Steel industry leadership - who is who 2023.

Steel Industry Management Who's Who.

Listing of top steel industry executives

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Name	Surname	Job title	Company	Country
Alexander	Abramov	Non-executive Chairman	Evraz plc	UK
Gokhan	Agca	Marketing Manager	Yildiz Demir Celik	Turkey
Joseph C	Alter	VP & General Counsel	AK Steel	USA
Neal	Anderson	CEO	Wood Mackenzie	UK
Patrick	Andre	Chief Executive	Vesuvius	UK
Brian	Aranha	Executive Vice President	ArcelorMittal	Luxembourg
Paolo	Argenta	Vice President - Upstream	Tenova	Argentina
Tatyana	Averchenkova	VP - Operational Efficiency	NLMK	Russia
Oleg	Bagrin	Chairman Strategic Planning	NLMK	Russia
Li	Baoqing	Director	Ansteel	China
Chris	Barrington	Secretary General	IIMA	UK
Collin	Bartlett	Director	Outotec	Canada
Eduardo	Bartolomeo	CEO	Vale	Brazil
Edwin	Basson	Director General	World Steel Association	Belgium
Phillip	Bell	President	Steel Manufacturers Assocn	USA
Antonio	Beltrame	Chairman & Group CEO	Beltrame Group	Italy
Carlo	Beltrame	Country Manager - Romania	Beltrame Group	Romania
Camilla	Benedetti	Deputy Chairman	Danieli	Italy
Jonas	Bergstrand	EVP Legal & Procurement	SSAB	Sweden
Vanisha Mittal	Bhatia	Chief Strategy Officer	Aperam	Luxembourg
Andrea	Bianchi	Chief Technology Officer	Arvedi	Italy
Yang	Bin	Director, Trading	Valin Steel	China
Brian K	Bishop	VP Carbon Steel Operations	AK Steel	USA
Stephanie S	Bisselberg	VP Human Resources	AK Steel	USA
Christian	Boehm	Product Manager	Primetals Technologies	Austria
Jon	Bolton	CEO	Liberty Steel	UK
Christine S	Breves	Chief Financial Officer	United States Steel	USA
Neil J	Bristow	Managing Consultant	H&W Worldwide Consulting	Australia
James E	Bruno	President	US Steel Kosice	Slovakia
Scott D	Buckiso	Chief Manufacturing Officer	United States Steel	USA
David B	Burritt	President & CEO	United States Steel	USA
Jorge	Caldeira	Consultant	Coalbiz	Brazil
Mario	Caldonazzo	Chief Executive Officer	Arvedi	Italy
Zhi Qiang	Cao	Chairman & General Manager	Hunan Valin Steel	China
Nicolas	Changeur	Chief Marketing Officer	Aperam	Luxembourg
Anil Kumar	Chaudhary	Chairman	Steel Authority of India	India
Tan	Chengxu	Chairman	Ansteel	China
Dmitry	Chernyshev	Head of Asset Development	Vyksa Steel	Russia
Guarav	Chhibar	Partner	Metal Edge Partners	USA
Sergey G	Chikalov	VP Technology	TMK	Russia
Jeong-Woo	Choi	Chief Executive Officer	POSCO	South Korea
Richard	Chriss	President	AIIS	USA
Josh	Croix	Chief Commercial Officer	Borusan Mannesmann Pipe	USA
Ugur	Dalbeler	CEO	Colakoglu Metalurji	Turkey
Giacomo Mareschi	Danieli	CEO	Danieli	Italy
Raju	Daswani	CEO	Fastmarkets	UK
Douglas	Dawson	CEO	Liberty Industries	UK
Jefferson	de Paula	Executive Vice President	ArcelorMittal	Luxembourg
Chen	Derong	Chairman of the Board	Baowu Steel Group	China
Timoteo	di Maulo	Chief Executive Officer	Aperam	Luxembourg
Mark	Eames	Strategic Technical Adviser	Magnetite Mines	Australia
Axel	Eggert	Director General	Eurofer	Belgium
Alexey	Egorov	Senior VP - Communications	Severstal	Russia
Philipp	Englin	Chief Executive Officer	World Steel Dynamics	USA
Suleyman Savas	Erdem	Chairman	Erdemir Group	Turkey
