Stephen Pryor to Retire as President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company; Expected Appointment of Neil Chapman as President of Exx...
November 21 2014 - 04:00PM
Business Wire
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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