---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000049938-24-000020"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IMO"
cik: "0000049938"
company_name: "IMPERIAL OIL LTD"
filed_at: "2024-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T05:54:57.655745+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Imperial Oil appoints Cheryl Gomez-Smith as Senior VP, Upstream effective May 1, 2024

## Summary
- Cheryl Gomez-Smith succeeds Simon Younger as Senior VP, Upstream.
- Younger appointed Lead Country Manager & GM Australia Conventional, ExxonMobil Upstream.
- Gomez-Smith previously Director of Safety & Risk at ExxonMobil Global Operations.
- Younger served as Senior VP Upstream since June 2020, overseeing Kearl growth and Cold Lake emissions tech.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000049938-24-000020
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IMO
- cik: 0000049938
- company_name: IMPERIAL OIL LTD
- filed_at: 2024-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49938/000004993824000020/0000049938-24-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49938/000004993824000020/imo-20240429.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000049938-24-000020
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000049938-24-000020.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000049938-24-000020.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Simon Younger departed as Senior Vice President, Upstream at IMPERIAL OIL LTD.
  - Action: departed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Upstream
  source text: succeeds S.P. (Simon) Younger, who has been appointed Lead Country Manager and General Manager Australia Conventional, ExxonMobil Upstream.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49938/000004993824000020/0000049938-24-000020-index.htm
- Executive change
  Cheryl Gomez-Smith was appointed as Senior Vice President, Upstream at IMPERIAL OIL LTD.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Senior Vice President, Upstream
  source text: Imperial Oil Limited announced today the appointment of C.L. (Cheryl) Gomez-Smith as Senior Vice President, Upstream, effective May 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/49938/000004993824000020/0000049938-24-000020-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.