Natalya	Eremina	Chair of Management Board	Vyksa Steel	Russia
Grigory	Fedorishin	President	NLMK	Russia
Renee S	Filiatrout	VP External Relations	AK Steel	USA
Jeremy	Flack	CEO	Flack Global Metals	USA
Hakan	Folin	CFO	SSAB	Sweden
John D	Foster	President	Kurt Orban Partners	USA
Paul	Francis	CEO	Liberty Commodities	UK
Christina	Friborg	EVP Sustainability	SSAB	Sweden
Alexander	Frolov	Chief Executive Officer	Evraz plc	UK
Richard L	Fruehauf	Senior VP Strategy Planning	United States Steel	USA
Nikolai	Gagarin	Member of Audit Committee	NLMK	Russia
Elizabeth	Gaines	Chief Executive Officer	Fortescue Metals Group	Australia
Li	Ganpo	Chairman	Jingye Group	China
Chris	Graham	Senior VP - Manufacturing	Steel Dynamics, Inc	USA
Pierre-Jean	Guittet	FeCr & Molybdenum Buyer	ArcelorMittal Sourcing	Luxembourg
Sanjeev Kumar	Gupta	Executive Chairman	Liberty House Group	UK
Bernard	Hallemans	Chief Operating Officer	Aperam	Luxembourg
Eiji	Hashimoto	President	Nippon Steel	Japan
Mike	Henry	Chief Executive Officer	BHP	Australia
Ming	Henry	Senior Consulting Manager	Wood Mackenzie	UK
Quentin	Hill	Managing Director	Carpentaria Resources	Australia
Etsuro	Hirai	Chief Technology Officer	Primetals Technologies	UK
James D	Hoffman	President & CEO	Reliance Steel & Aluminium	USA
Duane D	Holloway	Senior VP & General Counsel	United States Steel	USA
Maximilian	Hoven	Project Manager	DMT GmbH & Co	Germany
Olavi	Huhtala	EVP Europe	SSAB	Sweden
Blake	Hurtik	Editor	Argus Media	USA
Satoru	Iijima	Chief Executive Officer	Primetals Technologies	UK
Sandeep	Jalan	Chief Financial Officer	Aperam	Luxembourg
Sanjay	Jayram	Executive Vice President	JSW Steel	India
Sajjan	Jindal	Chairman & MD	JSW Steel	India
Andre Bier Gerdau	Johannpeter	Executive Vice Chairman	Gerdau	Brazil
Claudio	Johannpeter	President	Gerdau	Brazil
Guilherme Chagas	Johannpeter	Vice President	Gerdau	Brazil
Pei	Kai	Chief Iron Ore Trader	Unicore Resources Pte	Singapore
Koji	Kakigi	President & CEO	JFE Steel Corporation	Japan
Hak Seo	Kang	President & CEO	Hyundai Steel	South Korea
Peter	Kerr	CEO	Mount Gibson Iron Limited	Australia
Mesut	Keyfli	General Manager	Isdemir	Turkey
Sabri	Kilic	Executive VP Operations	Isdemir	Turkey
Mark A	Kirkbride	CEO	West Cumbria Mining Ltd	UK
Paul	Kirkpatrick	VP & General Counsel	CMC	USA
Vakhtang	Kocharov	Director	Metalloinvest	Russia
Ingomar	Kohler	Consultant	PROCOMCO	Germany
Ines	Kolmsee	CEO Services & Solutions	Aperam	Luxembourg
Igor V	Korytko	Chairman of Board	TMK	Russia
Andrzej M	Kotas	Managing Director	MCI	UK
Vladimir	Kozlov	Senior VP - Security	Severstal	Russia
Boris	Krasnozhenov	Metals and Mining Analyst	Alfa Bank	Russia
Andre	Kremer	Chief Technology Officer	Paul Wurth	Luxembourg
Sergei	Krivokhizhin	Chief Commodity Analyst	Eurasian Resources Group	Luxembourg
Joanna	Kuhn-Gajdzik	Senior Process Engineer	ThyssenKrupp Ind Solutions	Germany
Alexey	Kulichenko	Chief Financial Officer	Severstal	Russia
Yevgeniy	Kuzmich	Head of Marketing	Byelorussian Steel Works	Belarus
Alexey Yu	Kuzmin	Head of Sales	Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel	Russia
Maria	Langberg	EVP Communications	SSAB	Sweden
Paul	Lawrence	VP & CFO	CMC	USA
