William Oplinger
President & Chief Executive Officer
Alcoa
Bill served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer of Alcoa from February 2023 until he was elected President and Chief Executive Officer on September 24, 2023, and was responsible for the daily operations of the Company’s global bauxite, alumina, and aluminum assets.
From November 2016 to February 2023, Bill was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Prior to the separation of Alcoa Inc. into two publicly traded companies in 2016, Bill had been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a position he assumed in 2013. He has deep experience leading Alcoa’s finance function, having overseen for treasury, pension, tax, controllership, financial planning and analysis, audit, investor relations and transformation. Prior to joining Alcoa Bill held engineering, marketing management and business planning positions with Westinghouse and Emerson Electric.
Bill earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Tech and a Master of Science with honors in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
