Allegheny Technologies Announces Management Changes
01/19/2009 - Allegheny Technologies announces the appointment of Carl R. Moulton to the position of Vice President, International, as well as the departure from the company of Douglas A. Kittenbrink, Executive Vice President, Corporate Planning and International Business Development, effective March 1, 2009.
Allegheny Technologies Inc. announced the appointment of Carl R. Moulton to the position of Vice President, International. The company also announced that Douglas A. Kittenbrink, Executive Vice President, Corporate Planning and International Business Development, has decided to leave ATI. The changes are effective March 1, 2009.
“As President of our Uniti titanium joint venture, Carl Moulton has helped enable ATI to become more globally focused and has helped expand our direct international sales,” said L. Patrick Hassey, Chairman, President and CEO.
In his new position, Moulton will be responsible for ATI’s commercial activities in Europe and Asia, and ATI’s STAL Precision Rolled Strip® and Uniti titanium joint ventures. Moulton, 61 and a graduate of Dartmouth College, began his career in 1972 as a sales representative with Allegheny Ludlum. In 1981, he joined Jessop Steel as Vice President, Marketing, ultimately assuming Presidency of the company until Jessop was acquired by ATI in 1993.
Moulton has served in various important commercial and strategic roles since rejoining ATI. He was involved in the strategic planning for Uniti LLC and was selected as its first President when it was formed in 2003, a position that he still holds. Under Moulton’s leadership, Uniti has become one of the world’s leading suppliers of industrial titanium products.
The company reports that Kittenbrink is leaving the company to devote more time to his family’s business pursuits and to work with nonprofit and charitable organizations with which he has been associated for many years. Kittenbrink, 53, has held numerous positions in engineering, operations, and executive management and has made important contributions to ATI’s success since joining the company in 1992. He has served in his current position since March 2007, having previously served as Executive Vice President, ATI Business System and Group President, Engineered Products Segment (2003 to 2007); Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (2001 to 2003); and President of Allegheny Ludlum (2000 to 2002).
“We acknowledge and thank Doug Kittenbrink for his years of service and accomplishments at ATI and wish him and his family the best of luck in the future,” commented Hassey.
Kittenbrink has agreed to provide consulting services to the company over the next two years.
Allegheny Technologies is one of the largest and most diversified specialty metals producers in the world with revenues of $5.5 billion during 2007. ATI’s major markets are aerospace and defense, chemical process industry/oil and gas, electrical energy, medical, automotive, food equipment and appliance, machine and cutting tools, and construction and mining. The company’s products include titanium and titanium alloys, nickel-based alloys and superalloys, stainless and specialty alloys, grain-oriented electrical steel, zirconium, hafnium, and niobium, tungsten materials, and forgings and castings.