Edward	Lehner	President & CEO	Ryerson Holdings, Inc	USA
Karla R	Lewis	Senior Executive VP	Reliance Steel & Aluminium	USA
Greg	Lilleyman	Chief Operating Officer	Fortescue Metals Group	Australia
Martin	Lindqvist	President & CEO	SSAB	Sweden
Vladimir	Lisin	Chairman of the Board	NLMK	Russia
Maksym	Mamon	Head of Marketing	Evraz East Metals	Switzerland
Antonio	Marcegaglia	CEO	Marcegaglia	Italy
Douglas R	Matthews	Commercial Officer	United States Steel	USA
John	McDonough	Chairman	Vesuvius	UK
Carlos	Medeiros	Director, Operations	Vale	Brazil
Barry	Melnkovic	Human Resources Officer	United States Steel	USA
Mark	Millett	President & CEO	Steel Dynamics, Inc	USA
Alexander	Mironenko	CEO	Zaporizhstal	Ukraine
Lakshmi	Mittal	Chairman & CEO	ArcelorMittal	Luxembourg
Aditya	Mittal	President & Group CFO	ArcelorMittal	Luxembourg
Markus	Moll	Managing Director	SMR GmbH	Germany
Soma	Mondal	Commercial Director	Steel Authority of India	India
Alexey	Mordashov	Chairman of the Board	Severstal	Russia
Kirk	Murray	VP and General Manager	SeAH Steel	USA
Thachat V	Narendran	Chief Executive Officer	Tata Steel Limited	India
Sergei A	Nenashev	Commercial Director	Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel	Russia
Chris	Newman	Senior Editor	Argus Media	Singapore
Roger K	Newport	Chief Executive Officer	AK Steel	USA
Dmitrij	Nikolayenko	Sales Director	Metinvest Holding	Ukraine
Maria V	Nikulina	Head of Financial Resources	Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel	Russia
Vladimir B	Oborsky	Senior VP	TMK	Russia
Geoff	O'Donnell	Manager Tubular Products	Wheatland Tube	USA
Toker	Ozcan	Deputy Chairman & MD	Erdemir Group	Turkey
Ersun	Ozdemirel	Export Manager	Borcelik	Turkey
John	Packard	President & CEO	Steel Market Update	USA
David	Pearson	CEO & Founder	Pearson Coal Petrography	Canada
Mehmet	Pehlivan	Executive VP Finance	Isdemir	Turkey
Martin	Pei	Executive VP & CTO	SSAB	Sweden
Bill	Penn	Blast Furnace Expert	Ferrousity Limitd	UK
Alexandre	Pereira	Director Business Support	Vale	Brazil
Tigran I	Petrosyan	Chief Financial Officer	TMK	Russia
Luciano Siani	Pires	Director, Finance	Vale	Brazil
Enrico	Plazzogna	EVP Sales	Danieli	Italy
Vyacheslav V	Popkov	Chief Engineer	TMK	Russia
Tracy L	Porter	Executive VP & COO	CMC	USA
Andrey	Pupchenko	Deputy Managing Director	Metal Expert	Ukraine
Glenn	Pushis	Senior VP - Long Products	Steel Dynamics, Inc	USA
Harinand	Rai	Technical Director	Steel Authority of India	India
Victor	Rashnikov	Chairman of the Board	Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel	Russia
Georges	Rassel	Chief Operations Officer	Paul Wurth	Luxembourg
Roberto	Re	Director	Metinvest Europe	Italy
Matthew	Reed	COO Mining	SIMEC Mining	Australia
Kirk W	Reich	President & COO	AK Steel	USA
Colin	Richardson	Steel Editor	Argus Media	UK
Russ	Rinn	Exec VP - Metals Recycling	Steel Dynamics, Inc	USA
Agnes	Ritter	Chief Technical Officer	Severstal	Russia
Paolo	Rocca	President & CEO	Techint Group	Argentina
Dean	Rougas	Executive Vice-president	Benteler Steel & Tube	USA
Larry	Runner	Vice President	Arch Coal, Inc	USA
Michael P	Salamon	President & CEO	Specialty Steel Works Inc	USA
Ramy	Saleh	Chief Development Officer	El Marakby Steel	Egypt
