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| March 15, 2002
Alcoa Announces New Appointments
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2002--Alcoa (NYSE:AA)
announced today that A. Hamish Petrie, 54, was named vice president
for People and Communications and William J. (Bill) O'Rourke, 53, was
appointed vice president Environment, Health and Safety, and Audit
effective immediately.
Mr. Petrie is accountable for worldwide human resource functions,
including leadership and development, labor relations, benefits,
compensation, and recruitment activities, together with corporate
communications and public strategy. Mr. Petrie's most recent position
was vice president and global director for Human Resources, a position
he held since mid-2001. He succeeds Robert F. Slagle, executive vice
president of human resources and communications, who retired in
February 2002.
Mr. O'Rourke has been vice president of Audit since November 2001
reporting to Richard Kelson, CFO. The environment, health and safety
responsibilities will be integrated with his audit activities within
Mr. Kelson's organization. Mr. O'Rourke succeeds Joseph C. Muscari,
who has been previously appointed as group vice president for Asia and
Latin America operations.
In making the announcement, Alcoa Chairman and CEO Alain Belda
said, "Both Hamish and Bill bring experience and leadership skills to
two units of the company that are key to our Values -- people and
environment, health and safety."
Biographical information follows:
A. Hamish Petrie
Mr. Petrie joined Alcoa in Australia at its Pt. Henry Works in
1978. He held a series of production supervisory positions before
becoming personnel and industrial relations manager. In 1985, he was
named smelting manager at Pt. Henry and in 1988, rolled products
marketing and sales manager for Australia, Asia and South Africa. In
1993, Hamish moved to Kwinana, in Western Australia as works manager
of Alcoa's alumina refinery. During this assignment, he undertook
external roles as president of the Kwinana Industrial Council and a
State Councilor for the Australian Quality Council. In 1999, he moved
to Geelong as general manager, Victoria Operations, where he was
responsible for the operations of two smelters, one power station and
the marketing of ingot products. He moved to Pittsburgh in 2000 as
president of Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals' global chemicals
business. He was responsible for 15 plants in North America, Europe,
Australia, India, Japan and China.
A native of Australia, Hamish was educated at Brisbane Boys
College and subsequently graduated with Honours in Metallurgy in 1968
from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
William J. O'Rourke
Mr. O'Rourke joined Alcoa in 1975 as a patent attorney. Later he
left Alcoa to join Joy Manufacturing Company, where he held a variety
of positions including corporate patent counsel, director of corporate
administration, and general manager of a mining machinery parts
business. He returned to Alcoa's Intellectual Property Department in
1988. Bill was named an assistant officer, Corporate Patent Counsel,
in 1992, and assistant general counsel in 1995. In 1996, he was named
to lead Alcoa's Environmental, Health and Safety organization. He
became managing director of Alcoa Business Support Services in June
1997, with accountability for procurement, financial shared services,
human resources, environment, health and safety services,
administrative services and aircraft operations. Mr. O'Rourke was
elected a vice president of Alcoa in September 1997.
Mr. O'Rourke is an Executive Faculty member at the University of
Pittsburgh's Katz School of Business in the Ethics and Business
Conduct course. He is president of the Board of Directors of the local
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and serves on the Advisory Board
of Duquesne University's Center for Environmental Research &
Education, and the University's Bayer School of Natural &
Environmental Sciences.
He graduated from John Carroll University in 1970 with bachelor
degrees in both the science and the arts. He received a Juris Doctor
degree from Duquesne University's School of Law in Pittsburgh in 1975.
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