Yale School of Management - Alumni Leaders

"As a truly global corporation with over 60% of our business outside of the US, the ability of employees to work with and live among people of different nationalities and cultures is critical to ExxonMobil. Yale SOM was a pioneer in focusing on the importance of understanding and developing people skills in order to become an effective and successful manager. In addition, the finance and quantitative analysis courses provided me with the tools to succeed in an environment which has an exceedingly thorough and rigorous approach to finance."

Tom Halsey joined the Treasurer's Department of Exxon Corporation in 1981 upon graduating from the Yale School of Management. In 1984, he began a series of assignments with Exxon Chemical Company, spending four years in Brussels where he served as financial manager (CFO) of Exxon Chemical Belgium/Middle East/Africa.

He returned to the U.S. in 1989 to become the treasurer of Exxon Capital Corporation, Exxon's principal financing subsidiary. Tom moved on within the treasurer's department to become manager of money markets and trading, with responsibility for the corporation's $5 billion commercial paper program.

As part of the 1999 merger with Mobil Corporation, he headed up the Global Cash Management Transition Team which developed the template for a global cash management structure for the "new" company which was implemented after the merger. Effective with the merger, Tom became manager, capital markets, with responsibility for the capital markets activities of Exxon Mobil Corporation. He retired in 2005 but Tom maintains communication with his former colleagues to stay abreast of the industry and its challenges.

With a market capitalization of over $300 billion, ExxonMobil is the world's largest non-government owned petroleum and petrochemical company with activities in over 200 countries and territories.