Tom Katinas, who has run ExxonMobil's 300,000-barrel-per-day Fawley Refinery in Britain for the past four years, will replace outgoing chief executive Charles Ruigrok on 1 May, Reuters reported.
Imperial Oil, 69.6% owned by ExxonMobil, agreed last year to second management to Syncrude Canada.
The move came after a problem-plagued expansion at the oil sands project in northern Alberta opened last year. The C$8.4