Alcoa Announces Personnel Moves.Business Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 15, 2003 Alcoa (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AA) today announced a series of personnel changes involving some of its markets. William F. Christopher, 48, has been named executive vice president, Alcoa and Group President for Alcoa Aerospace, Automotive and Commercial Transportation. Last September, he assumed responsibility for aerospace and commercial transportation and will now add accountability for Alcoa's global automotive market. This group includes Howmet Castings Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Howmet, a division of Alcoa is a world leader in the investment casting of superalloys, aluminum and titanium primarily for jet aircraft and industrial gas turbine (IGT) engine components. , Alcoa Fastening Systems, Alcoa Wheel and Forged Products, AFL AFL: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Automotive, Alcoa Cast Wheels and Alcoa Automotive businesses. Paul D. Thomas, 46, has become vice president, Alcoa and Group President for North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Fabricated Products, which includes the company's Mill Products and Engineered Products businesses. This structure will align the two businesses particularly in overlapping markets, including building and construction, transportation, and distribution. His most recent position was president of Alcoa Mill Products, which manufacturers sheet, heavy gauge foil and plate for the transportation, building and construction, and other industrial and consumer markets. Robert S. Hughes Robert S. Hughes (died 1900) was the third president of Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works. Before becoming president when Jacob S. Rogers resigned in 1893, he served as the company's treasurer. , 58, has been named Chairman's Counsel and will retire in mid-2003. He had been group president of Alcoa Automotive and Allied Products and president of Alcoa Fujikura Ltd., a joint venture between Alcoa and Fujikura Ltd. of Japan. He will assist with the transition of his responsibilities. Robert T. Alexander, 46, has been elected vice president of Alcoa and chairman of the AFL joint venture, which has locations in 64 countries. He had been president of AFL Automotive, with accountability for AFL's worldwide automotive businesses, which include design and manufacture of automotive electrical/electronic systems and components. Frank M. Larence, 53, has been named President of Diversified Products for the company. In this new position, Mr. Larence will be responsible for overseeing the operations of certain businesses in the packaging, building and construction, automotive, and general industrial and distribution sectors that Alcoa recently determined will be sold. These divestitures were announced in an Alcoa press release on Wednesday, January 8, 2003. In addition, in the interim, Mr. Larence, who had been president of the AFL Telecommunications Division located in Franklin, Tennessee Franklin is the county seat of Williamson County, Tennessee, USA. The population was 41,842 at the 2000 census. The 2007 Census Bureau Estimate places the population at 55,870. , will maintain oversight responsibility for this business, which will remain an integral part of the AFL joint venture. Jody Gallagher, 45, succeeds Mr. Larence as president of AFL Telecommunications. He had been vice president of Optical Fiber Systems for the AFL unit since 2001. Biographical information follows: William F. Christopher Mr. Christopher is responsible for Alcoa's global efforts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial transportation areas. He also leads the customer and marketing initiatives for growth for the corporation. Mr. Christopher joined Alcoa in 1975 in the Finance organization following graduation from Penn State University. He also earned an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration degree from Clarkson University Clarkson participates in student exchange programs with many schools in Europe and Australia. One example is the University of Leicester in the UK where students who are studying engineering come to Clarkson for a year as part of one of the exchange programs. . He held a series of financial, production and marketing management positions until 1996 when he was named president of Alcoa Forged Products, the Cleveland-based forgings and castings business. In 2001, he assumed responsibility for the global deployment of the Alcoa Business System, and the company's customer and quality initiatives. In 2002, he took on additional responsibility for Alcoa's global aerospace and commercial transportation markets. Mr. Christopher was elected an Alcoa vice president in 1999 and an executive vice president in 2001. Paul D. Thomas Mr. Thomas joined Alcoa in 1978 as an engineer at the company's Tennessee Operations following graduation from Lehigh University Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa.; coeducational; chartered and opened 1866 by Asa Packer. It has undergraduate colleges of arts and science, business and economics, and engineering and applied science, as well as several graduate programs. with a bachelor's degree in metallurgy and materials science materials science Study of the properties of solid materials and how those properties are determined by the