Neil Chapman

Senior Vice President ExxonMobil

Last Reviewed: October 1, 2026

Executive Summary

Neil Chapman is a Senior Vice President of ExxonMobil and has sat on its Management Committee since 2018. A chemical engineer by career path, he joined Esso Chemical at the Fawley Refinery in the UK in 1984 and spent most of the next three decades in ExxonMobil’s chemicals business, culminating as President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company from 2015 to 2018. In July 2026 he was also elected a director of Exxon Mobil Corporation, now a subsidiary of the new parent ExxonMobil Holdings. ExxonMobil ranked No. 9 on the 2026 Fortune 500.

Career Highlights

• Senior Vice President of ExxonMobil since January 2018.
• President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company, 2015 to 2018.
• Senior Vice President, global polymers, ExxonMobil Chemical, from 2011.
• President of ExxonMobil Global Services Company from 2007.
• Joined Esso Chemical at the Fawley Refinery in 1984.

Professional Journey

Chapman, a native of Stoke-on-Trent, England, graduated from the University of Surrey and joined Esso Chemical Company at the Fawley Refinery in 1984. Before the 1999 Exxon-Mobil merger he held engineering, operations, planning and commercial roles in chemical affiliates in the UK, Belgium, the US and Hong Kong.

He then served as Asia Pacific polyolefins sales manager and project executive for the Fujian integrated refining and ethylene joint venture in China. From 2002 he ran aviation fuels marketing and later industrial and wholesale fuels, and in 2005 became vice president of ExxonMobil Chemical’s global polyethylene business. He was executive assistant to the chairman in 2006 and president of ExxonMobil Global Services Company from 2007.

Returning to ExxonMobil Chemical in 2011 as senior vice president for global polymers, he became its president in 2015, and in 2018 joined the corporation’s Management Committee as Senior Vice President. The University of Surrey awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2014.

Education

University of Surrey

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