Before the merger of Exxon and Mobil in November 1999, Mr. Longwell was senior vice president, member of the management committee and director of Exxon Corporation. His primary responsibilities included the corporation’s oil, gas, coal and minerals exploration and production activities. A native of Alexandria, La., Mr. Longwell graduated from Louisiana State University in 1963 with a petroleum engineering degree and began his career with Exxon as a drilling engineer in Exxon Company, U.S.A.’s production office in New Orleans. After a number of engineering and supervisory assignments in Louisiana, California and Texas, Mr. Longwell was named operations manager in Corpus Christi in 1974. Later that year, he moved to Exxon USA’s Western Production Division in Los Angeles as operations manager with responsibility for Exxon’s producing interests in Alaska, and in 1977 he became division manager. Mr. Longwell served as operations manager in the Production Department of Exxon USA in Houston from 1980 to 1983, when he was named vice president for the department with responsibility for the company’s U.S. production activities. In 1986 he moved to London as vice president of Exploration and Production in Europe. He returned to the U.S. later that year as executive assistant to the chairman and the president of Exxon Corporation in New York. Mr. Longwell became vice president of Exploration and Production for Exxon Company, International in Florham Park, N.J., in 1987, senior vice president in 1988 and executive vice president in 1990. He was named president of Exxon Company, U.S.A. in 1992. He was elected a senior vice president of the corporation effective January 1, 1995, and was elected a director in October 1995. He was named executive vice president of the corporation in 2001.