Mark Stiffler

Mark Stiffler is the Vice President of the Asset Management Group which has responsibility for Alcoa's global real estate portfolio which includes over 250 locations and 250,000 acres across five continents and Alcoa's environmental liabilities which are currently reserved at $625 Million. The group of over 120 professionals and project managers manages an annual spend of $120-170 Million and focuses on maximizing the financial return on Alcoa's asset base and minimizing Alcoa's long term liabilities, resulting in over $1 Billion in revenues, cost savings and cost avoidance over the past 10 years. By ensuring that assets and liabilities are considered holistically, the group has successfully reduced the costs to exit locations and furthered the use of sustainable redevelopment to ensure that these facilities can be placed into productive use to create jobs and a tax base for the communities in which he operated. He joined Alcoa in February 2003 in the position of Business Group Manager within the Corporate Remediation Work Group.

Mark came to Alcoa with over seventeen years of management experience, including operations management with P&L responsibility, corporate sales and marketing, staff development and management, and program management. Prior to joining Alcoa, Mark was Director of Development for Equinix, Inc., where he implemented a $530 million fast-track program to deploy secure, mission critical datacenter infrastructure on time and 15 percent under budget, which allowed the company to go public. Before Equinix, Mark was Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region for Philip Services where he implemented a re-engineering strategy and directed consolidation/cost-saving measures that returned a troubled $62 million business unit to profitability. Prior to Philip Services, Mark was the Director of Site Restoration for ICF Kaiser Engineers where he founded a practice and grew the group to over 50 professionals.

Mark was born in Pittsburgh, PA. He earned a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College in Easton, PA, USA. Mark is based in Alcoa's Pittsburgh Office.