# Jerome Pecresse Chief Executive Aluminium and Lithium ## Career chronology - **2025-08-27 onward: Rio Tinto** — Chief Executive Aluminium and Lithium. [Jérôme Pécresse biography]() (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); [Annual report 2025]() (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries) - **2015 to September 2022: General Electric** — President and Chief Executive, Renewable Energy. [Jérôme Pécresse biography]() (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); [Annual report 2025]() (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries) - **Before GE acquisition in 2015; exact dates unverified: Alstom** — Renewable Energy leadership. [Jérôme Pécresse biography]() (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); [Annual report 2025]() (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries) - **Before joining Alstom in 2011; exact dates unverified: Imerys** — Operations leadership, including Chief Operating Officer. [Jérôme Pécresse biography]() (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); [Annual report 2025]() (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries) ## Education and qualifications ### Reported qualifications [jerome_education] Career background · issuer reported · low materiality The issuer reports École Polytechnique and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées qualifications; independent confirmation was not obtained. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Issuer-reported qualifications and memberships are not independently verified. **Relevance:** Relevant professional background. [Jérôme Pécresse biography]() (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); [Annual report 2025]() (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries) ## Business failures and setbacks ### GE Renewable Energy reported losses [jerome_failure1] January–September 2022 · documented · high materiality GE reported a US$1.786 billion renewable-energy segment loss for the nine months ended September 2022, including US$934 million in the third quarter; it cited warranty reserves, lower US volume and inflation. A French regulator-hosted corporate declaration says Pécresse left the segment CEO role at the end of September 2022. **Attribution:** Role overlaps event; causation unproven. The prior CEO role overlaps the reporting period, but individual responsibility and the effect of market and other external factors are not established. **Relevance:** Relevant prior operating and capital-allocation context. [GE third quarter 2022 results]() (p.4, renewable energy nine-month and quarterly segment results); [GE Renewable Management declaration]() (2022 declaration, departure at end September) ## Suitability for the current role ### Experience relevant to the role [jerome_fit] Career through October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality Rio Tinto reports that he joined in 2023 to lead Aluminium; previously he led GE Renewable Energy and held Alstom, Imerys and Credit Suisse First Boston roles. The combined Aluminium and Lithium group was announced on 27 August 2025. **Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Career claims are sourced to issuer accounts; their relevance to current duties is an analytical inference, not a measured contribution. **Relevance:** Experience relevant to the stated remit. [Jérôme Pécresse biography]() (Named issuer executive biography or dated appointment; role and career); [Annual report 2025]() (physical pp. 107–108, executive committee and secretaries) ## Evidence gaps - Independent credential and membership verification remains incomplete. - Prior-employer and person-specific court, regulator, fraud, environment and safety searches are incomplete; documented screening is not a clearance.