Chevron Names John Watson Vice Chairman
Peter Robertson to Retire After Distinguished 35-year Career; Charles James Named Executive Vice President
Chevron Corporation announced that Chevron Vice Chairman Peter J. Robertson will retire from the company and its board after more than 35 years of distinguished company service. Robertson will be succeeded by John S. Watson, currently executive vice president of Strategy and Development. The company also named Charles A. James, currently vice president and general counsel, executive vice president of Chevron Corporation. These executive changes are effective April 1.
Watson, 52, joined the company in 1980 as a financial analyst after earning a master's degree in business administration from the University of Chicago. He assumed his current position in 2008. As vice chairman, Watson will add Corporate Compliance and Policy, Government and Public Affairs to his broad portfolio of responsibilities that includes Business Development, Mergers and Acquisitions, Strategic Planning, Procurement and the Project Resources Company, which supports the development of major capital projects with Chevron.
Since joining the company, Watson has held positions of increasing responsibility. He was appointed president of Chevron Canada Ltd. in January 1996 and in February 1998 became vice president, Strategic Planning, for Chevron Corporation. Watson served as the integration executive for the merger of Chevron and Texaco, and in October 2001 he was named vice president and chief financial officer of the corporation. He became president of Chevron International Exploration and Production in 2005, where he oversaw the company's production and exploration activities outside the United States.
James, 54, will assume the expanded responsibility of executive vice president of Chevron Corporation, overseeing the company's Legal, Corporate Governance, Human Resources and Security organizations. James joined Chevron in 2002 after serving as assistant attorney general in charge of the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Earlier in his career, James practiced law at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C., where he chaired the firm's worldwide antitrust and trade regulation practice.
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