IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 21, 2014--
Stephen D. Pryor, president, ExxonMobil Chemical Company and vice
president of Exxon
Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), has elected to retire on January 1,
2015, after more than 44 years of service.
It is anticipated that the board of directors of Exxon Mobil Corporation
will appoint Neil A. Chapman as president of ExxonMobil Chemical Company
and elect him a vice president of the corporation, effective Jan. 1,
2015. Chapman is currently senior vice president, Polymers, ExxonMobil
Chemical Company.
Pryor, 64, joined Mobil Corporation in 1971 and has held a number of
financial and managerial positions in the United States, Cyprus, the
United Kingdom and New Zealand. In 1993, he was appointed vice
president, Mobil Chemical Company and general manager, Plastics Division.
In 1996, he became president, Mobil Asia Pacific and in 1998, executive
vice president responsible for Mobil’s international downstream
business. Following the merger between Exxon and Mobil, he was appointed
president of ExxonMobil Lubricants & Specialties Company, and in 2002
became executive vice president, ExxonMobil Chemical Company. He was
appointed president of ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Company in 2004 and
president of ExxonMobil Chemical Company in 2008.
Pryor was born in New York, NY. He holds a bachelor’s degree in biology
from Lafayette College and a master’s degree in business administration
from Harvard University.
Chapman, 52, joined Esso Chemical in 1984 at the Esso refinery in
Fawley, UK. He advanced through a series of engineering, operations,
planning and marketing roles in various chemicals affiliates in the
United Kingdom, Belgium, United States and Hong Kong.
After the merger, Chapman was Chemicals sales manager in Asia Pacific
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, 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 to his current role in 2011.
Chapman was born in Stoke-on-Trent, England. He received his bachelor’s
degree in chemical engineering from Surrey University, England.
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