COMPANY

Aluminum Company of America, founded in 1888 ("Pittsburgh Reduction Company"). Acquired Reynolds Metals in 2000.

Official Website:
http://www.alcoa.com/

Industry:
Resources

Ticker:
NYSE:AA

Corporate headquarters:
New York City

Sales:
$26.2B (2005)

Employees:
129,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alain J. P. Belda	Business	23-Jun-1943		CEO of Alcoa
Peter R. Bridenbaugh	Business	c. 1940		Former EVP at Alcoa
W. H. Krome George	Business	27-Mar-1918	6-Sep-2004	Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, 1975-83
Veronica M. Hagen	Business	c. 1947		Polymer Group
L. Patrick Hassey	Business	c. 1945		CEO of Allegheny Technologies
George T. Haymaker, Jr.	Business	c. 1937		CEO of Kaiser Aluminum, 1994-99
Patricia L. Higgins	Business	c. 1949		CEO of Switch and Data, 2000-04
Richard B. Kelson	Business	20-Nov-1946		CFO of Alcoa, 1997-2006
Klaus Kleinfeld	Business	6-Nov-1957		President and COO of Alcoa
Sandra Beach Lin	Business	c. 1958		EVP at Celanese
Andrew W. Mellon	Business	24-Mar-1855	27-Aug-1937	US Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32
Paul O'Neill	Government	4-Dec-1935		US Treasury Secretary, 2001-02

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alain J. P. Belda	Business	23-Jun-1943		CEO of Alcoa
Kathryn S. Fuller	Administrator	c. 1946		World Wildlife Fund CEO, 1989-2005
Carlos Ghosn	Business	9-Mar-1954		CEO of Nissan and Renault
Joseph T. Gorman	Business	1-Oct-1937		CEO of TRW, 1988-2001
Judith M. Gueron	Administrator	c. 1941		President of MDRC, 1986-2004
Klaus Kleinfeld	Business	6-Nov-1957		President and COO of Alcoa
Michael G. Morris	Business	c. 1947		CEO of American Electric Power
Stanley O'Neal	Business	7-Oct-1951		CEO of Merrill Lynch, 2002-07
James W. Owens	Business	c. 1946		CEO of Caterpillar, 2004-10
Henry B. Schacht	Business	16-Oct-1934		Former CEO of Cummins, Lucent
Ratan N. Tata	Business	28-Dec-1937		Chairman of Tata Group
Franklin A. Thomas	Attorney	27-May-1934		President of the Ford Foundation, 1979-96
Ernesto Zedillo	Head of State	27-Dec-1951		President of Mexico, 1994-2000

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Kenneth W. Dam	Government	10-Aug-1932		Deputy Treasury Secretary, 2001-03
W. H. Krome George	Business	27-Mar-1918	6-Sep-2004	Chairman and CEO of Alcoa, 1975-83
Alan Greenspan	Economist	6-Mar-1926		Federal Reserve Chairman, 1987-2006
Paul O'Neill	Government	4-Dec-1935		US Treasury Secretary, 2001-02
Marina v.N. Whitman	Economist	6-Mar-1935		Council of Economic Advisers, 1972-73

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Christopher A. Bartlett	Educator	c. 1942		Managing Across Borders
Antonio Monteiro de Castro	Business	c. 1946		COO of British American Tobacco, 2002-07
Roger Penske	Business	20-Feb-1937		CEO of Penske Corporation

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
James Connaughton	Government	?		Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality
Robert Mehrabian	Business	31-Jul-1941		CEO of Teledyne

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