• CENTURY ALUM CO Key Executives

  • Total Compensation: $ 3.21 M
    Logan W. Kruger, President and Chief Executive Officer since December 2005; President, Asia/Pacific Inco Limited from September 2005 to November 2005; Executive Vice-President, Technical Services for Inco Ltd. from September 2003 to September 2005; Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American Chile Ltd. from July 2002 to September 2003; and President and Chief Executive Officer, Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. from September 1996 to June 2002.
    Total Compensation: $ 1.64 M
    On February 28, 2007, Century Aluminum Company announcing that Wayne R. Hale has been appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company effective March 1, 2007, succeeding E. Jack Gates who will resign from those positions effective upon Mr. Hale's appointment. Mr. Hale, 51, served from April 2004 to February 2007, as Senior Vice President of Sual-Holding, an integrated aluminum company headquartered in Moscow, Russia. Before joining Sual-Holding, he served from April 2000 to April 2004, in various senior management positions with Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation, an upstream copper mining and smelting company, and a subsidiary of Rio Tinto PLC, including as Chief Operating Officer from April 2002 to April 2004. From December 1997 through 2000, Mr. Hale served as President, Primary Products Division for Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation.
    Total Compensation: $ 1.17 M
    Michael A. Bless, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since January 2006. Prior to joining Century, Mr. Bless served as managing director of M. Safra & Co., Inc., from February 2005 to January 2006 and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Maxtor Corporation from August 2004 to October 2004. From August 1997 through January 2004, Mr. Bless served in a number of senior executive positions with Rockwell Automation, Inc. (formerly known as Rockwell International Corporation), a leading industrial automation hardware, software and services company, including as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from June 2001 to January 2004.
    Steve Schneider - Chief Accounting Officer
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Steve Schneider, Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller since June 2006, Vice President and Corporate Controller from April 2002 through May 2006; Corporate Controller since April 2001.
    Robert R. Nielsen - General Counsel
    Total Compensation: $ 1.14 M
    Robert R. Nielsen, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary since May 2006. Prior to joining Century, Mr. Nielsen served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Tanimura and Antle, Inc. from July 2005 to April 2006, and Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from March 1993 to June 2005.
    William J. Leatherberry - Vice President
    Total Compensation: $ —
    William J. Leatherberry, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary since January 2008. Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary since July 2007, Assistant Secretary since May 2007 and Corporate Counsel since January 2005. Prior to joining Century, Mr. Leatherberry served as Senior Transactions Counsel of VarTec Telecom Inc. from September 2003 to January 2005 and Associate with the law firm of Jones Day from May 1996 to September 2003.
    Peter C. McGuire - Vice President
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Peter C. McGuire, Vice President and Associate General Counsel since April 2002; Associate General Counsel for more than five years.
    Michelle M. Lair - Vice President
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Michelle M. Lair, Vice President and Treasurer since February 2007, Treasurer since June 2006, Assistant Treasurer from November 2005 to June 2006, and Corporate Financial Analyst from May 2000 to October 2005.
    Giulio Casello - Senior VP, Divisional
    Total Compensation: $ 722,544.00
    Giulio Casello, Senior Vice President of Business Development since April 2007, Vice President of Bauxite and Alumina Operations from December 2005 through May 2006 and Vice President of Century Alumina, Inc. from September 2005 to December 2005. Prior to joining Century, Mr. Casello served in a number of senior positions with Alcoa World Alumina Australia from 1986 to 2005, including as Director of Western Australian Operations from January 2003 to September 2005; General Manager of Alcoa World Chemicals from April 2001 to December 2002.
    Catherine Z. Manning - Director Nominee
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Catherine Z. Manning, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP since July 1986, Finance Effectiveness and Merger Integration leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Atlanta Advisory practice; Chairman, Atlanta Historical Society since January 2007, member since January 2002; member, Georgia Appleseed since January 2006; member, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia since February 2008.
    Jerry E. Reed - Vice President, Divisional
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    Jerry E. Reed, Vice President of Business Development since June 2007. Prior to joining Century, Mr. Reed served as Strategic Marketing Director for Alcoa Primary Products from July 2004 to May 2007, and various senior management positions for Alcoa, including Commercial Manager for Alcoa Australia and Alumina Market Manager for Alcoa World Alumina from 2001 through 2004.
    Jarl Berntzen - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Jarl Berntzen, Partner - Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, ThinkEquity Partners LLC since March 2006; Director of Universal Safety Response, Inc. since October 2007; Senior Vice President, Barrington Associates, LLC from April 2005 to February 2006; Founder, Berntzen Capital Management, LLC from March 2003 to April 2005; Managing Director of Providence Capital, Inc. from September 2002 to March 2003; Various positions, including Vice President of Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1991 to 2001.
    John C. Fontaine - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    John C. Fontaine, Our Lead Director since 2005; Of Counsel, law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP since January 2000 and Partner from July 1997 to December 1999; Chairman of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation from 1994 to 2006; Trustee of the National Gallery of Art from 2003 to 2007 and Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2007.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Robert E. Fishman, Ph.D., Director of Range Fuels, Inc. since November 2007; President and Chief Executive Officer of Ausra, Inc. since October 1, 2007; Executive Vice President, Power Operations of Calpine Corporation from 2006 to 2007; Senior Vice President of Calpine Corporation from 2001 to 2005.
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Willy R. Strothotte, Chairman of the Board of Glencore International AG since 1994 and Chief Executive Officer from 1993 to December 2001; Director of KKR Financial Holdings LLC since January 2007; Director of Minara Resources Ltd. since 2000; and Chairman of the Board of Xstrata AG (formerly Sudelektra Holding AG) since 1994.
    Peter C. Jones - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Peter C. Jones, Partner, Setter Group since June 2007; Director of Mizuho Corporate Bank (Canada) since December 2006; Director of IAMGOLD Corporation since May 2006; Director, President and Chief Operating Officer of Inco Ltd. from April 2001 to November 2006; President Commissioner P.T. Inco Tbk from 1999 to 2006; Chairman Goro Nickel SAS from 2003 to February 2007; Member of the Board and the Executive Committee, Mining Association of Canada from 1997 to 2006; and Member of the Board, Royal Ontario Museum from 2003 to 2006.
    John P. O'Brien - Director/Chairman of the Board
    Total Compensation: $ —
    John P. O'Brien, Our Chairman of the Board since January 2008; Managing Director of Inglewood Associates Inc. since 1990; Chairman of Allied Construction Products since March 1993; Director of Preformed Line Products Company since May 2004; Director of Oglebay Norton Company from April 2003 to February 2008; Director of International Total Services, Inc. from August 1999 to January 2003; Member of the Board of Trustees of Saint Luke's Foundation of Cleveland, Ohio since 2006; Trustee of Cleveland Sight Center since 1990; Chairman, Chagrin Falls Board of Zoning Appeals since 2005; and Trustee of Downtown Chagrin Falls since 2000.
    Jack E. Thompson - Director
    Total Compensation: $ —
    Jack E. Thompson, Director of Tidewater Inc. since 2005; Director of Rinker Group Ltd. from May 2006 to June 2007; Director of Phelps Dodge Corp. from January 2003 to March 2007; Director of Stillwater Mining Co. from 2002 to June 2006; Vice Chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation from December 2001 to April 2005; member of the Advisory Board of Resource Capital Funds III and IV, LLP since 2002; member of the Industry Advisory Council for the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona since 2002.