Dr Freeman, VP Health Sciences, a former Executive with ExxonMobil received a PhD in toxicology from Rutgers University, became a Diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT) and retired in 2020 after 34 years working for ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. He began his career in Toxicology in the mid-1970s as a laboratory technician, attended night school to obtain his B.S.in biology and joined ExxonMobil in 1985 after receiving his PhD. Throughout his career, Jim was active in the Society of Toxicology with multiple presentations and overall has 32 scientific publications. Jim held many leadership positions during his career at ExxonMobil including Director of its Environmental Health Laboratory, Section Head positions in Toxicology and Product Stewardship, technical secretary to the ExxonMobil Occupational Exposure Limit committee and toxicology representative to ExxonMobil’s Health Research Ethics Committee. He made multiple contributions to the company’s downstream businesses and published on the toxicology of asphalt, middle distillates and medicinal white oils. Externally, Dr. Freeman worked with industry and U.S. delegations to the United Nations on the application of the Global Harmonized System for the Classification of Chemicals to petroleum hydrocarbons. He has served on expert science advisory panels in the US for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interagency Coordinating Committee for Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM), efforts related to validation of toxicity test methods by the Organization for Economic Coordination and Development (OECD), as an invited industry observer to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and as Chairperson to the NIH-National Toxicology Program’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Alternative Test Methods (SACATM). Jim is a past-Chairperson of the external advisory board to the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), past-Chair of the Asphalt Institute Health and Environmental Committee and a past-president and treasurer of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Society of Toxicology.