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Group President - Alcoa Aerospace, Automotive and Commercial Transportation
Cleveland, Ohio
William F. (Bill) Christopher is responsible for Alcoa's global efforts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial transportation areas. He was appointed group president for Alcoa's aerospace and commercial transportation groups in September 2002 and assumed additional responsibility for automotive in January 2003. This group includes Alcoa Industrial Components and Forged Products, Alcoa Fastening Systems, Alcoa Wheel Products, AFL Automotive, and the Alcoa Transportation Solutions businesses. Bill also led the customer and marketing initiatives for growth for the corporation until early 2006. In addition, he is a member of Alcoa's Executive Council, the senior leadership group that provides strategic direction for the company. Bill is also the director of Alcoa's Global Aerospace Market Sector.
Bill joined Alcoa in 1975 in the Finance organization in Pittsburgh following graduation from Penn State University with an accounting degree. He held a series of financial management positions in Massena (N.Y.), Davenport (Iowa) and in Tennessee until he was named sheet mill manager at Davenport in 1988. Three years later he became vice president, Commercial Products Sales and Marketing also based in Davenport. Bill was named president of Alcoa Forged Products, the Cleveland-based forgings and castings business, in 1996. In 2001 he assumed responsibility for the global deployment of the Alcoa Business System, and the company's customer and quality initiatives. A year later, Bill took on additional responsibility for Alcoa's global aerospace and commercial transportation markets and then added automotive to his accountabilities. He was elected a vice president of Alcoa in 1999 and an executive vice president in 2001.
Bill obtained an M.B.A. degree in 1980 from Clarkson University. He serves on the board of directors of the Greater Cleveland Partnership and serves on Mayor Jackson's Task Force for Economic Development.
Bill was born March 17, 1954, in Ridley Park, Pa. He and his wife, Cathy, and their three children, Bryan, Tony and Megan, reside in Cleveland, Ohio. | 