The former boss of Malaysian national oil company (NOC) Petronas, Tan Sri Wan Zulkiflee, will be removed from ExxonMobil’s board just four months after being appointed, after investors rejected him in a historic vote.
The activist investor who just scored a major victory at ExxonMobil this week says he learned a key lesson he brought to the boardroom battle from a failed coal mine he tried to launch in the mid-2000s.
ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods was dealt a stunning defeat by shareholders when a tiny activist investment firm snagged at least two board seats and promised to push the crude driller to diversify beyond oil and fight climate change.
