Tony Hayward, a British entrepreneur, has a net worth of $40 million. What is his salary and net worth?
In May 1957, Tony Hayward was born in Slough, Buckinghamshire, England.
His most notable accomplishments include being the former CEO of BP, an oil and energy corporation.
Tony was the firstborn of seven children.
He earned a degree from Aston University and obtained a PhD from the University of Edinburgh.
In 1982, he started working as a rig geologist at BP.
He was employed in London, France, Aberdeen, China, and Glasgow.
He was appointed as the executive assistant to Lord Browne.
In 1992, he began his career as an exploration manager in Colombia and then went on to become the president of the company’s operations in Venezuela in 1995. He then returned to London in 1997 as the director of Exploration.
In 1999, Hayward was appointed as the vice-president of BP Amoco Exploration and Production and a member of the Upstream executive committee.
He was appointed as the executive vice-president in 2002.
BP’s chief executive position was taken over by Hayward in 2007, replacing Lord Browne.
In 2008, he was paid more than $1 million pounds with a bonus of almost $1.5 million pounds, and in 2009, he was paid just over $2 million pounds.
Bob Dudley took over from Hayward in 2010 after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
In 2013, Hayward was appointed as the chairman of CompactGTL, a UK gas-to-liquids company.
Vallares, a venture firm, merged with Genel Energy, a Turkish oil firm, in 2011 to create a $4.5 billion enterprise.