Paris Watts-Stanfield Elected Alcoa Vice President, Internal Audit and Company Officer; Julie Caponi Named Assistant Treasurer
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The Alcoa (NYSE:AA) Board of Directors has elected Paris Watts-Stanfield
Vice President, Internal Audit and an Officer of the Company. In this
role, she is accountable for Alcoa's worldwide audit activities in the
Finance, Information Technology, and Environment, Health and Safety
areas. Most recently she was Director of Internal Audit at Alcoa,
responsible for leading the company's global Financial Business Process
and IT audit groups.
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Paris Watts-Stanfield was elected by Alcoa's Board of Directors as Vice President, Internal Audit and an Officer of the Company. (Photo: Business Wire)
'Paris has extensive global corporate experience in the manufacturing,
consumer products, and retail industries that will serve her well in
this important role,' said Bill Oplinger, Alcoa Executive Vice President
and CFO.
Prior to joining Alcoa in 2012, Ms. Watts-Stanfield served in senior
management roles with Wal-Mart, first as Vice President, International
Internal Auditing and later as Vice President, Operations Finance,
overseeing Wal-Mart's Central business unit in the U.S. Earlier, she
worked 17 years for Procter & Gamble, rotating through a series of
finance and accounting roles with increasing responsibility. She was
Finance Director for Procter & Gamble's Internal Audit group in Asia,
CFO for its hair care business in Japan and South Korea, and CFO for the
household cleaning products business in North America.
She succeeds Julie Caponi who will become Assistant Treasurer, involved
across all Corporate Treasury functions including treasury operations,
corporate finance, bank relationship management, risk management and
transaction execution. In addition, Ms. Caponi will continue as Location
Manager for Alcoa's Pittsburgh Office.
Ms. Caponi served as Vice President, Internal Audit since 2005 and was
Assistant Controller prior to taking this assignment. Previously, she
was an audit partner in Deloitte's Pittsburgh office. She is a member of
the First Commonwealth Financial Corporation Board of Directors, and
sits on the Audit and Executive Compensation Committees.
About Alcoa
Alcoa is the world′s leading producer of primary and fabricated
aluminum, as well as the world′s largest miner of bauxite and refiner of
alumina. In addition to inventing the modern-day aluminum industry,
Alcoa innovation has been behind major milestones in the aerospace,
automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial
transportation, consumer electronics and industrial markets over the
past 125 years. Among the solutions Alcoa markets are flat-rolled
products, hard alloy extrusions, and forgings, as well as Alcoa ? wheels,
fastening systems, precision and investment castings, and building
systems in addition to its expertise in other light metals such as
titanium and nickel-based super alloys. Sustainability is an integral
part of Alcoa′s operating practices and the product design and
engineering it provides to customers. Alcoa has been a member of the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index for 11 consecutive years and approximately 75
percent of all of the aluminum ever produced since 1888 is still in
active use today. Alcoa employs approximately 61,000 people in 30
countries across the world. For more information, visit www.alcoa.com,
follow @Alcoa on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Alcoa
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