IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2017--
Exxon
Mobil Corporation’s (NYSE:XOM) board of directors has elected Neil
Chapman to the position of senior vice president and member of the
corporation’s management committee. As successor to Chapman, the board
also appointed John Verity as president of ExxonMobil Chemical Company.
Both assignments are effective Jan. 1, 2018.
Chapman, 55, is currently president of the ExxonMobil Chemical Company.
Verity, 59, is senior vice president of polymers, ExxonMobil Chemical
Company.
Other members of the management committee are Darren Woods, chairman and
chief executive officer, and senior vice presidents Mark Albers, Michael
Dolan, Andrew Swiger and Jack Williams.
“Neil’s election results from the company’s planning process that is
designed to ensure management committee leadership continuity,” Woods
said. “Disciplined succession planning is critically important to the
long-term success of the company and a competitive advantage for the
corporation.”
Chapman joined Esso Chemical in 1984 at the Esso refinery in Fawley,
U.K. He has held a range of senior engineering, operations, planning and
marketing roles in various chemicals affiliates in the United Kingdom,
Belgium, United States and Hong Kong.
Following the merger of Exxon and Mobil, Chapman was Chemicals sales
manager in the Asia Pacific region and project executive of the Fujian
Integrated Refining and Ethylene Joint Venture Project in China. In 2002
he joined the Fuels Marketing division as head of ExxonMobil Aviation
International Ltd. in the United Kingdom before becoming vice president,
industrial and wholesale fuels based in the United States.
Chapman became vice president for the global polyethylene business unit
of ExxonMobil Chemical Company in 2005 and was appointed executive
assistant to the chairman of Exxon Mobil Corporation in 2006. He became
president of ExxonMobil Global Services Company in 2007 and was
appointed senior vice president for polymers with ExxonMobil Chemical
Company in 2011. He has been in his current role since 2015.
Chapman was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England. He received a bachelor’s
degree in chemical engineering from Surrey University, England.
Verity joined Exxon Chemical in 1980 and held sales, marketing and
strategic planning roles in its polyethylene business in Europe. He held
various management roles at the butyl rubber plant at Fawley, U.K., and
moved to the U.S. in 1998 in a planning assignment in the polyethylene
business. In 2000, he became the Americas marketing manager for the
ExxonMobil Chemical’s polyethylene business. He was appointed president
of Univation Technologies, LLC in 2001.
He returned to ExxonMobil Chemical in 2005 as vice president of research
and development. He later served as vice president of the polyethylene
business, vice president of the polyolefins business and was given added
responsibility for the adhesion and solution performance plastics
businesses units as vice president of plastics and resins. He has served
in his current role since 2015.
Verity was born in Bradford, England. He received a bachelor’s degree in
chemistry from Oxford University, England.
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