Argus Appoints Roddy Kennedy to Board

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Apr 06, 2010, 05:17 ET

LONDON, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Argus has appointed Roddy Kennedy, the former head of media relations at BP, as a non-executive board director.

"Roddy is a welcome addition to the Argus board of directors. Having worked closely with three chief executives at BP over the last two decades, Roddy brings a wealth of experience and a unique perspective of the energy world to Argus," Argus Media chairman and chief executive Adrian Binks says.

Roddy joined BP in 1978 to edit a shipping publication and joined the company's press office in 1980. He became deputy head of media in 1982, and was appointed head of government and public affairs for the exploration division in 1989, where he worked closely with the division's newly appointed chief executive John Browne on the radical restructuring of BP's upstream business worldwide. Roddy was appointed head of media by BP chief executive David Simon in mid-1992. He remained in that post — taking additional responsibility for group publications in 1995 and becoming a vice-president in 2000 — until his retirement from BP at the end of 2009.

Prior to BP, Roddy trained as a journalist with the Leicester Mercury group and worked at the Daily Express and Sunday Express. He was born in Ireland, and moved to London when he was 13 years old.

About Argus Media

Argus is a leading provider of price assessments and indexes, business intelligence and market data on the global crude and products, natural gas, coal, electricity, emissions and transportation industries. It is headquartered in London and has offices in Houston, Washington, New York, Portland, Johannesburg, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, Moscow, Astana, Kiev, Santiago and other key centres of the energy industry. Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company. Learn more at www.argusmedia.com.