Category: Private Citizen — Corporate Director Role: Independent Director, ExxonMobil Corporation Board Tenure: 2017 – present Committee Memberships: Audit Committee; Finance Committee Profile Type: Board Member Accountability — Anchor B (Documented Organizational Leadership)

Basis for Inclusion: Michael J. Angelakis holds a documented governance role at ExxonMobil Corporation, the largest U.S. oil and gas company by market capitalization, which made documented political donations to Trump-aligned entities. ExxonMobil’s business is significantly affected by federal energy policy, offshore drilling regulations, environmental permitting, carbon pricing, and U.S. trade policy on oil and gas exports — all areas where the Trump administration reversed Biden-era policies. This profile documents the factual governance relationship, not the subject’s personal political views.

Subject Classification: Private Citizen / Corporate Director. Board membership is a matter of public record.

What is NOT the basis for inclusion: Personal political opinions, party affiliation, or protected speech are NOT the basis for inclusion.

Biographical Overview

Michael J. Angelakis served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Comcast Corporation from 2007 to 2015, one of the largest media and telecommunications companies in the United States, where he oversaw the company’s financial strategy and played a key role in Comcast’s acquisitions of NBCUniversal (2011) and attempted acquisition of Time Warner Cable (2014). After leaving Comcast, he founded Atairos Group, a private investment firm backed by Comcast that invests across media, technology, and consumer companies. Angelakis joined ExxonMobil’s board in 2017 and brings expertise in large-scale capital deployment, financial structuring, and corporate acquisitions — areas directly relevant to ExxonMobil’s capital-intensive upstream investment strategy.

Board Role and Governance Authority

• Company: ExxonMobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM)
• Board tenure: 2017 – present
• Committee assignments: Audit Committee; Finance Committee
• Governance note: Angelakis’s CFO background at a major media and infrastructure company provides financial oversight expertise on ExxonMobil’s capital allocation and M&A activity.

Other Current Board Memberships

• Atairos Group (Founder and Managing Partner)

Parent Corporate Donor Profile

This profile is a governance-accountability companion to the ExxonMobil corporate donor profile.

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Sources

• ExxonMobil Corporation DEF 14A Proxy Statement, 2025; SEC EDGAR
• Comcast Corporation Annual Reports and proxy filings, 2007–2015