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Imperial Oil Limited has reported the appointment of B.W. (Brad) Corson as president, effective September 17, 2019.
Chairman and chief executive officer, R.M. (Rich) Kruger, has declared his plans to retire at the end of December, 2019. Mr. Corson will assume the role of chairman, president and CEO of Imperial Oil Limited on January 1, 2020.
About Corson
Mr. Corson, a native of Woodstock, Illinois, is a graduate of Auburn University’s chemical engineering program. He joined Exxon in 1983 in New Orleans, Louisiana as a project engineer. Over his 36 year career with the company, he has held a variety of technical, operations, commercial and managerial assignments around the world. In addition to multiple assignments across the United States, he has also held key leadership positions in Hong Kong and London. In 2009, Mr. Corson was appointed vice president, ExxonMobil Production Company, with responsibilities for oil and gas production activities in Europe and the Caspian regions.
In 2015, Mr. Corson was appointed president, ExxonMobil Upstream Ventures and vice president of ExxonMobil Corporation where he was responsible for overseeing ExxonMobil’s global upstream acquisition and divestment programs. Under his leadership, ExxonMobil made key strategic acquisitions in the Permian Basin, Papua New Guinea, Mozambique and Brazil.
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