Dean's Advisory Council
Jesse J. Tyson
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Jesse J. Tyson is a native of Jackson, Tenn. He earned a BS in Economics with honors from Lane College in 1974 and an MBA in Marketing from The Ohio State University in 1976. He has been employed by ExxonMobil for more than 30 years, with extensive experience in the logistics, order-to-cash, and marketing segments of the energy business.
Tyson was selected for the transition team during the merger of Exxon and Mobil in 1999, and was appointed global customer service manager after the merger with functional responsibilities for distribution operations, road transportation, and order-to-cash management. In 2002, he was appointed Americas South Fuels marketing director and president of ExxonMobil Inter-America Incorporated and is based in Coral Gables, Fla. He is responsible for ExxonMobil’s fuels marketing retail business in the Caribbean, Central America, Andean Region, and South America.
Recently named to the Dean’s Advisory Council at Fisher College of Business, Tyson is also a member of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity and the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He has been honored as a recipient of the NAACP Achievement Award and recipient of a Presidential Citation from the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. He is a lifetime member of the National Black MBA Association and a member of the Executive Leadership Council. Tyson attended The Brookings Institute and The International Management Development School in Switzerland.
Tyson and his wife, Cheryl, have three daughters, Tamika, Cormisha and Christina, and one grandson, Christopher.