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About Dawne Hickton
- Dawne Eileen Sepanski Hickton (born November 2, 1957) is an American business executive.
- She is the chief operating officer and president of the aerospace, technology and nuclear businesses of the Jacobs Engineering Group.
- Before that, she was CEO of Pittsburgh-based RTI International Metals.
- She is notable for being one of the few women business leaders to manage a large publicly traded firm.
- During the last few years, she pursued numerous acquisitions to grow RTI into an end-to-end supplier of titanium components for clients such as Boeing and Airbus, and for making components for the military aircraft such as the Joint Strike Fighter.
- She pursued a strategy of buying specialty firms such as Remmele Engineering, the Forming Division of Aeromet, and others as part of a program of vertical integration.
- In March, 2015, RTI International Metals, Inc.
- was acquired by Alcoa in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $1.5 billion.
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