BT Regulatory News (BT.A)

March 10, 2014

IAIN CONN TO JOIN BT BOARD

Iain Conn, BP plc Managing Director and Chief Executive, Refining and Marketing, is to join the BT Board as a non-executive director. His appointment takes effect from 1 June 2014.

Iain joined BP in 1986 and worked in a variety of roles across the upstream, downstream and oil trading businesses. He joined BP's board in 2004 serving three years as group executive officer, strategic resources, until taking up his current position in 2007. Iain also has regional responsibility for Europe, Asia and Southern Africa. In addition to the UK, Iain has lived in Italy, Colombia and the US during his BP career.

Iain will stand down from the Rolls-Royce plc board in May having served nine years as a non-executive director, including seven as senior independent director. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of The Imperial College Business School and a member of the Imperial College Council. Iain is also a member of the Energy and Climate Change Board, CBI, and a member of the advisory boards of the Centre for European Reform and of the Centre for China in the world Economy at Tsinghua University.

In welcoming the appointment, BT's Chairman, Sir Michael Rake, said: "I am delighted that Iain will be joining BT. He brings with him a wealth of experience in the technology and energy markets as well as broad international experience which will be a real asset to the Board." 

Iain added: "I'm very much looking forward to joining BT. It's a very interesting time in the industry as a whole and I am excited about BT's role in it." 

Iain Conn biography

Iain Conn joined BP Oil International in 1986, working in a variety of roles in oil trading, commercial refining and exploration before becoming, on the merger between BP and Amoco in 1999, vice president of BP Amoco Exploration's mid-continent business unit in Houston. At the end of 2000, he returned to London as group vice president and a member of the Refining and Marketing segment's executive committee, taking over responsibility in 2001 for BP's marketing operations in Europe. In 2002 he was appointed chief executive of BP Petrochemicals. Following his appointment to the board in 2004, he served for three years as group executive officer, strategic resources, in which he had responsibility for a number of regions and group functions including Technology, IT, Marketing, Safety, Procurement and Human Resources. He was appointed chief executive, Refining and Marketing on 1 June 2007. Iain has regional responsibility for Europe, including the UK, together with Asia and Southern Africa.

Iain has served as a non-executive director and senior independent director at Rolls-Royce plc, having joined in 2005 and will stand down from Rolls-Royce at the AGM in May. Iain is chairman of the advisory board of the Imperial College Business School and a member of the Imperial College Council.

Iain was born in Edinburgh and educated in Musselburgh, Scotland. He studied chemical engineering at the Imperial College London. Iain is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Institution of Chemicals Engineers, and the City and Guilds of London Institute.

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