1. Peter Robert Voser was born on 29 August 1958 and is a Swiss businessman, who is the chairman of the Swedish-Swiss company ABB.
11 Facts About Peter Voser
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Peter Voser was the CEO of the Dutch-British corporation Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009 to December 2013.
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Peter Voser was interim CEO of ABB from April 2019 to February 2020.
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Peter Voser started his career at Royal Dutch Shell in 1982, working in a number of finance and business roles in different countries.
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In 1982, at age 24, Voser joined Shell and held a variety of finance and business roles in Switzerland, the UK, Argentina and Chile, as well as chief financial officer of Oil Products.
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From 2002 to 2004, Peter Voser was CFO and an executive committee member of the Asea Brown Boveri Group of Companies.
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Peter Voser is active in a number of international and bilateral organisations, including the European Round Table of Industrialists and The Business Council.
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Peter Voser was CFO of Shell until mid-2009, when he became the company's CEO and was succeeded as CFO by Simon Henry.
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On 2 May 2013, it was announced that Peter Voser would retire from Shell in the first half of 2014.
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On 17 April 2019, Peter Voser was named interim Chief Executive Officer of ABB.
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Peter Voser was responsible for the controversial projects of the US oil shale lands, the Niger Delta and the Arctic oil exploration.