska Oil Pipeline.
After four years of running APSC Bob became Western Regional President for BP America until 2002 when he became Chief Executive of BP Shipping Limited responsible for BP's global shipping operations. He was appointed into his current role as Chairman and President of BP America Inc in mid 2006. He was also named Executive Vice President of BP plc and a member of the group chief executive committee.
External Roles: Mr. Malone has served on the California Climate Action Registry Board of Directors the Board of the National Petroleum Council and was a member of the Board of Regents for the University of Alaska system. He is on the Board for the Alliance to Save Energy the Executive Committee for the American Petroleum Institute and is a member of the Business Roundtable Organization. | 