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Dr. P.P. (Daru) Darukhanavala is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Group Digital Business for BP Amoco. He is responsible for actively advancing the global e-business agenda in BP Amoco and is the key interface for introducing leading edge e-technology service and product suppliers into BP Amoco worldwide. He led the IT integration programs for the merger of BP and Amoco and for the Arco acquisition. BP Amoco is one of the world's largest companies with over 80,000 employees and operations in 100 countries.



Previously, Dr. Darukhanavala was Director of Global IT Services for the BP Group responsible for the rollout of the Common Operating Environment (COE) project worldwide and was IT Functional Chief in BP-Exploration. Dr. Darukhanavala's previous assignments include CIO for BP-Alaska, Director of BP-Exploration Business Systems in the US, Manager of the Corporate Supercomputing Facility and Head of the Corporate Management Science Group for Standard Oil (Ohio). He has also worked as a consultant on several projects in the industrial and health care area. Dr. Darukhanavala holds Ph.D. and MS degrees in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

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Dr. P. P. (Daru) Darukhanavala is VP & Chief Technology Officer, Digital and Communications Technology for BP. He leads a team responsible for the fast and efficient matching of external technology innovation to BP’s business requirements using a VC-type approach to rapid adoption. His team acts as change agent for the BP group in applying digital technologies and services to force major business process transformation as well as cost efficiencies across all of the business segments. Typical ‘game changing’ initiatives are expected to exceed $50m annual impact every year. The team accelerates adoption of new technology by hosting a series of executive education and awareness programs aimed at increasing senior executive level awareness of the business possibilities created by emerging digital technology trends.
As VP, IT Integration, Daru led the IT integration programmes for the BP-Amoco merger and the Arco acquisition, which collectively targeted a bottom line synergy of over $500 million in annual bottom line IT cost reduction.
Previously, Daru was Director, Global IT Services for the BP Group, responsible for establishing standard IT infrastructure services world-wide. Other assignments included IT Functional Chief for BP Exploration globally based in London and CIO for BP Exploration in the Continental US and Alaska.
Before the merger with BP, Daru was Director, Corporate Supercomputing Center and Head of the Corporate Management Science Group for The Standard Oil Co. He has also worked as a consultant on several projects in the industrial and health care arenas and as an adjunct professor of management at several US universities.
Daru received his PhD and MS degrees in Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/crti/kin/nov2007/documents/daru.pdf