The End To An Era – ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM)’s Vice President And Controller Retires

ExxoMobil (NYSE: XOM) announced yesterday, Monday August 4^th, that its Vice President and Controller Patrick T. Mulva would be retiring as of September 1^st.

Mr. Mulva has been with the gasoline company for over 38 years, having joined the refinery back in 1976 as a financial analyst. This was when the company was still Exxon Company USA, before it had joined with Mobil. Mr. Mulva held many financial positions in both upstream and downstream company businesses, as well as management positions of short range planning for the ExxonMobil’s downstream operations in the United States.

Mr. Mulva has been served as assistant controller for Exxon Company International since 1990, as well as the finance director for the company’s operations in Malaysia since the following year of 1991.

He returned to the United States and was appointed Exxon Company USA’s controller for upstream operations in 1993, then later became ExxonMobil’s assistant controller. Then in 1996 Mr. Mulva was promoted to the position of director of Exxon’s affiliate company in Canada, Imperial Oil Limited. In 1998 Mr. Mulva became controller, then senior vice president of finance and administration.

Mulva then became the company’s vice president of investor relations in 2002 and corporate secretary of ExxonMobile Corporation at the company’s headquarters, which is located in Irving, Texas. In 2004, Mr. Mulva was finally elected by the company’s executive board to his current position of Vice President.

Hailing from Green Bay, Wisconsin, Mr. Mulva earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame, and his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Before joining ExxonMobil, Mr. Mulva served in the Air Force for three years.

Mr. Mulva also currently serves as the chairman on finance of the American Petroleum Institute’s general committee. Additionally, he is a member of the Financial Executives International group and its corporate reporting committee. Mr. Mulva is also on the Business School Advisory Council at the University of Texas at San Antonio.