Activist Exxon Director Has a Resume Behind Best-in-World Boast
- Goff has senior management experience in three main oil areas
- Dissident director joins after proxy fight led by Engine No. 1
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Before Greg Goff was elected as a dissident director to Exxon Mobil Corp.’s board, the oil company called him “unqualified.” Yet it’s hard to find many people who would agree with that assessment, least of all the man himself.
“I am the best oil executive in the world,” he told a room full of Wall Street analysts over a steak dinner about a decade ago, according to one of those present.