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\t\tManifold served less than a year as chair of BP\t<\/p>\n\t\t\tWednesday 27 May 2026 5:00 am
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\t\t\tTuesday 26 May 2026 5:58 pm\n\t<\/p>\n
\t\tManifold served less than a year as chair of BP\t<\/p>\n
Yesterday saw the ousting of BP chair<\/a> Albert Manifold after less than one year in the role. According to various media reports, Manifold was \u201cshouty\u201d and \u201caggressive\u201d, with a \u201cvolcanic temper\u201d.<\/p>\n But try as it might to escape crude language, BP\u2019s board may soon suffer similar missives from its shareholders after another c-suite scandal left the company\u2019s stock in the doldrums, shedding \u00a34bn from its market cap in minutes.<\/p>\n Execs at the top of BP seem to have an even shorter tenure than recent prime ministers, and that\u2019s saying something. The oil major is now on its fourth chief executive since the beginning of 2020.<\/p>\n The second of the two, Brendan Looney, was thrown out in 2023 over undisclosed \u201crelationships\u201d with colleagues. His successor, Murray Auchinchloss, who was equally familiar with office friendships, survived for little more than a year, though he was sacked for different reasons.<\/p>\n While by most accounts the latest chief, Meg O\u2019Neill, is settling in well, it\u2019s instead the turn of the chairman, Manifold, to face defenestration after taking up his role only months ago. Known as a no-nonsense boss when he ran construction materials firm CRH, the Irish exec\u2019s tone was a little too curt for some.<\/p>\n \t\tShareholder unease<\/p>\n \u201cHis impact was necessarily limited by the short period of time being in the role,\u201d as one City analyst put it yesterday in one of the more brutal corporate obituaries we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n