Neil Chapman Elected ExxonMobil Senior Vice President; John Verity Appointed President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company
December 01 2017 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
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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