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DALLAS — Exxon Mobil chairman and chief executive Rex Tillerson will retain both of those jobs at the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company after a highly public, Rockefeller-led push to separate the roles failed again Wednesday.
Stripping Tillerson of the chairman’s job in favor of an independent director was the main focus of the company’s annual shareholder meeting.
The measure got support of 39.5 percent of shareholders, slightly less than last year’s 40 percent, despite a hard push by descendants of John D. Rockefeller, founder of Exxon Mobil predecessor Standard Oil.
