AdvertisementIn ExxonMobil's Rex Tillerson, Moscow Sees Trusted, Highly Regarded FigureDecember 12, 2016Lucian KimfacebookEmailVladimir Putin, then Russia's prime minister, toasts with ExxonMobil's Rex Tillerson (left foreground) and Igor Sechin (right foreground) outside Moscow in April 2012. Sechin, a close Putin ally, was then deputy prime minister and now serves as CEO of Russian oil giant Rosneft. (AP)