Before he became Fluor’s CEO, Jim Breuer spent half his career on assignments outside the United States. His next assignment is to turn that accumulated experience into growth that survives contact with a construction site.

At Western Magnesium, Sam Ataya has spent years connecting capital, customers and a new production process. His ambition is an American supply of magnesium; his task is turning pilot results into a business that can deliver it.

He spent a decade keeping Alcoa’s financial score. Now Bill Oplinger is putting his engineering and operating experience behind a larger bet on the journey from mine to metal.