IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2018--
Rob Franklin, president of ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company, has
announced his intention to retire, effective March 1, 2018, after more
than 35 years of service.
The board of directors of Exxon
Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) has appointed Peter Clarke as president
of ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company and elected him as a vice
president of the corporation. Clarke is currently vice president,
international gas, ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company, and lead
country manager for ExxonMobil businesses in the U.K.
Franklin, 60, was appointed president, ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing
Company effective March 1, 2013, and elected as a vice president of the
corporation, effective May 1, 2009.
Franklin joined Mobil North Sea Ltd. in 1981 in Aberdeen, Scotland, and
has held a variety of technical and managerial positions in exploration,
production and gas marketing. In 1999, he was appointed vice president
for European gas marketing for Mobil Corporation, and in 2001 was named
vice president of new business development for ExxonMobil Gas & Power
Marketing Company in Houston, Texas.
He was appointed executive assistant to the chairman of Exxon Mobil
Corporation in 2007 and in 2008 was named vice president for Europe,
Russia and Caspian for ExxonMobil Production Company. He was appointed
president of ExxonMobil Upstream Ventures in 2009.
Franklin was born in Culcheth, England, and is a graduate of University
of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a bachelor’s degree in civil
engineering.
Clarke 52, joined Esso Ireland in 1987 and has gained broad experience
in the global natural gas business. He has held various management
positions in ExxonMobil's natural gas and LNG marketing organizations
and has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and the U.S.
Earlier in Clarke’s career, he held various technical and managerial
positions in the downstream including supply and trading in Ireland,
France and U.K. In 2014 he was appointed vice president, Asia Pacific,
Africa & Americas, ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company, overseeing
the marketing of pipeline natural gas and natural gas commercialization
efforts across the three regions. He has also been responsible for
ExxonMobil’s global power portfolio and, as planning manager for
ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Company, was responsible for global
strategy, planning and business analysis. He was appointed to his
current position in 2016.
Clarke was born in Dublin, Ireland, and is a graduate from University
College Dublin with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
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