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ATI names new chief executive

Written by Laura Miller

February 23, 2024

Kimberly A. Fields, current president of specialty metals producer ATI, has been named president and CEO of the Dallas-based company, effective July 1.

Fields has served as COO of ATI since 2022 and president since July 2023. Prior to joining the company in 2019, she worked for IDEX Corp., Evraz, and GE.

Fields will succeed current ATI CEO Robert S. Wetherbee, who will now serve as executive chairman for the company. Wetherbee was named president and CEO in 2018 and chairman of the board in 2020.

“Kim is ready to lead this organization. Her demonstrated operational and commercial success makes her proven to perform. As ATI’s next CEO, Kim will further accelerate our growth and value creation,” Wetherbee commented in a statement.

ATI is a specialty metals and materials producer serving the aerospace, defense, oil and gas, chemical, electrical energy, and medical sectors.

Laura Miller

Laura Miller is a reporter and editor for Steel Market Update. She has held a variety of positions within the steel industry since 2007, including reporting and editing for Steel Business Briefing/Platts, the Association for Iron and Steel Technology, and Kallanish Commodities, as well as marketing for what was then known as ThyssenKrupp Steel USA (now AM/NS Calvert). After a five-year hiatus working across other industries, she returned to steel in 2021 and has covered the flat rolled, tubular, and trade areas of the industry. She is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and a past-president of the AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She can be reached at laura@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7869.

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