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Alcoa Chairman Alain Belda Elected to IBM Board of Directors
Thursday 26. June 2008 - Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that Alcoa Chairman Alain Belda was elected to the IBM board of directors, effective July 29, 2008.
Alain Belda is chairman of Alcoa. Mr. Belda has a long, distinguished career at Alcoa joining the company nearly 40 years ago in its Brazilian affiliate, Alcoa Aluminio. He was elected a vice president of Alcoa in 1982, executive vice president in 1994, vice chairman in 1995, and president and chief operating officer with responsibility for all of Alcoas operating activities in 1997. Two years later, he was elected president and chief executive officer and became chairman and chief executive officer of Alcoa in 2001, and named to his current position earlier this year
In addition to being chairman of Alcoas board of directors, Mr. Belda is a director of Citigroup Inc. He serves on the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board, the worlds leading business membership and research organization, and is also an active member of the Business Council.