People stroll into Alcoa company headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Aluminum producer Alcoa introduced Monday that the corporate has named William Oplinger as its new president and CEO, efficient instantly.
Oplinger, 56, additionally joined the board of administrators. He succeeded Roy Harvey, who will now function a strategic advisor to the CEO via the top of the yr, in accordance with a company press release. Oplinger had served as Alcoa’s government vice president and chief operations officer since February.
The firm stated the management transition is a results of its “succession planning course of.”
“Roy has guided Alcoa since its launch as a public firm in November 2016, serving to to remodel Alcoa into the stronger and extra resilient firm that it’s at this time,” stated Steven Williams, the corporate’s non-executive chairman of the board, in a press release. “Our Board believes Bill’s in depth expertise with Alcoa makes him well-positioned to hold the corporate ahead.”
The Pittsburgh-based producer split into two publicly traded firms and created the present iteration of Alcoa in 2016. Before that, Oplinger had served as chief monetary officer and oversaw the mining, refining, smelting and vitality companies. Harvey had served as president since May 2017.
“I’m extraordinarily honored to steer an organization with such a wealthy legacy and construct upon the progress we have revamped these previous a number of years,” Oplinger stated within the assertion. “We’ve strengthened our firm and we will likely be centered on executing on our methods to create worth at this time whereas we work on our long-term imaginative and prescient to reinvent the aluminum trade for a sustainable future.”