William W. George Elected to ExxonMobil Board


IRVING, Texas --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.

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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