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Alcoa CEO: Bill Oplinger
When Alcoa became a standalone company in 2016, Bill Oplinger was its CFO. Nearly a decade later, as CEO, he’s marking its 10th anniversary with a bold bet of his own: pursuing South32’s aluminium assets in a deal that would boost production capacity by around 50%.
Bill takes us inside Alcoa’s evolution since the split: the businesses it considered and ruled out, Guinea’s ambitions to move downstream, and the growing competition between aluminium smelters and data centres for affordable power.
What does it take to lead a company you’ve spent nearly 27 years inside, and decide what comes next?…
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