“BG Group chief executive Chris Finlayson has been ousted by the oil and gas explorer’s board following a disastrous 16 months in the job….” No one can say that we did not repeatedly warn BG Group about the competence and ethics of Chris Finlayson…
By John Donovan
The news media is reporting that former Royal Dutch Shell executive Chris Finlayson has quit as CEO of BG Group.
Actually, he was unceremoniously fired.
Extract from article published by The Independent: “BG Group chief Chris Finlayson resigns after 16 months at the helm”
BG Group chief executive Chris Finlayson has been ousted by the oil and gas explorer’s board following a disastrous 16 months in the job. He is understood not to have another job to go to… In an unusually blunt statement Gould said: “The board felt that it was in the best interests of the group to accept Chris’ resignation and seek fresh leadership.” Since taking over Finlayson has presided over a succession of profit warnings and a 37% slump in annual profits…
Extract from FT article:
BG Group – Chris Finlayson has resigned as chief executive of the UK-based oil and gas group after only 15 months in the job…
Extracts from Bloomberg/Businessweek article “BG Chief Finlayson Quits After Year in Job as Outlook Dumped”
BG Group Plc (BG/) Chief Executive Officer Chris Finlayson resigned after little more than a year in the job as the third-largest U.K. oil and gas producer ditched an output forecast that’s just three months old. The company’s reviewing operational, investment and portfolio management plans and won’t offer 2015 guidance until February, it said, abandoning a forecast Finlayson made in January. “The board felt that it was in the best interests of the group to accept Chris’s resignation and seek fresh leadership…”
No one can say that we did not repeatedly warn BG Group about the competence and ethics of Chris Finalayson…
- Shareholder alarm over appointment of BG Group CEO Chris Finlayson: 16 December 2012
- CHRIS FINLAYSON AND THE ROYAL DUTCH SHELL RESERVES SCANDAL: 18 December 2012
- Contact with BG Group about its controversial new CEO Chris Finlayson: 17 December 2012
- BG Group CEO Chris Finlayson and the Shell ‘Touch Fuck All’ Scandal: 20 December 2012
- BG Group corporate incubator for Shell strays?: 22 December 2012
- How Chris Finlayson bungled the Mother of all Projects: Sakhalin II: 24 December 2012
- Chris Finlayson: One can of worms after another: 17 Jan 2013
- BG Group CEO Chris Finlayson, past indiscretions at Shell: 8 June 2013
- Chris Finlayson saw himself as the victim of a brutal Shell regime: 21 October 2013
- Chris Finlayson’s dreadful first year as chief executive at BG: 4 Feb 2014
