Mike Zamora is Senior Vice President of Chemical Products at ExxonMobil Product Solutions Company, located in Houston, Texas. He is responsible for leading the growth of high-value chemical performance products in the company’s customer- focused global business units including intermediates, olefins, polyethylene and polypropylene. A strategic priority of the portfolio is leading the industry in sustainability and addressing society’s ambitions for a lower-carbon future.
Prior to his current position, Mike was Senior Vice President of ExxonMobil Chemical Company, overseeing basic chemicals, integration and the company’s future growth.
Mike received his Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry from Georgetown University in 1991. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the University of Florida in 1997.
Upon graduation, Mike accepted a position with ExxonMobil as a product development engineer in Technology in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Over the next several years he worked between Houston and Baton Rouge in various commercial and operational management positions.
In 2005, Mike moved to Brussels and became the European Aromatics Marketing Manager. He returned to Houston in 2007 when he assumed the role of Senior Planning and Strategy Advisor for the Chemical Company. In 2008, Mike became Site Manager at the Baytown Olefins Plant in Baytown, Texas. Following that assignment, Mike was appointed Vice President, Basic Chemicals, ExxonMobil Chemical Company in April 2011. In 2014, he joined ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Company as the Global Optimization Manager. In early 2017, he returned to ExxonMobil Chemical Company as Manufacturing Director, Americas. Mike assumed his current position in April 2022.
Mike is a member of the Society of Chemical Industry Executive Committee, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste Executive Committee and the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) Advisory Board. He also serves on the advisory boards for both the University of Florida's Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the ExxonMobil Foundation. Mike is married and has two children.