Sue Rataj is President of BP’s global petrochemicals business, Aromatics and Acetyls, based in Hong Kong. BP’s global petrochemicals business has multi-billion dollar annual sales, and has operations in Asia, with manufacturing sites in China, Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as the Americas, and Europe; and with sales activities in all continents. The business manufactures the feedstocks for use in the Textiles, Plastics, Paints and Adhesives industries.Prior to her current role, Sue was Group Vice President, Safety and Operations and Technology for the Refining and Marketing Segment. Prior to that, she was in a special project role responsible for coordinating BP’s extensive response to the refinery incident in Texas City in March of 2005. In both of these roles, she was located in St. James Square in London.Sue began her career at Amoco in the Corporate Treasurer’s organization in 1988. She had held a variety of management and commercial positions in BP’s global petrochemicals business, including the Business Unit Leader for the Global Nitriles business, the General Manager of the North America PTA business, sales and marketing manager for polybutene, linear alpha olefins and poly alpha olefins sold into the lubricants and additives industries. Prior to that, Sue was Business Development Manager for Aromatics, focusing her efforts on expanding the US paraxylene business and developing European paraxylene alliances. Sue also served as Manager Strategic Planning for Amoco’s Engineering Polymers and Carbon Fibers businesses. Prior to joining Amoco, she worked in the financial services industry.
In 2003, Sue relocated to Hong Kong as Business Unit Leader, first for Asia PTA, then after a reorganization, she assumed accountability for Global PTA.Apart from working in BP's petrochemicals business, including the role of Vice President of Business process Re-engineering for the Petrochemicals segment, Sue also held key business roles in Downstream Retail Marketing, Air BP and BP Marine Fuels.Sue holds a Master’s of Management degree from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Illinois.
Bob GenoveseBusiness Unit Leader, Aromatics Americas
Bob Genovese is responsible for all aspects of BP's aromatics business in the Americas. He has worked for BP for 23 years. During that time, he has held assignments in North America, Europe, and Asia in a variety of businesses and roles that span business management, project management, and manufacturing.Bob began his career with Amoco Oil Company at the Whiting Refinery in 1986 and held several manufacturing roles through 1993. He joined Amoco Chemicals in 1993 and worked for six years in Chicago as a Product Manager and Project General Manager in the Aromatics business. After the BP acquisition of Amoco, Bob moved to London in 1999 as a Business Manager in the European Olefins business. In 2000, he transferred to Jakarta, Indonesia, as the President Director of PT PENI, a polyethylene joint venture. After selling the venture in 2003, he returned to London where he became the Vice President of Planning for BP Petrochemicals. He held the role of Commercial General Manager for the Aromatics & Acetyls businesses in BP during 2005/2006 before assuming his current responsibilities as Business Unit Leader, Aromatics Americas.Bob graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. He also holds a Master of Management degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
James YimBusiness Unit Leader, Aromatics Asia
James Yim has held various commercial, manufacturing and business development leadership roles in BP’s petrochemical businesses in Asia over the past 20 years. Prior to assuming his current role, he was Vice President, Sales, Marketing, Supply and Logistics of Aromatics Asia during late 2006 to October 2008. Prior to that, James was based in Shanghai as the Commercial Director for SECCO (BP’s cracker joint venture with Sinopec in China) leading procurement, outsourcing, sales and marketing, supply chain management, customer and technical services from start up preparation, commissioning to full operations from 2002-2006.Apart from HK and Shanghai, James had worked and lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur and Glasgow.
Guy MoeyensBusiness Unit Leader, Acetyls Global
Guy Moeyens is based in Shanghai. He has a degree in Applied Economics and a Masters in Business Adminstration. He has held various roles in BP chemicals and also in retail. He speaks four languages – Dutch, English, French and German.
Frédéric BaudryVice President, Aromatics and Acetyls Europe
Frédéric Baudry was appointed Vice President Aromatics & Acetyls Europe in April 2009. He leads all aspects of A&A’s petrochemicals businesses in Europe, with accountability for commercial, operational and embedded functional activities, and responsibility for the Hull and Geel manufacturing sites.Frédéric began his oil industry career in the UK, joining BP's Finance organisation in 1989. Since transitioning to BP Chemicals' Risk Management team in 1991, Frédéric’s career has been spent in B2B and B2C Marketing. Over the next 10 years, he held a series of product management, sales and marketing roles across BP's Chemicals businesses in Europe and in Asia-Pacific. He capped off his previous involvement with the Chemicals business as Strategy Manager for Chemicals Intermediates, where he led portfolio rationalisation in particular.In 2001, Frédéric transferred to the Retail business, first to salvage BP’s Retail network in France, and later at the helm of BP's Retail Accelerator, a programme aimed at transforming BP’s convenience retailing operations around the world. In 2006, Frédéric was appointed Chief Executive of the Marine & Energy Lubricants business, where he led a remarkable recovery in the business.A French native, Frédéric graduated with an MBA from France. He is married with Lisa and has 3 young sons. Frédéric is based in Sunbury, UK.
Lake WangHuman Resources Director, Aromatics and Acetyls
Lake brings a wealth of experience with more than 17 years of strategic and operational HR competencies, functional expertise, change management and JV experiences. Lake joined BP from AP Moller Maersk where he spent more than six years as VP of HR for Greater China, and a Director of Maersk (China) Shipping Co. Ltd. Prior to Maersk, he was the HR Manager for BASF China and before that, HR Manager for Danone China.Lake holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Shanghai Normal University and an MBA from China Europe International Business School. He is currently a doctoral candidate with Cranfield University, UK, and his research focus is on “Multinational Companies Leadership Development in China.” Lake is based in Shanghai, China.
Heather TingChief Financial Officer, Aromatics and Acetyls,Asia Olefins and Derivatives, and China Retail
Heather Ting initially joined the company as legal counsel in 1993 and worked on numerous energy projects in Asia for a decade in the Legal Department. Prior to her current role as CFO for Global Petrochemicals, Heather was President for both Gas and Exploration & Production in China where she managed and developed the Chinese natural gas business for 7 years from Beijing and Shanghai. Heather has a both Bachelor’s Degree and a Juris Doctor in Law from UCLA
Suzanne DavisonVice President, TechnologyAromatics and Acetyls
Sue graduated from Sheffield University in the UK with a PhD in the field of Organometallic Chemistry & Catalysis. She joined BP in 1982 as a chemist and has extensive technology and manufacturing experience. A two year period in a staff role leading a major change project within the Chemicals segment preceded Sue’s return to Technology as the BTM Acetyls and now as Technology Vice President of A&A. Sue is based in Naperville.
Jianning ZhangVice President, Business DevelopmentAromatics and Acetyls China
Jianning joined BP in 1984. He is currently the VP of Business Development, A&A China. He has broad experience in business development, JV operations as well as in GPA both in China and the UK. He graduated from China Europe International Business School and from China University of Georsciences. He also attended Harvard's Advanced Management Program. Jianning is the General Manager of BP China Holding Company and also a member of SECCO Board. He is based in Beijing.
