Rex Tillerson

Male

White

Coarse public-record coding; race is a noisy, interpretive category.

not established

No specific ethnic heritage is established in the sources used; coded.ethnicities carries the broad "European American" tag for the facet.

not established

No immigration history is documented; treated as multi-generational American absent evidence otherwise.

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Continuous Exxon employment from 1975 to retirement at the end of 2016.

Salaried at Exxon continuously from 1975, a single-employer career with no personal venture or capital at risk.

not established

No student debt or other debt is documented in the sources used.

The hardship was imposed, not chosen. There was nothing to fall back on.

No period of chosen austerity is documented.

His father, Bobby Joe Tillerson, was an executive with the Boy Scouts of America. His mother, Patty Sue (Patton) Tillerson, is not described by occupation in the sources used.

Neither parent was self-employed.

His father held a salaried organizational job rather than running a business.

not established

Not established in the sources used.

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Not established in the sources used.

A University of Texas Longhorn Band scholarship, earned through his high school percussion work, helped pay for college.

Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and raised in Vernon and Huntsville, Texas, and Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Several family moves across Texas and Oklahoma, tied to his father's Boy Scouts of America job, including a move to Huntsville.

not established

No documented identity-based barrier.

Scouting. He became an Eagle Scout in 1965 and a Distinguished Eagle Scout, and served as National President of the Boy Scouts of America from 2010 to 2012.

not established

No single sponsor or referral into Exxon is documented in the sources used.

ExxonMobil (Exxon Company, U.S.A. from 1975), his only employer through the end of 2016.

23

Joined Exxon in 1975, the year he turned 23.

The Boy Scouts of America, first as a Scout, then as national president from 2010 to 2012 while he was CEO.

Ran Exxon Neftegas and the Russia/CIS ventures from 1998, then served as president and director from 2004, before becoming chairman and CEO in 2006.

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Full career at Exxon / ExxonMobil, before his move to government service.

B.S. in civil engineering, University of Texas at Austin (1975).

not established

Not established in the sources used.

not established

Not established in the sources used.

A public-university engineering degree followed directly by an engineering job at Exxon, then promotion through operating and international posts.

not established

Not applicable in the founder sense; income came from Exxon salary, bonus and stock.

Salary, bonus and restricted/deferred Exxon stock from one employer across a 41-year career. At departure he held more than 600,000 Exxon shares and about 2 million deferred shares.

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No independent venture attempted; one unbroken corporate career.

53

Age at his January 1, 2006 succession as chairman and CEO.

23

31

From joining Exxon in 1975 to becoming CEO in 2006.

Oil and gas executive management

40500000

Wikipedia reports a $40.5 million compensation package for 2012, which was not checked against that year's proxy statement. Exxon's 2017 proxy statement, the filing read directly, shows $33,096,312 for 2014, $27,297,458 for 2015 and $27,393,567 for 2016.

Proxy statement

High salaried income plus large deferred stock awards, not an owned, appreciating business. About $180 million in deferred shares was reported at his 2017 departure.

Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil from 2006 to 2016, National President of the Boy Scouts of America (2010-2012), elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2013, and US Secretary of State from February 2017 to March 2018.

31

From joining Exxon in 1975 to the 2006 CEO appointment.

Capped

A salaried public-company executive with board-set pay, not a founder's open-ended stake.

Wikipedia reports that the US Treasury assessed a civil penalty against ExxonMobil in July 2017 over Russia sanctions, relating to dealings during Tillerson's time as CEO, and that the New York Attorney General's office investigated Exxon's climate-related disclosures. Both matters were company-level; Tillerson's own role was the subject of press reporting and is not adjudicated here. How either matter was ultimately resolved is not covered in the sources used.

After

The reported matters arose during his tenure as CEO, after he had reached the top job.

Unrelated

The reported matters concern company conduct during his tenure and did not produce his path to the CEO role.

Engineer, Company man, Russia-experienced

Light coding from how he is commonly described in press coverage cited on Wikipedia.

Press

After

His public profile formed mostly after he became CEO in 2006.

Press reporting around the company's Russia ties, including a 2011 Arctic agreement with Rosneft and the 2013 Order of Friendship he received from Russia, was reported as contested by outside critics. This is reporting about the company during his tenure and is attributed to the press, not asserted here.