Company: CENX
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001104659-25-026687
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Company: CENTURY ALUMINUM CO
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.02
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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election
of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On March 21, 2025, Century
Aluminum Company (the “ Company”) announced that Peter Trpkovski, the Company’s Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer,
has been appointed to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective March 21, 2025, to succeed Gerald Bialek, who as
of the same date will leave his position as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer as part of a planned transition.

Mr. Trpkovski, age 43,
joined the Company in 2013 and was promoted to Director of Financial Planning and Analysis in 2019, to Vice President, Finance and Investor
Relations in 2022, and to Senior Vice President, Finance and Treasurer in 2023. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Trpkovski was a
Senior Financial Analyst at Citigroup from September 2011 to May 2013, and prior to that he spent six years at Johnson Controls in a variety
of roles of Engineering and Finance. Mr. Trpkovski received his BSE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and MBA from the University
of Michigan. With respect to the disclosure required by Item 401(d) of Regulation S-K, there are no family relationships between Mr. Trpkovski
and any of the Company’s directors or executive officers. With respect to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, there are no relationships
or related transactions between Mr. Trpkovski and the Company that would be required to be reported.

In connection with his promotion
to Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Trpkovski will receive an initial annual base salary of $450,000 and
will participate in the Company’s Annual Incentive Plan with a 2025 target bonus opportunity equal to 65% of base salary. Mr. Trpkovski
also will be eligible to participate in the Company’s Long-Term Incentive Plan (“ LTIP”) with a target award opportunity
equal to 160% of base salary, which for the 2025-2027 performance period will consist of time-vested stock units and performance stock
units, each weighted at 50% of the total LTIP award value. Mr. Trpkovski will be eligible to receive future equity grants when such
grants