material's composition and structure, both macroscopic and microscopic. . He later earned an MBA from the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. . He held a variety of manufacturing and engineering assignments at Alcoa's Tennessee and Warrick (Ind.) facilities ultimately became fabricating and ingot ingot Mass of metal cast into a size and shape such as a bar, plate, or sheet convenient to store, transport, and work into a semifinished or finished product. The term also refers to a mold in which metal is so cast. manager at Tennessee. In 1995, Mr. Thomas was named managing director of Alcoa Manufacturing (GB) Ltd. located in Swansea, Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. . He returned to the U.S. as president of Alcoa's Engineered Products business in January 1998 and elected a vice president of Alcoa in September 1998. Mr. Thomas was named president of Alcoa's North American Extrusion business in 2000, when his responsibilities were broadened to include extruded construction products and extruded heat exchanger heat exchanger Any of several devices that transfer heat from a hot to a cold fluid. In many engineering applications, one fluid needs to be heated and another cooled, a requirement economically accomplished by a heat exchanger. products, along with the Engineered Products business. He was named president of Alcoa Mill Products in 2001. Robert S. Hughes Bob Hughes Dr. Robert "Bob" Hughes. M.D. is a fictional character on the American soap opera, As the World Turns. Bob has been played since October 1960 by actor Don Hastings. Actors Bobby Alford and Ronnie Welch played Bob previously. was named president of AFL in 1996, elected a vice president of Alcoa in 1997, and appointed executive vice president of Alcoa and group president of Allied Products in 2001. During his extensive career with Alcoa, which started in 1967, he has held sales, marketing, manufacturing and business unit management positions with increasing responsibility. He assumed sales positions in Dallas, Detroit, St. Louis and Philadelphia before becoming manager of packaging sales in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1975. He participated in the Conference Board's Congressional Assistance Program in Washington, D.C. and upon his return to Alcoa worked as production superintendent, Cold Mills in Tennessee. He was based in Pittsburgh as central regional manager, Field Sales shortly thereafter he was named manager of Corporate Planning. In 1984, Mr. Hughes became marketing manager, Forging Division based in Cleveland, subsequently, was made plant manager, and in 1987 he became general manager, Wheel Products Division. He was named general manager, Alcoa Forgings and Castings Division in January 1991 and president of Alcoa Forged Products in August 1991. Mr. Hughes holds a marketing degree from West Virginia University West Virginia University, mainly at Morgantown; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; est. and opened 1867 as an agricultural college, renamed 1868. . Robert T. Alexander Robert T. (Bob) Alexander was named to his most recent position as President, AFL Automotive Operations in 2001. He has held various engineering, program management, and business management positions during his tenure with Alcoa's AFL joint venture. He has served as general manager of AFL's Japanese automotive business, director of AFL's EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. programs, and vice president, Full Service Supply. In 1997, Mr. Alexander was named vice president of Design Engineering and Program Management for AFL. In 2000, he assumed accountability for AFL's manufacturing operations in North America and one year later was assigned full accountability for AFL Automotive Operations worldwide. Mr. Alexander has a degree in physics from Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University, mainly at Ypsilanti, Mich.; coeducational; founded 1849 as a normal school, became Eastern Michigan College in 1956, gained university status in 1959. . Frank M. Larence Frank Larence joined Alcoa in 1972 in Alcoa's sales organization. He served in a number of sales management assignments in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New Jersey, Washington D.C., Indianapolis and Chicago, until being named manager of distribution at Alcoa's Davenport, Iowa, facility. In 1986, he was named director of commercial products for the Sheet & Plate Division in Davenport and, in 1991, he was named vice president and general manager of AFL Telecommunications Division and elected to AFL's Board of Directors. In 1998, he was named president of AFL Telecommunications Division. Mr. Lawrence received both a bachelor's degree in economics and an MBA degree from the University of Pittsburgh. Jody Gallagher Jody Gallagher joined Alcoa in 1979 at Alcoa's Rockdale, Texas operations as a financial analyst. He later moved to Alcoa's chemicals unit in finance until joining AFL Telecommunications in 1987. He has held positions in product and market management including national sales manager and was named to his most recent position as Vice President of Optical Fiber Systems for AFL Telecommunications in 2001. In this position, he is responsible for manufacturing, sales and marketing of AFL Telecommunications product lines worldwide. |
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