Don Bagley

Vice President – Business Development at ExxonMobil Exploration Company

Don is Vice President of Business Development for ExxonMobil Exploration Company. He received a bachelor’s degree in geology from Duke University in 1987 and a master’s degree in geology from the University of Oklahoma in 1989. He began his career with Exxon in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1989, and has worked in Houston, London, and Dallas.

Over his career, Don has held various technical, supervisory and managerial assignments across the Upstream. In his current Exploration VP role, Mr. Bagley is responsible for ExxonMobil’s global new opportunity generation, portfolio management, commercial, and strategic planning teams.

Don has participated in leadership development training with the Columbia Business School and the Thunderbird International School of Business. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Don is an active champion for inclusion and diversity at ExxonMobil. Outside of work Don is a community volunteer and enjoys exercise, traveling, cooking, and fishing.

Don is married and manages a dual career family with his wife Betsy. They have four children.

Discussion

International Exploration

International exploration and production has proceeded along a steady path with more inertia and longer time frames necessary to bring resources to market. Is it equipped to change with the advent of unconventional production from the US? Have recent discoveries like Eni’s Zohr field or Exxon’s Guyana development, marked a new approach by IOC/NOCs or is it an aberration? If it is a trend that is likely to continue, what impact will global exploration and development have on the broader upstream business?