Aleida Rios

Greetings

Dear USHCC Members & Friends,

For more than a century, bp has been committed to supporting the U.S. economy especially in the communities where our people live and work. As of 2020, bp employs nearly 10,000 people and supports over 125,000 jobs in and across the U.S. We are proud of our history in America and the longstanding commitment to the U.S.

bp’s commitment to America goes beyond safely providing the energy and jobs that drive economic prosperity. As our new purpose states, we are reimagining energy for people and our planet. And after more than a century defined by oil and gas, we have set our strategy to become a very different energy company in the next decade. A critical foundation of that strategy is a sustainability framework with three focus areas: getting to net zero, caring for our planet, and improving people’s lives.

Being a Latina woman and a senior vice president in Innovation & Engineering at bp, I strongly believe in the important work and mission of USHCC and its alignment to bp’s strategy. We know the more than 4.7 million Hispanic-owned businesses represented by the USHCC are a critical part of the U.S. economy today – and will be well into the future.

Supplier diversity is an area where our community and business investments truly intersect. bp is one of the first major corporations in the U.S. to create a formal program aimed at increasing supplier diversity.

Since 2018, bp has spent $1.3 billion with certified diverse suppliers across three diversity strands – minorities, women and veterans. And we remain committed to increasing our spend with diverse suppliers. Our aim is to spend $1 billion with certified diverse suppliers annually by 2025, and efforts like launching a global supplier diversity strategy, increasing our diverse supplier pipeline, and our coaching and mentoring diverse supplier development program will help us get there.

The quality of our work depends on our workforce, customers, partners and the communities we engage like the USHCC. Together we can reimagine energy for people and our planet.

Sincerely,

Aleida Rios

Senior Vice President Engineering bp America

Aleida Rios

Senior Vice President Engineering

bp America

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