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The ConocoPhillips/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership Lecture

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Michael J. Dolan, Senior VP of Exxon Mobil Corporation, presents “Engineering Success through Ethical Leadership" as the keynote lecturer for the Fall 2010 ConocoPhillips/C. J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership.

PROGRAM HISTORY

In recognition of the outstanding career achievements of Georgia Tech chemical engineering graduate C. J. “Pete” Silas, The Phillips Petroleum Foundation awarded a grant to the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering to develop the ConocoPhillips/C. J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership. Ethics, leadership, and quality, founded on the basics of strong communication skills and professionalism, are regarded as essential components of an engineering education. This program spotlights the importance of ethics and leadership by focusing on technical and business decisions that have ethical ramifications. These topics and related areas are integrated into the required chemical engineering courses and are addressed in an annual public symposium with prominent industrialists and ethicists leading discussions on current issues of technology and ethics.

MICHAEL J. DOLAN

Michael J. Dolan is senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation in Irving, Texas.

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 of the Corporation in April 2008.

Mr. Dolan is a Member of the Board of the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council, the U.S.-China Business Council, and the American Petroleum Institute. He is on the Board of Trustees of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Dolan also served as director of the American Chemistry Council, the Society of Chemical Industry, and 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.

PREVIOUS LECTURERS

John Brock, ChE '70, MSChE '71
Chairman and CEO, Coca-Cola Enterprises

James J. Mulva
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ConocoPhillips

C. Judson King
Provost and Senior Vice President – Academic Affairs, Emeritus, The University of California System

Elsa Reichmanis
Bell Labs Fellow and Director of the Materials Research Department, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.
Senior VP & Chief Science and Technology Officer, DuPont

Lynn Elsenhans
President and CEO of Shell Oil Products U.S., President Shell Oil Company, and Country Chair for Shell U.S.

Charles “Garry” Betty
President and Chief Executive Officer, EarthLink, Inc.

William G. Paul
Attorney with Crowe & Dunlevy and President Emeritus, American Bar Association

Raymond V. Gilmartin
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Company, Inc.

Robert W. Galvin
Chairman of the Executive Committee of Motorola, Inc.

Shaun F. O’Malley
Chairman Emeritus and Chairman of the Ethics Resource Center of Pricewaterhouse, LLP

C.J. “Pete” Silas
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Phillips Petroleum Company

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  • Created:08/10/2010
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  • Modified:10/07/2016