William W. George Elected to ExxonMobil Board
IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2005--Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM)
announced today that shareholders elected William W. George to its board of
directors. Mr. George is professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business
School, and former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Medtronic,
Inc. With Mr. George's election, the ExxonMobil board stands at eleven directors,
nine of whom are non-employees.
Mr. George joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and chief operating officer.
He was elected chief executive officer in 1991 and served in that capacity through
2001. He was chairman of the board from 1996 to 2002, when he retired.
In 2004, Mr. George joined the faculty at Harvard Business School where he
teaches Leadership and Leadership Development. He was recently named one of
"The Top 25 Most Influential Business People of the Last 25 Years"
by PBS Nightly News. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Mr. George was professor
of Leadership and Governance at IMD International in Lausanne, Switzerland,
and executive-in-residence at Yale University's School of Management. He was
recently appointed as chairman of the Global Center for Leadership and Business
Ethics.
He serves as a director of Goldman Sachs and Novartis, and on the boards of
National Association of Corporate Directors and Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace.
Mr. George holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia
Tech, and an MBA from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar. He received
the Alumni Achievement Award from Harvard Business School and the Legend in
Leadership Award from Yale University.
ExxonMobil's other directors include Dr. Michael J. Boskin, T.M. Friedman professor
of Economics and senior fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; James
R. Houghton, chairman of the board, Corning Incorporated; William R. Howell,
chairman emeritus, J.C. Penney Company, Inc.; Dr. Reatha Clark King, former
chairman, board of trustees, General Mills Foundation; Philip E. Lippincott,
retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Scott Paper Company,
retired chairman of the board, Campbell Soup Company; Dr. Henry A. McKinnell,
Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Pfizer Inc.; Marilyn
Carlson Nelson, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Carlson Companies;
Lee R. Raymond, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Exxon Mobil
Corporation; Walter V. Shipley, retired chairman of the board, The Chase Manhattan
Corporation and The Chase Manhattan Bank; and Rex W. Tillerson, president, Exxon
Mobil Corporation.