Samuel J. Palmisano Elected to ExxonMobil Board
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IRVING, Texas -- Jan. 25, 2006--Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) announced today that its board of directors has elected Samuel J. Palmisano to the board. Mr. Palmisano is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of IBM Corporation.
Mr. Palmisano has held a number of key leadership positions during his IBM career, including senior vice president and group executive for IBM's Enterprise Systems Group and Personal Systems Group. Mr. Palmisano also played a key role in creating and leading IBM's services business, rising to become senior vice president and group executive for IBM Global Services, and built the worldwide operations of the largest and most diversified IT services organization in the industry. He also served as IBM's senior managing director of operations for IBM Japan, and as president of the Integrated Systems Solutions Corp, now part of IBM Global Services. He joined IBM in 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Mr. Palmisano is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University.
In recognition of his leadership role as co-chair of the Council of Competitiveness' National Innovation Initiative, as well as his many business accomplishments, Mr. Palmisano was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in September 2005.
ExxonMobil is the world's largest publicly traded energy company, operating in about 200 countries and territories. In 2004, the company had net income of $25.3 billion.
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