Paul Osgood

Paul Osgood

Paul Osgood is currently head of internal communications at BG Group, a global exploration and production and LNG company, where he has been leading the communications team for the acquisition of BG by Shell. Prior to this, he was global head of internal communications for Philips based in Amsterdam. He has also been corporate communications director for Colt Group S.A., a partner at Brunswick Group and led the communications practice at Hewitt Associates. Paul has a wide range of international experience in restructuring, M&A and post-merger integration, change management and digital internal communications. Paul’s early career was spent with NatWest Group where he was speechwriter to the chairman and chief executive and was responsible for developing leadership and employee communications for the RBS/NatWest acquisition process. 

Motivating and engaging employees through the mergers and acquisitions cycle

At $69.4 billion, Shell’s acquisition of BG Group was one of five global deals valued at over $50 billion Dollars in 2015 and the seventh largest M&A transaction ever in Europe.

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