Jerome Pecresse

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

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

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

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.