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Dawne Hickton
Chair-designate,
Elevra Lithium (Sayona-Piedmont Merger)
United States
Dawne is the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Cumberland Additive, Inc, an innovative 3-D printing technology company serving the space, defense and aerospace markets.
She was the former President of the Critical Mission Solution business of Jacobs (NYSE:J) and before that was the Vice Chair and CEO of Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals (NYSE:RTI), notable for being one of the few women business leaders to manage a large publicly traded firm.
During the last few years, she pursued numerous acquisitions to grow RTI into an end-to-end supplier of titanium components for clients such as Boeing and Airbus, and for making components for the military aircraft such as the Joint Strike Fighter; she also pursued a strategy of buying specialty firms such as Remmele Engineering, the Forming Division of Aeromet, and others as part of a program of vertical integration. In March, 2015, RTI International Metals, Inc. was acquired by Alcoa in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $1.5 billion.
She was the former President of the Critical Mission Solution business of Jacobs (NYSE:J) and before that was the Vice Chair and CEO of Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals (NYSE:RTI), notable for being one of the few women business leaders to manage a large publicly traded firm.
During the last few years, she pursued numerous acquisitions to grow RTI into an end-to-end supplier of titanium components for clients such as Boeing and Airbus, and for making components for the military aircraft such as the Joint Strike Fighter; she also pursued a strategy of buying specialty firms such as Remmele Engineering, the Forming Division of Aeromet, and others as part of a program of vertical integration. In March, 2015, RTI International Metals, Inc. was acquired by Alcoa in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $1.5 billion.
Sessions
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24-Jun-2025Main StageM&A Dynamics: Sayona-Piedmont Merger and Its Impact on the Lithium Supply Chain