Doug conducts technology scouting and venturing as part of a team to create new business and technology opportunities for ExxonMobil. He advanced Open Process Automation as a member of the project’s business team. From the early 2000s, Doug was a Senior Scientific Advisor at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research, guiding new science development, and connecting ExxonMobil to external science-related business opportunities, including hydrocarbon processing, and digital and data strategies.
Doug’s expertise is in process modeling, plant and technical computing, optimization, and the chemistry of complex systems. He played many roles in the development of ExxonMobil’s Molecule Management science and technology base, and managed the technology portfolio that developed and commercialized many of these capabilities. A Chemical Engineer by training with degrees from U. Delaware and U. Pennsylvania, Doug joined Mobil in 1980.