Andrew Swiger to Retire as Senior Vice President of Exxon Mobil Corporation; Kathryn Mikells Elected Senior Vice President & ...
July 19 2021 - 8:21AM
Business Wire
Andrew Swiger, senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation
(NYSE:XOM), has announced his intention to retire effective Sept. 1
after more than 43 years of service. The board of directors has
elected Kathryn Mikells, a former executive with Diageo, United
Airlines and Xerox, as senior vice president and chief financial
officer, effective Aug. 9.
“I’d like to thank Andy, both personally and on behalf of the
board of directors, for his many years of dedicated service, and
wish him all the best in his retirement,” said Darren Woods,
chairman and chief executive officer. “We welcome Kathy to
ExxonMobil and look forward to the perspective and experience she
brings as we work together to deliver on our strategies and
increase shareholder value.”
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/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.
Mikells joins ExxonMobil from Diageo plc, where she 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, ADT,
Nalco and United Airlines. During her time at United Airlines, she
was also vice president of investor relations and treasurer.
Mikells holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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