He's an engineer by education from Texas, been with Exxon since 1975 and worked his way up to CEO. He's soon to retire so that's why they thought he might be interested. Department of State has a lot of organizational and financial issues (missing money) and he has the management experience of a very very large organization so this might also be a plus. He's a nice low key guy, devout Christian who attends church and bible study every week. I'm not saying he's better than others, just has a different background. HUGE. And in terms of the corporate business world, when you say CEO of ExxonMobil, you get tingles, because in our world, that's like The King.