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...In 2011, shareholders put Cairn Energy in the doghouse for awarding a termination payout to Sir Bill Gammell, when he moved from being chief executive to chairman....
...This is important for sentiment as there were previously talks in the market that the insurance would try everything to avoid paying the bill....
...When founder Sir Bill Gammell retired, Cairn lost its swashbuckling entrepreneur in the mould of Tullow’s Aidan Heavey....
...“A company like Thomas Cook has a £900m annual fuel bill against a profit base of £325m....
...The systematic Mr Heavey had a response more sanguine than the disdain such routs elicit from many company bosses....
...“By the end of the year all these bills will be before parliament,” Ms Muloni said....
...Moreover, both Aidan Heavey of Tullow and Sir Bill Gammell of Cairn have been left twiddling their thumbs by foreign governments, as trading updates underlined on Thursday....
...Sir Bill Gammell, Cairn’s chief executive, says the company’s success in overcoming those obstacles, with the pipeline set to be completed around the turn of the year, shows that smaller companies can complete...
...Sir Martin Sorrell at the WPP advertising company; Cairn Energy’s Sir Bill Gammell; and Paul Walker at the Sage software group....
...Among long-serving bosses of British blue-chips, only Sir Bill Gammell of Cairn Energy and Aidan Heavey of Tullow Oil have edged past “Sir” Gareth, and that is mostly down to their recent oil-fuelled sprint...
...Among long-serving FTSE 100 bosses, only Sir Bill Gammell of Cairn Energy and Aidan Heavey of Tullow Oil have edged past “Sir” Gareth and that is mostly down to their shares’ recent oil-fuelled sprint....
...His rivals included fellow Irishman Aidan Heavey, founder of Tullow Oil; Miguel Gellert Krigsner, the Brazilian cosmetics king; and Kumar Mangalam Birla, the Indian conglomerate boss....
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