Artis Brown is the vice president of ExxonMobil’s Global Basestocks and Waxes business. Throughout his 28-year career with ExxonMobil, he has demonstrated his ability to successfully run multi-billion-dollar businesses and held assignments across the United States and Asia Pacific. He has experience working across a broad range of fields, including engineering, sales, marketing, supply chain, strategy, planning, manufacturing, organizational behavior, and diversity.
Brown started his career at ExxonMobil in Houston, Texas, as a project engineer in 1996 and was later promoted to senior project engineer. He continued on a path of growth, moving to Fairfax, Virginia, to take on several roles in the retail fuels area. He then moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 2005 as the area manager for company-owned assets in New England. He lived in Singapore from 2010-2013, where he was the Asia Pacific sales manager for industrial and wholesale fuels.
He became the U.S. finished lubricants sales director in 2015, where he would deliver record earnings. He was assigned as the fuel executive in 2018 before moving to the coordination and economics division in Beaumont, Texas. In 2022, he became the chief of staff for ExxonMobil’s chief operating officer. In this role, Brown worked closely with the COO and the CEO’s leadership team in the areas of strategy development and external messaging. He received his current vice president appointment in January 2024.
Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from The University of Alabama and an MBA from the University of Memphis. During his time at UA, he was president of the National Society of Black Engineers and the Engineering Executive Council. He was also named the UA National Alumni Association’s Outstanding Senior and received the Penny Allen Award for outstanding contributions to student life.
He is passionate about helping others and is highly sought out as a mentor and advisor. He serves as a member of the Capstone Engineering Society Board, ExxonMobil’s Black Employee Success Team’s Advisory Board, and Stillman College’s Board of Trustees. Brown was recently named one of the “Most Influential Executives in America” by Savoy Magazine.
His greatest pleasure is spending time with his wife, Kim, and their two sons, Hunter and Hendrix.