Energy Magazine September 2021 | Page 14

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GLOBAL EXECUTIVE BIDS FAREWELL TO

AFTER FOUR DECADES OF LOYAL SERVICE

Name : Andrew Swiger Job Title : Senior Vice President Company : Exxon Mobil Corporation

Andrew Swiger is set to retire as Senior Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corporation on September 1 , after more than 43 years of service .

Swiger joined Mobil in 1978 as an operations engineer in Morgan City , Louisiana , after receiving a petroleum engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines .
He held a series of upstream and corporate assignments before moving to the downstream in 1996 as General Manager of the Jurong refinery and petrochemical plant in Singapore . In 1999 , he became President and General Manager of Mobil Oil Canada and was later appointed Corporate Production Advisor at ExxonMobil ’ s headquarters in Irving , Texas .
In 2001 , Swiger moved to London as production vice president for Africa , and in 2003 was appointed production vice president for the Europe / Caspian /
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Russia region . He was named Executive Vice President of ExxonMobil Production Company in 2004 and became President of ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing in 2006 . Swiger was elected Senior Vice President and a member of the management committee in 2009 and became principal financial officer in 2013 .
The board of directors has elected Kathryn Mikells as his successor .
Mikells joins ExxonMobil from Diageo , where she has held the position of Chief Financial Officer since 2015 and was a member of the board of directors . In this role , she was accountable for strategy , investor relations , supply chain , procurement and finance . Previously she was Chief Financial Officer at Xerox ,
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