Executive Profile
Monday, July 8, 1996
Name: Thomas Bega
Age: 46
Position: Area superintendent, BHP Hawaii refinery
First job: Groundskeeper
Favorite pastime: Working out, reading and family activities
In the future, Bega sees the refinery benefiting more from employee suggestions.
"We're getting a lot of hourly employees involved in the decision-making loop," he said. "We've been working on this for the past two or three years and it's starting to pick up speed."
Bega was serving as manager of the BHP Gas Company's synthetic natural gas plant at the Campbell Industrial Park. Prior to that he worked at the BHP refinery. He spent four years in the Air Force before joining the refinery in 1974.
Bega and his wife, Barbara, live in Mililani. They have four children: Brandon, 20; Jennifer, 17; Sharon, 14; and Nicholas, 12.