Rich Karlgaard, Forbes Staff
This article originally appeared in the Apr. 23, 2012 issue of Forbes magazine.
This year will likely be the first time in history that a company tops $500 billion in sales. Two oil companies are good bets to pass the mark: the U.S. ExxonMobil and the U.K.-registered, Netherlands-headquartered Royal Dutch Shell. In late March I talked with Shells CEO, Peter Voser, onstage at a Silicon Valley Churchill Club event.
How did an economist become CEO of Shell? I started out at Shell but left to become the CFO of [Swiss-based] ABB. In 2004 there was a crisis at Shell, and I came back in as CFO.
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