Ray Parkinson

Ray Parkinson has been with Kaiser Aluminum since 1994, and is currently the Senior Vice President of Advanced Engineering. Prior to joining Kaiser, Ray Parkinson held various management positions with other companies in the aluminum industry. These included TQM Manager at Davis Wire, VP Operations at Conex - Hitachi, and VP Operations & New Business at Conex Cable. Ray also served as Technical Director at Continuous Extruded Products and as Product & Process Development Manager at Babcock & Wilcox UK.

Ray Parkinson has a PhD in Aluminum Process Metallurgy from Imperial College London, an MBA in Business / Marketing from St. Mary's College (Moraga CA), and an MSc in Mechanical Metallurgy from Imperial College London. Ray also has a BSc(Eng) in Metallurgy from Imperial College London.

Ray Parkinson reports to Jack A. Hockema, Chairman & CEO. Some of their coworkers include Jennifer S. Huey - Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, Neal West - EVP, Chief Financial Officer, and Keith Harvey - President and Chief Operating Officer.