Leading an Energy Company: Ross Pillari, Retired Chairman & CEO, BP America, Inc.

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Wed, Sep 8, 2021

12 PM – 12:45 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Join us September 8 at 12 p.m. EST via Zoom as part of the Case Western Reserve University Entrepreneurship Speaker Series for a conversation with Ross Pillari, retired Chairman & CEO of BP America, Inc. He will be discussing leading an energy company, as well as his career journey.

From 2001-2006, Pillari served as chairman & CEO of BP America Inc. He remained an advisor to BP through December 2007. In addition to his role as the senior BP executive in the USA, he was also a group vice president, BP plc, and responsible for the Western Hemisphere Region of the BP Group. Over a 35-year career at BP and its predecessor organizations, Pillari served in a variety of posts Worldwide where his responsibilities included convenient store operations. 
 

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Ross Pillari

BP America, Inc.

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Pillari currently serves as an advisory board member on energy and utilities related projects of CVC Capital Partners Inc., a global private equity and investment advisory firm. From 2011-2014, he served on the Board of Directors of ZeaChem, Inc., a private company that develops cellulose-based bio refineries for the conversion of renewable feed stocks into sustainable ethanol, fuels and chemicals.

In 1972, Pillari began his career at Standard Oil of Ohio (“Sohio”) as a retail salesman after graduating from Case Western University. In 1984 he joined BP, which acquired a 55% share in Sohio in 1969, and then moved to London in 1987 when BP acquired the remainder of Sohio’s share, to head up the company’s significant refinery assets in the Antwerp/Rotterdam region. Ross returned to the U.S. in 1990 and the next 18 years with BP were split between Naperville, Illinois, London and Melbourne, Australia.

From 2001-2006, Pillari served as chairman & CEO of BP America Inc. He remained an advisor to BP through December 2007. In addition to his role as the senior BP executive in the USA, he was also a group vice president, BP plc, and responsible for the Western Hemisphere Region of the BP Group. Over a 35-year career at BP and its predecessor organizations, Pillari served in a variety of posts Worldwide where his responsibilities included convenient store operations. These included group Vice president of Global Marketing for the BP Group in London; senior vice president, marketing and oil director- BP Oil USA; and director of marketing for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands.

In addition to his professional responsibilities, Pillari has been a member of the Board of Directors of The American Petroleum Institute and The Alliance to Save Energy, and a member of The Baker Institute Energy Forum. (https://cstoredecisions.com/2014/05/23/ross-pillari-joins-board-pantry-inc/) 

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