Charles	Schmitt	EVP Americas	SSAB	Sweden
Peter	Schraut	Chief Financial Officer	Primetals Technologies	UK
Huub	Schulte	Works Engineer - Coke & Gas	Tata Steel Europe	Netherlands
Alessandro	Sciamarelli	Senior Manager - Economics	Eurofer	Belgium
Dmitrij	Scuka	Chief Executive Officer	Vitkovice Steel	Czechia
Amit	Sen	Finance Director	Steel Authority of India	India
Michael P	Shanley	Senior VP Operations	Reliance Steel & Aluminium	USA
Hassan	Shashaa	COO	Emirates Steel	UAE
Stanislav	Shekshnia	Chairman - Human Resources	NLMK	Russia
Alexander	Shevelev	CEO	Severstal	Russia
Pavel	Shilyaev	CEO	Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel	Russia
Kosei	Shindo	Chairman	Nippon Steel	Japan
Julie	Shuttleworth	Deputy CEO	Fortescue Metals Group	Australia
Johnny	Sjostrom	EVP Special Steels	SSAB	Sweden
Barbara R	Smith	President & CEO	CMC	USA
Aleksander	Sobolewski	Director	Inst Chem Processing Coal	Poland
Marc	Solvi	Chief Executive Officer	Paul Wurth	Luxembourg
Choong Sik	Song	Head of Finance	Hyundai Steel	South Korea
Jan	Soonius	Managing Director	HeatTeQ	Netherlands
Atul	Srivastava	Director of Personnel	Steel Authority of India	India
Gareth	Stace	Director General	UK Steel Association	UK
Eduard	Stepantsov	Head of Commercial Dept	Vyksa Steel	Russia
Viktor	Stiskala	Metallurgy Manager	ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe	Germany
Ivan	Streshinsky	Chairman	Metalloinvest	Russia
Viktor	Stromberg	EVP Digitalisation	SSAB	Sweden
Dave	Sumoski	EVP, Bar Products	Nucor Corporation	USA
David	Sun	Managing Director	Sinosteel Australia Pty Ltd	Australia
Andrey	Syedykh	Economist	Metal Expert	Ukraine
Shinji	Tanimoto	Executive Vice PResident	Nippon Steel	Japan
Didem	Taskiran	Sales Manager	Colakoglu Metalurji	Turkey
Anastasiya	Taturulieva	Chief Marketing Officer	ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih	Ukraine
Leon	Topalian	President & COO	Nucor Corporation	USA
David	Trafford	CEO	CRU Group	UK
Alessandro	Trivillin	CEO	Danieli	Italy
Jim	Truman	Director - Met Coal Markets	Wood Mackenzie	USA
Bernardo	Velazquez	Chairman	ISSF	Belgium
Andreas	Viehbock	Senior VP - Casting & ESP	Primetals	UK
Rodrigo Alvarenga	Vilela	Chief Executive Officer	Samarco	Brazil
Evgenii	Volkov	Ironmaking Expert	Severstal	Russia
Frank	Wagener	Chief Admin Officer	Paul Wurth	Luxembourg
Theresa	Wagler	Executive VP & CFO	Steel Dynamics, Inc	USA
Roger	Walburn	General Manager	NLMK	USA
Stephen	Weaver	VP Human Resources	CMC	USA
Ian	Wells	Chief Financial Officer	Fortescue Metals Group	Australia
Yu	Yong	Chairman	HBIS Group	China
Yu Cheol	Yoo	Vice Chairman & CEO	Hyundai Steel	South Korea
Guy	Young	Chief Financial Officer	Vesuvius	UK
Dai	Zhihao	Director	Ansteel	China

The who's who list above covers current management positions in international steel sector leadership and executive roles as at Q1 2023.

The industry coverage includes iron and steelmaking including upstream iron ore, downstream processing / product distribution, ferroalloys supply and the production of other selected metals.

Please let us know of any significant errors and / or omissions. Thank you.

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