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Rex Tillerson

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A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Rex Tillerson earned a B.S. degree in civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin before joining Exxon Company, U.S.A., in 1975 as a production engineer. He held several engineering, technical, and supervisory assignments in the EUSA Production Department throughout Texas and, in 1987, was named business development manager in the EUSA Natural Gas Department, where his responsibilities included developing long-range plans for commercialization of Alaska and Canadian Beaufort Sea gas. In 1989, he became general manager of EUSA's Central Production Division, responsible for oil and gas production operations throughout a large portion of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Kansas. Mr. Tillerson moved to Dallas, Texas, in 1992 as production adviser to Exxon Corporation and then to Florham Park, New Jersey, as coordinator of affiliate gas sales in Exxon Co., International. Three years later he was named president of Exxon Yemen Inc. and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc., and in 1998, he became vice president of Exxon Ventures (CIS) Inc. and president of Exxon Neftegas Limited. In those roles, he was responsible for Exxon's holdings in Russia and the Caspian Sea, as well as the Sakhalin I Consortium operations offshore Sakhalin Island, Russia. In 1999, he became executive vice president of ExxonMobil Development Company. Mr. Tillerson was named senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation in 2001 and was elected president of the corporation and member of the board of directors in March 2004. He assumed his current position January 1, 2006. Mr. Tillerson is a member of the boards of the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S.-Russia Business Council, the United Negro College Fund, a member of the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, and a member of the Engineering Foundation Advisory Council for the University of Texas at Austin and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

 
 

 

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