Chris Romano

● Defined and evolved the enterprise data strategy, creating multi‑year roadmaps aligned to business priorities and digital transformation objectives. Efforts drove improved data-driven decision-making across global business units, representing greater than $30B of annual spend and enabling greater than $1B of value capture. ● Established and operationalized comprehensive data governance program (institutionalizing ownership, stewardship, metrics and standards, accelerating ease of use and driving greater adoption of data assets). ● Led global organization of 100+ data and analytics professionals delivering foundational data platform capabilities, data products, advanced analytics solutions leveraging AI/ML workflows and improved governance to support enterprise-wide planning, operations and analysis. ● Launched process intelligence center of excellence leveraging Celonis process mining, driving over $200M in value and embedding data‑driven process optimization across the enterprise. ● Spearheaded development of the semantic (business intelligence) layer and Generative BI capabilities to enable conversational analytics and modernize the analytics operating model – this work is reframing the approach to delivery of analytics insights across the enterprise and is informing continuing evolution of the sizing and skilling of our workforce.

● Directed global team of 50+ senior architects, engineers and data scientists delivering enterprise architecture, data engineering and analytics services across the corporation. ● Developed enterprise data strategy and multi‑year roadmaps to maximize value of data assets and accelerate digital transformation. ● Designed and commercialized enterprise Snowflake platform architecture, enabling governed data products and scalable cloud analytics – drove strategic alignment and commercialized game-changing architecture for Snowflake data platform to streamline sourcing and provisioning of data, enabling use of data across the full spectrum of operational and analytics use cases. ● Led $20M transformation program modernizing sales, marketing and pricing capabilities. ● Influenced senior executives to align on enterprise data and analytics priorities, responsible AI guardrails, data governance mandates and operating model changes.

● Extended enterprise data architecture by deploying an event‑driven “data services” model that enabled rapid, scalable and reusable data capabilities across the product solutions business, delivering greater than $50M in cost savings and accelerating digital transformation efforts. ● Led the creation of the product solutions company’s first unified data management and analytics strategy, establishing the architectural patterns, governance principles and operating model that was later scaled across the enterprise. ● Implemented data governance program that improved data quality, consistency and trust in critical datasets – directly enabling high‑value decisions in inventory optimization, financial stewardship and operational planning. ● Championed adoption of modern data engineering practices and development of reusable data products, reducing cycle times, improving quality and consistency of analytics efforts and enabling more sustainable business outcomes.

● Led 30+ person cross‑functional team in ExxonMobil’s first enterprise‑scale deployment of native SAP HANA, establishing the modern data and analytics architecture that supported the product solutions company’s operations – partnered with executives to align transformation priorities and secure the necessary investment in this effort. ● Directed the design and commercialization of advanced analytics capabilities that delivered greater than $200M in measurable value, enabling real‑time insights and improved decision‑making capabilities. ● Coordinated design and development of new analytics capabilities with greater than $200M of value capture - architected and implemented enterprise earnings model that became the backbone of the company’s value chain re-design, influencing pricing, supply and margin optimization decisions across the business.

● Spearheaded financial analytics for the newly formed product solutions business, integrating disparate datasets and reporting structures to provide new unified views of the company’s performance. ● Designed and implemented new operating expense stewardship data product to overcome source system limitations and established standardized metrics and definitions to drive clarity and consistency across the enterprise. ● Partnered with business and IT stakeholders to improve data quality, reconcile financial discrepancies and strengthen governance around key financial datasets used for executive decision‑making.

● Generated $1M of cash tax savings by resolving receivables issues with Colombian affiliate. ● Directed a team of analysts responsible for planning of Aviation business results to managers. ● Coordinated audit compliance, including development and maintenance of effective business controls compliance programs.

• Managed ExxonMobil’s affiliate finance business in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico; responsible for regional finance plans (management of capital structure and financing arrangements of affiliates); developed swaps proposal for Venezuelan affiliate payments to minimize exchange rate impacts, thereby protecting $100M+ of cash flows and saving $3M in currency conversion costs

• Coordinated financial close process for U.S. Downstream division and worked with regional financial reporting groups to validate results for 200+ affiliates; coordinated earnings watchlist and overall accounting policy guidance for U.S. Downstream

• Directed team of accountants/analysts in management of critical accounting processes for ExxonMobil's 1000+ U.S. service station chain; responsible for accounting processes for >$400M in monthly gross sales of motor fuel, convenience store products and services