Alumni Resources

William (Bill) Colton is Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning for Exxon Mobil Corporation. In this role, he oversees the corporation’s strategic planning activities and the development of its Energy Outlook, ExxonMobil’s assessment of global energy trends. Bill was born in Massachusetts, and moved to the Midwest at an early age, living in Minnesota and Iowa before settling in Naperville, Illinois . . .

Bob is currently the Owner and President of a company called Shaft and Tunnel Engineering Services, operating out of Holland Landing, Ontario. In addition to his B.S. in Geological Engineering which he received from Michigan Tech in 1964, Bob earned a graduate diploma from the Haileybury School of Mines in Haileybury, Ontario. After leaving Michigan Tech, Bob worked with a wide variety of projects in a few different . . .

While working toward his bachelor’s degree at Michigan Tech, he spent one summer as a roughneck on oil drilling rigs on the north slope of Alaska; he must have liked it, because he has spent most of his career in the oil business, but not as a roughneck. After graduating from Michigan Tech with a B.S. in Geological Engineering in 1982, he took a job with Amoco Production Company, which led him from Hobbs, NM . . .