The shareholders of TNK-BP – BP and AAR – have agreed on the appointment of three independent directors in the restructured board of directors of TNK-BP. As the press service of BP, one of them, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.His colleagues are James Leng (James Leng), recently appointed to the post of chairman of the board of directors of mining company Rio Tinto, and the president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Alexander Shokhin, transmits RBC. Also, the shareholders of TNK-BP – BP and AAR – nominated for four of their representatives on the new board of directors of the company, which restrukturiruetsya under previous agreements to resolve the conflict. In the council instead of the 10 directors will be eight and three independent directors. From a British company put Chief Executive vice-president of BP exploration and production Andrew Inglis, vice president, David Pitt, head of BP business in Russia, Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, as well as Deputy Chief Financial Officer of BP Ian McDonald, who has not previously been included in the Board of Directors of TNK-BP. Previously on the board of the interests of BP Patrick Chapman and Robert Sheppard did not get on the list of candidates. AAR nominated to the board of directors of TNK-BP chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alfa group, Mikhail Friedman, chairman of the group of companies “Renova” Viktor Vekselberg, chairman of the board of directors of Access Industries Lena Blavatnika and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Pamplona Capital Management canaster Alex. All of them belong to the current council. The fifth representative of AAR – Stan Polovets – not included in the list of candidates for election to the new composition.
