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Mr. Dolan joined Mobil Oil Corporation in 1980 at the Paulsboro, New Jersey, research laboratory. Over the next 13 years, he worked in a variety of... engineering and managerial positions supporting Mobil's worldwide refineries. He joined Mobil's worldwide petrochemicals division in 1993 in Houston, Texas. Mr. Dolan progressed through a variety of strategic planning and business management positions in the aromatics, olefins and polyethylene businesses before becoming vice president and general manager for petrochemicals in the Americas in 1998. Following the Exxon and Mobil merger, in 2000 Mr. Dolan became the Middle East and Africa regional director of ExxonMobil Chemical Company located in Brussels, Belgium. In 2001, he moved to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he served as executive vice president for ExxonMobil Saudi Arabia. He returned to the United States in 2003 as deputy to the president of ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Company in Fairfax, Virginia. From September 2004, he was president of ExxonMobil Chemical Company and vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation until his appointment as senior vice president to the Corporation in April 2008. Mr. Dolan is a director of the American Chemistry Council, the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council and the Society of Chemical Industry. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Worcester Polytechnic Institute , Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Dolan is active in the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Celebration of Reading Program and in the United Way. He served on the leadership team for the 2005-2006 United Way of Texas Gulf Coast Campaign and is the Vice Chairman of Development for the Sam Houston Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Dolan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from WPI and a master of business administration degree from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Frances Daly Fergusson served as president of Vassar College from 1986 to 2006. A graduate of Wellesley College, Fergusson earned her A.M. and Ph.D.... in Art History at Harvard University before starting her teaching career at Newton College. In 1975, she began teaching at University of Massachusetts at Boston, where she later became an assistant chancellor. Fergusson continued her career in academic administration from 1982 until 1986 at Bucknell University, where she served as Provost and Vice President of the university. She left Bucknell to become Vassar's president. Fergusson has published extensively in the field of architectural history, including an award-winning article on the iconography of St. Charles' Church in Vienna. An avid and effective fundraiser, she has raised more than $750 million for Vassar College. Her administration has overseen extensive renovation of the campus, including refurbishment of the library, creation of a new art center, and construction of a modern drama and film center. Both the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and the Center for Drama and Film were designed by renowned architect, Cesar Pelli.
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Since 1996, Ralph Whitworth has been a Principal of Relational Investors LLC, a registered investment advisor. He is the former Chairman of the Board... of Apria Healthcare Group Inc., and Waste Management, Inc. He is also a former director of Mattel, Inc., Tektronix, Inc., and Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. He is currently a director of Sovereign Bancorp, Titan Investment Partners and Sprint Nextel.
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