RIP. A legend. Also a father of triplets!
Lee Raymond, the oil executive who created Exxon Mobil via a mega-merger in 1998 and for many years fought global efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, has died. He was 87.
Raymond ran Exxon from 1993, and negotiated the merger deal with Mobil CEO Lucio A. Noto, emerging as CEO of the combined entity. Exxon Mobil soon after became the world’s largest publicly traded company as oil prices surged.