Air bp has appointed Sonya Adams as managing director, Northern, Central and Western Europe. She will be responsible for Air bp's strategy and operations in the region and based at the company's global headquarters in Sunbury on Thames, UK. She reports to CEO Jon Platt.

Born and educated in Australia, Adams joined the BP Group in 2001 on its graduate training programme. She brings more than 17 years of fuels experience from her career in sales and marketing, supply, logistics and procurement roles. Having run both the customer facing and terminals and logistics businesses in Australia she has considerable expertise in transforming businesses that operate in intensely competitive and fast changing markets. For the past year, Adams has served as executive assistant to the BP Downstream CEO.

Adams says: “I am very excited to be joining a leading brand in the aviation fuel industry and working with such a great team of people. Air bp's history goes back over 90 years and, as the aviation industry transitions to a lower carbon future and embraces digitalisation, I am looking forward to working closely with our customers to ensure the continued growth of our business in Europe.”

Adams graduated with a BA in Business Marketing and Economics from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and has completed Executive Business Management programmes from the Australian Graduate School of Management and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago.