Mr. Steven J. Demetriou

Biography

Mr. Steven J. Demetriou is Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Mr. Demetriou joined the Company in August 2015. he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aleris Corporation, a global downstream aluminum producer based in Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Demetriou was Chief Executive Officer of Aleris when it filed for Chapter 11 in 2009 and when it successfully emerged from Chapter 11 in June 2010. Mr. Demetriou was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Commonwealth Industries, Inc. (a predecessor by merger to Aleris) in June 2004, after serving as a member of that company’s board of directors from 2002. Before joining Commonwealth in 2004, Mr. Demetriou was Chief Executive Officer of Noveon, Inc. Prior to that, from 1999 to 2001, he was Executive Vice President of IMC Global Inc. and, from 1981 to 1999, he held various management positions with Cytec Industries Inc. and ExxonMobil Corporation. Mr. Demetriou currently serves on the board of Kraton Performance Polymers and is the chair of its Compensation Committee and a member of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Demetriou previously served on the board of Foster-Wheeler AG starting in 2008 and was Non-Executive Chairman of Foster-Wheeler from 2011 to 2014. Mr. Demetriou also previously served on the board of OM Group where he served as chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating / Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Demetriou holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University. 

Research Interest

 Business & Management